About Abhidharmakosha

A Buddhist text of the 4th-5th century composed by the scholar Vasubandhu. Detailed explanations of Buddhist cosmology serve as the basis for the painting subjects Wheel of Life, Mount Meru Offering (mandala) and the Rebirth Game.

THE TWIN TRUTHS

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2018

Dharma sadiksha

After reading THE BUDDHA’S WAY OF VIRTUE we will go through "The Twin Truths". For the proper understanding of Buddhism, these opening stanzas are all-important. One of the Buddha's key-thoughts was what modern psychologists call the "law of apperception": the value of things depends upon our attitude to them. Part of Gautama's work of reform was a "transvaluation of values," a shifting of emphasis; and, like the Stoics, he taught the indifference of the things .