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Exposition of Scripture Toh 4373 — The Tengyur Treatise Collection
Context
Scripture Toh 4373 belongs to the Treatise Collection (Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya) of the Tengyur—a collection of important commentaries, treatises, and annotations in the Northern Mahayana tradition. The Tengyur is the second part of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon and contains more than 3,600 treatises by royal masters, Indian scholars, and Tibetan Buddhist scholars.
This text belongs to the field of Abhidharma—meaning the “Higher Dharma” or “Transcendent Dharma”—one of the three divisions of the Buddhist Tripiṭaka. Abhidharma focuses on the detailed analysis of mind, mental factors, matter (rūpa), and the cooperating laws of cause and effect, thereby establishing a profound understanding of the nature of phenomena and consciousness.
Main Content
Although the scripture’s title has not been fully published, according to the conventions of the Tengyur, Toh 4373 is an in-depth treatise or commentary concerning the psychological and philosophical dimensions of Buddhism. In the Northern tradition, such treatises commonly address essential themes: the classification of types of consciousness (viññāṇa-bhāga), the mechanisms by which the mind operates during cognition, and the relationship between the perceiving subject and the perceived object.
Advanced Abhidharma works in the Treatise Collection emphasize that all the phenomena we perceive—whether forms, sounds, odors, tastes, tangible objects, or ideas—are compounds of momentary causal factors and possess no independent “intrinsic nature” (anātman). Each moment of mind arises as the result of preceding conditions, and it is precisely this profound understanding that leads to liberation.
The scripture belongs to the Northern tradition and was therefore written and commented upon within the context of Tibetan Buddhist schools such as Gelug, Kagyu, Nyingma, and Sakya, all of which regard Abhidharma as a firm foundation for Mahayana and Vajrayana practice.
Practical Significance
The study of Abhidharma treatises such as Toh 4373 is not a purely theoretical exercise.
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