Entrance Into the Abhidharma: Skandila's Abhidharmāvatāra (3rd revised edition)
Author: Venerable Professor K L Dhammajoti
Publisher: The Buddha-Dharma Centre of Hong Kong
(Hong Kong, 2024). pp. 375++ ISBN: 978-988-76863-1-6

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Foreword
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Abbreviations

Part I: Introduction
1. Abhidharmāvatāra as a Sarvāstivāda manual
2. The schematic organization of Avatāra
3. The Chinese and Tibetan versions, and the present English translation
4 The development of the Sarvāstivāda manuals
5. The Ābhidharmikas and the other subgroups within the Sarvāstivāda
6. Avatāra on the avijñapti
7. Avatāra on the caitasikas
8. Avatāra on the citta-viprayukta-saṃskāras
Appendix: Translation of Sanskrit and Tibetan passages on jīvitendriya, sabhāgatā, vedanā and saṃjñā, cited in Part I §7 and §8
9. Avatāra and Ny (and SPrŚ)
10. Avatāra on the characteristics of the saṃskṛta dharmas
11. The date, authorship and affiliation of Avatāra

Part II: The English Translation
Preliminaries
0. Enumeration of the eight padārtha
I. The Category of Matter (rūpa-padārtha)
Unmanifest or non-information matter (avijñapti-rūpa)
The acquisition and relinquishment of the three kinds of non-information
The characteristics of dharmas
II. The Category of Sensation (vedanā-padārtha)
III. The Category of Ideation (saṃjñā-padārtha)
IV. The Category of Conditionings (saṃskāra-padārtha)
IVa. The Conjoined Conditionings (citta-saṃprayukta-saṃskāra)
The spheres, planes of existence, births, stages
The knowledges and receptivities
The abandonment of defilement and spiritual attainment
IVb. Conditionings disjoined from the mind (cittaviprayukta-saṃskāra)
The nature of the non-acquisitions
The ideationless attainment (asaṃjñi-samāpatti)
The cessation attainment (nirodha-samāpatti)
The ideationlessness (āsaṃjñika)
The vital faculty (jīvitendriya)
Group-homogeneity (nikāya-sabhāgatā)
The four characteristics of the conditioned dharmas
The groups of words (nāma), phrases (pada), syllables (vyañjana)
V. The Category of Consciousness (vijñāna-padārtha)
The six causes, the five fruits and the four conditions
VI. The Category of Space (ākāśa-padārtha)
VII. The Category of the Cessation through Deliberation (pratisaṃkhyā-nirodha-padārtha)
VIII. The Category of the Cessation Independent of Deliberation (apratisaṃkhyā-nirodha-padārtha)
IX. Concluding remarks

Part III: The Tibetan and Chinese Texts
Selected Bibliography
Sanskrit-Tibetan-Chinese-English Glossary

Index