The Abhidharma-samuccaya is a systemic explication of the Abhidharma teaching of all core principles of Buddhism. It is one of the important sourcebooks of the Yogacara and Vijnanavada schools. The treatise contains two divisions with four sections in each, is a distillation of the larger contents of the same two divisions of the voluminous Yogacarabhumi-sastra. A large part of the contents illuminates also teachings common to the Sravakayana and Pratyekabuddhayana, just when it explains principles that apply to Bodhisattvas. The text analyses the three classes of phenomena, the thirty-seven requisite factors of enlightenment, full scope of the mental factors, insight meditation and so on, with many different ways to examine them, to efficaciously apply them to practice.

Abhidharma Manual of The Abhidharma-Samuccaya of Yogacara School, P. B. Tan, Independently published, Paperback, 300 pages, $30.00

P. B. Tan is from Kuching, a beautiful town in the post British colonial state of Sarawak, which is located in Borneo. He graduated with a Master Degree in Buddhist Philosophy in 2015 from the International Buddhist College (IBC) in Thailand. He has completed his research into the canon of the Theravada Abhidhammapitaka, altogether has taken him five straight years. Currently, he is working on translation and exposition for a few Mahayana sutras beginning from 2021, and is scheduled to complete by the Christmas of 2025. After that he would proceed to complete translations with commentaries for the remaining five more Abhidharma literatures of primarily the Yogacara School, with the last one being 100 fascicles of the Yogacarabhumi-sastra.