Arthaviniscaya Sutra


The Arthaviniścaya Sūtra 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.
A commentary was written on this text, by one Vīryaśrīdatta, known as the Arthaviniścaya-sūtra-nibandhana. A separate commentary is preserved in Tibetan, the Artha-viniscaya-tika
Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese versions have survived. Tibetan version is titled དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ and can be found in Kanjur.

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