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The '''Abhidharma Mahavibhasha Shastra''' (Skt. ''abhidharma mahāvibhāṣā śāstram''; Tib. བྱེ་བྲག་བཤད་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''bye brag bshad mdzod chen mo'') — an [[abhidharma]] text said to be composed by five hundred [[arhat]]s, which summarizes the ''[[Seven treatises of abhidharma]]''. This text was studied by [[Vasubandhu]] and masterfully condensed into the ''[[Treasury of Abhidharma]]''.
The '''Abhidharma Mahavibhasha Shastra''' (Skt. ''abhidharma mahāvibhāṣā śāstram''; Tib. བྱེ་བྲག་བཤད་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''bye brag bshad mdzod chen mo'') — an [[abhidharma]] text said to be composed by five hundred [[arhat]]s, which summarizes the ''[[Seven treatises of abhidharma]]''. This text was studied by [[Vasubandhu]] and masterfully condensed into the ''[[Treasury of Abhidharma]]''.  
 
It is said to be the first shastra ever composed.<ref>Mipham Rinpoche, [[Kagyé Namshé]] </ref>
 
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Revision as of 04:12, 24 September 2018

The Abhidharma Mahavibhasha Shastra (Skt. abhidharma mahāvibhāṣā śāstram; Tib. བྱེ་བྲག་བཤད་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་, Wyl. bye brag bshad mdzod chen mo) — an abhidharma text said to be composed by five hundred arhats, which summarizes the Seven treatises of abhidharma. This text was studied by Vasubandhu and masterfully condensed into the Treasury of Abhidharma.

It is said to be the first shastra ever composed.[1]

Notes

  1. Mipham Rinpoche, Kagyé Namshé