Arthaviniscaya Sutra


The Arthaviniścaya Sūtra is a Buddhist Abhidharma type work which shows Sautrāntika/Sarvāstivāda affiliation. It mostly consists of matrices or lists of key early Buddhist teachings such as the four satipatthanas and the stages of anapanasati.
A commentary was written on this text, by one Vīryaśrīdatta, known as the Arthaviniścaya-sūtra-nibandhana. A separate commentary is preserved in Tibetan, the Artha-viniscaya-tika
Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese versions have survived. Tibetan version is titled དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ and can be found in Kanjur. The sūtra was also translated twice into Chinese, once by Faxian in the tenth century, and later by Jin Zong Chi in the eleventh century.

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