Abhidharma-samuccaya


The Abhidharma-samuccaya is a Buddhist text composed by Asanga. The Abhidharma-samuccaya is a complete and systematic account of the abhidharma.
According to Traleg Rinpoche, the Abhidharma-samuccaya is one of Asanga's most essential texts and also one of the most psychologically oriented. It provides a framework, as well as a general pattern, as to how a practitioner is to follow the path, develop oneself and finally attain Buddhahood. It presents the path according to the Yogachara school of Mahayana Buddhism.

Mental factors

The second chapter of this text enumerates fifty-one mental factors, divided into the following categories:
Contemporary scholar Achim Bayer asserts that the thought of different sections of the Abhidharma-samuccaya might be heterogenous. For example, the important term ālayavijñāna appears not more than six times, with all six
occurrences in the "Lakṣaṇasamuccaya" section, i.e. within in the first third of the work.