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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVasubandhu

Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

Abhidharmakosabhasyam

by Vasubandhu · Louis de La Vallée Poussin (French trans.); Leo M. Pruden (English trans.)

An English version, via La Vallée Poussin's French translation, of Vasubandhu's Treasury of Abhidharma and its auto-commentary, composed around the fourth or fifth century. Its chapter on the world is the classic systematic statement of Buddhist cosmology.

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