Vaibhashika

We have seen that a revealing form of speech is: A pleasing or unpleasing sound that, as a platform for words, is communicative of a sentient being and that has as its cause the great elements of the lips and tongue (parts of the body-sensors) that are appropriated by a...

Karmic impulses of the body and speech include both revealing forms and nonrevealing forms. What are nonrevealing forms and what are their characteristic properties? Nonrevealing Forms Are Exclusively Constructive or Destructive  Vasubandhu affirms in A Treasure House of...

In the previous part of this series, we saw that: Unlike revealing forms, nonrevealing forms are not made of particles and so do not depend for their existence on themselves having subparticles of the four types of great elements as their components.  Being nonmaterial,...

What are further properties of nonrevealing forms? Nonrevealing Forms Are Not Conjoined with the Great Elements of the Body Vasubandhu states in A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge, Put in Verses (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa, Skt....

Let us look more closely at the type of nonrevealing form that a pratimoksha vowed restraint (so-sor thar-pa’i sdom-pa, Skt. prātimokṣasaṃvara) is. There Is Only One Nonrevealing Form for All the Branches of a Pratimoksha Vowed Restraint  Vasubandhu adds further detail about...

Three Main Types of Nonrevealing Forms Vasubandhu states in A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge, Put in Verses (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa, Skt. Abhidharmakośa-kārikā) (IV.13) (Gretil ed., Derge Tengyur vol. 104, 11A): Nonrevealing (forms) are to...

Obtaining the Nonrevealing Form of a Vowed Restraint Vasubandhu states in A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge, Put in Verses (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa, Skt. Abhidharmakośa-kārikā) (IV.26cd) (Gretil ed., Derge Tengyur vol. 140, 11A):  What is...

Relinquishing Nonrevealing Forms of Vowed Restraints Vasubandhu explains how the nonrevealing form of a vowed restraint is relinquished in A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge, Put in Verses (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa, Skt. Abhidharmakośa-kārikā)...

Vaibhashika and Sautrantika definitions and presentations of the two truths and their modes of existence, as well as of self-sufficiently knowable and imputedly knowable phenomena.

A comparison of the Vaibhashika, Chittamatra and Prasangika presentations of tainted phenomena, which perpetuate samsara, and untainted ones, which do not extend it.