Darsanamarga Section Of Abhidharmasamuccaya And Its Interpretation By Tibetan Commentators

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Darśanamārga section of the Abhidharmasamuccaya
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sages favouring such an interpretation, 42 but they are just another heterogeneous element not applicable to the present passage which by choosing the merely formal distinction of "summary" and "detailed" seems to preclude any material distinction.
According to another model, the darśanamārga proper consists in the Mahāyānist uniform awareness of True Reality (tathatā, de búin ñid), and the "hinayānist" type of darśanamārga is nothing but a subsequent analytical conceptualization. This model, too, is hardly applicable to the As because in another passage of this text** it is clearly stated that not only this subsequent conceptualization but also the darśanamārga proper consists of 16 moments.
A further model tries to cope with the difficulties by distributing the different characterizations of the darśanamārga to different levels of establishing Truth.45 But this model, too, can hardly be intended by the merely formal distinction of "summary" and "detailed" definitions in the As.. This distinction leaves us with the result that the author of the AS has, at least in the present context and perhaps with the exception of the reinterpretation of the "Hinayānist" detailed description, confined himself to collecting and arranging heterogeneous traditional materials without achieving, or even attempting, doctrinal consistency. This task was, as it were, left to the commentators.
The Abhidharma sa mucca y a bhāsya (ASB), goes beyond the AS mainly in two ways:
Firstly, it shows a tendency towards assimilating the content of the four characterizations to one another. Of primary importance in this context is its interpretation of the fourth description, i.e. of the darśanamārga in 16 moments: The ASBh takes the first moment of each set of four as a perceptual comprehension not of the respective Truth itself
refer the reader to the prospective publication announced in n. 4a 42 cp. esp. As 94,7ff. (1.8: prativedhaviseșah!). *' E.g. Y, Zi 302b4ff.; 'i 15a5ff.; cp. also Zi 73a5ff. ** AS 93, 9ff. = AS131a5f.: tatt vābhisamayah katamah gan mthon ba'i lam gyi sems kyi
skad cig bcu drug po dag thob pa'o ( *yah şodaśadarśanamārgacittakşaņapratilambhah) mthon ba'i lam la ni satya vyavasthāpanāny abhisamayāntikāni samvrtijñānāni pratila
bhate, na tu sammukhikaroti (op. ASBH 122,18ff.). 45 Yt Zi 123b6 (ff.); cp. Bu ston 578,6ff.