The Compendium of Abhidharma.
The Abhidharmasamuccaya — "Compendium of Abhidharma" — is Asaṅga's own systematic re-working of Abhidharma scholasticism through a Yogācāra lens: the five aggregates, elements, and sense fields analyzed in exhaustive detail, the four noble truths worked out at treatise-length, and the treatise's own closing chapters on the Dharma, on attainment, and on the rules of formal debate. This page is the entrance for reading it part by part, following the treatise's own two-part structure — 本事分, the foundations, and 決擇分, their detailed determination.
How to read this collection
This is the largest single treatise on this site — Asaṅga's own attempt to gather the entire field of Mahāyāna Abhidharma into one systematic work. We keep the treatise's own structure rather than smoothing it away: the foundations chapter (本事分) working through the aggregates, elements, and sense fields in full technical detail, followed by the determination chapter (決擇分), which takes up the four noble truths, the Dharma, attainment, and formal debate each in turn.
Our commentary guide is the Abhidharmasamuccayavyākhyā (大乘阿毘達磨雜集論), attributed to Sthiramati and completed by Jinaputra, translated into Chinese by the same Xuánzàng, so terminology stays aligned with the root text throughout.
What each part page includes
- The Chinese source text beside our English translation.
- Reading notes drawn from Sthiramati and Jinaputra's commentary.
- A running glossary so terminology stays consistent across all 131 parts, and with the site's other Yogācāra pages.
The Treatise's Own Structure
Asaṅga divides the whole work into two parts: 本事分, laying out the foundations, and 決擇分, determining them in far greater technical detail. The determination chapter is itself four further chapters long — 諦品 on the four noble truths, 法品 on the Dharma, 得品 on attainment, and 論議品 on formal debate.
Read by Part
All 131 parts, grouped by the treatise's own sections. Every part links to the full bilingual translation with reading notes.
五蘊 · The Five Aggregates and Their Analysis (本事分)
諦品 · The Four Noble Truths
法品 · The Chapter on the Dharma
得品 · The Chapter on Attainment
論議品 · The Chapter on Formal Debate
Translation Notes
Recurring terms, kept consistent across all 131 parts, and matched to the site's other Yogācāra pages where the same term appears. See also this site's note on translation method.