Abhidharmadipa with Vibhasaprabha Vrutti

SR No.: 004384
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P S Jaini
Publisher: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute
Publication Year: 1977
Total Pages: 660
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 12 MB

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IV SOME MAJOR CONTROVERSIES BETWEEN THE KOSAKARA AND THE DIPAKARA This struggle, stretching through several centuries of the history of Buddhism, between the Sautrantika and the Abhidharmika reaches its culmination in the Kosa-Bhashya and the Dipa-VIitti. The Dhammasangaai, Vibhanga and their Atthakathas reveal only the beginnings of these differences. It is not possible to say to what extent the seven Abhidharma Sastras of the Sarvastivada school opposed the Sautrantika doctrines. Their compilation perhaps led to the emergence of the Sautrantika as a distinct school. But it is certain that the Maha-Vibhasha, the encyclopaedic Commentary on the Juana-prasthana, which gave rise to the Vaibhashika school, contained opinions of several contemporary Sautrantika acharyas, notably of Kumarlata, Srilata, Dharmatrata and "Bhadanta". 1 The name Sautrantika, however, occurs only once in the Maha-Vibhasha." Instead, we find scores of references to Darshtantikas, whom Yasomitra describes as a section of the Sautrantika school.* Kumaralata is generally held to be the founder of this school. It is suggested that his followers were called darshtantika after his Dtishtanta-pankti. J. Przyluski connects the word doishtanta to doishti (Pali ditthi) in opposition to sutra (sruti) and maintains that the word Darshtantika was applied to the Sautrantika by the Vaibhashikas, as did the Mahayanists use the deprecatory term Hinayana to their opponents. In the Vaitti too they are called 'sthiti-bhagiya' and further abused as a kind of sakyas having a dog's 1 See J. Takakusu's article 'On the Abhidharma literature of the Sarvastivadin's, JPTS. 1905. 2 See LVPAk. Introduction, p. LII. 3 Darshtantikah Sautrantika-visesha ity arthah. Saku. p. 400, 4 See LVPAk. Introduction, p. LII, 5 Vide Ado. p. 47, note 4.