Arthaviniscaya Sutra

The Arthaviniścaya Sūtra ("Gathering the Meanings" or "Analysis of the topics") 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.[1]

A commentary was written on this text, by one Vīryaśrīdatta (770 CE), known as the Arthaviniścaya-sūtra-nibandhana.[2] A separate commentary is preserved in Tibetan, the Artha-viniscaya-tika (author unknown, Tibetan Tanjur. PTT, vol. 145.)[3][4]

Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese versions have survived.[5] Tibetan version is titled དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ and can be found in Kanjur (e.g. vol. 72 of Derge edition, text 17).[6]

Translations

• N. H. Samtani. The Arthaviniścaya-Sūtra, and its commentary, Nibandhana, written by Bhiksu Vīryaśridatta, Jayaswal Research Institute, 1971
• N. H. Samtani, Ānandajoti Bhikkhu. Artha-Viniścaya-Sūtram, The Discourse giving the Analysis of the Topics with additions, corrections and translation. (2016)

See also

• Abhidharma

Notes

1. Sujato, A history of mindfulness, How insight worsted tranquillity in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, Santipada
2. Reviewed by Edward Conze in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 106, Issue 1 January 1974 , p. 76
3. Skilling, Peter. TRANSLATING THE BUDDHA’S WORDS: SOME NOTES ON THE KANJUR TRANSLATION PROJECT. Nonthaburi, March 11, 2009
4. Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa, Alex Wayman. Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real: Buddhist Meditation and the Middle View, pg 494
5. Reviewed by Edward Conze in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 106, Issue 1 January 1974 , p. 76
6. http://www.thlib.org/encyclopedias/literary/canons/kt/catalog.php#cat=d/0318

External links

• Full translation on ancient-buddhist-texts.net