Vasubandhu's Six-Steps of Breathing Meditation

The Abhidharmakośabhāṣya (Treasury of Metaphysics with
Self-Commentary) is a pivotal treatise on early Buddhist thought
composed around the 4th or 5th century by the Indian Buddhist
philosopher Vasubandhu. This work is a complete and systematic
account of the Abhidharma, and is the peak of scholarship in the
Fundamental Vehicle. It elucidates the Buddha’s teachings as
synthesized and interpreted by the early Buddhist Sarvāstivāda
school. Vasubandhu (4th to 5th century CE) was an influential
Buddhist monk and scholar from Gandhara or Central India. He was
a philosopher who wrote commentary on the Abhidharma, from the
perspectives of the Sarvastivada and Sautrāntika schools. After
his conversion to Mahayana Buddhism, along with his half-brother,
Asanga, he was also one of the main founders of the Yogacara
school. Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośakārikā ("Commentary on the
Treasury of the Abhidharma") is widely used in Tibetan and East
Asian Buddhism, as the major source for non-Mahayana Abhidharma
philosophy. Vasubandhu is one of the most influential thinkers in
the Indian Buddhist philosophical tradition. Because of their
association with Nalanda university, Vasubandhu and Asanga are
amongst the so-called Seventeen Nalanda Masters. In Jōdo Shinshū,
he is considered the Second Patriarch; in Chan Buddhism, he is
the 21st Patriarch.


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