Darsanamarga Section Of Abhidharmasamuccaya And Its Interpretation By Tibetan Commentators

SR No.: 269632
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Author: L Schmithausen
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with the bhāvanāmārga 72) and in using for them the same terms, is grouped by Bu ston under the heading of "positions to be established or affirmed" (gźag), along with the exposition of the AS itself but expressly set off from it as not forming part of the AS's own system. In another passage, by the way, Bu ston states that the system of the Śravakas, though not primarily and clearly set forth in the AS, is largely in agreement with [the doctrine of] this text.
73
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The three "summary" definitions of the AS are regarded by Bu ston as describing the nature (no bo) of the darśanamārga 75 (i.e. of the daŕsanamarga as a whole, and therefore of any of its moments), thus not at all as alternatives to the 16 moments theory.
For the third theory of the AS, this seems to imply that Bu ston understands it as not referring to three successive moments but to three aspects of the darśanamarga which would be included in each of the 16 moments.
Let me now return to the question which could not be answered in the case of the ASBh, viz. the question whether this harmonized structure. is meant to describe the darśanamarga of Śrāvakas, or Bodhisattvas, or both. Fortunately, Bu ston's commentary contains some pertinent remarks which suggest at least a tendency to consider the exposition of the darśanamarga in the AS as valid for a 11 vehicles, though Bu ston is obviously aware of the fact that the wording of most of the different elements of that exposition seems to fit one vehicle better than the
others.
valid
E.g., the wording of the 16 moments theory is, it is true, primarily śrāvakayānist, but Bu ston 76 asserts that it is also for the darśanamarga of Pratyek a buddhas and Bodhisattvas, provided that it is given some additional qualification: The AS does not, admittedly, mention any removal of the respective Obstacle to [knowing all] that has to be known (jñeyāvaraṇa, ses sgrib) but only speaks of the removal of the respective [Obstacle consisting in] Defilements
72 Abhidharmakośabhāṣya (Patna 1967) 352,19ff.; cp. Bu ston 579,6 and 585,1; Bo don
660,6ff.
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Bu ston 579,1 + 579,4: dgag gźag span gsum gyi gñis...
gñis pa la mdzod dan ran lugs
74 Bu ston 570,5: gźun 'dir dños su gsal bar mi 'byun yan ñan thos kyi rnam gźag phal cher de dan mthun te . Cp. also D.Seyfort Ruegg, La théorie du tathāgatagarbha et du gotra. Paris 1969, 69, n.2.
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Bu ston 580,3ff.
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Cp. also Sakya 222,5f.