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俱舍論實義疏

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Text ID
KR6l0030
Date
450–550

Jùshě Lùn Shíyì Shū 俱舍論實義疏

Abhidharmakośa-ṭīkā-tattvārtha: Commentary on the True Meaning of the Abhidharmakośa by 安慧 (造)

About the work

The Jùshě Lùn Shíyì Shū 俱舍論實義疏 (Skt. Abhidharmakośa-ṭīkā-tattvārtha; CBETA T29n1561) is a 5-juan Chinese-language commentary on Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakośa (KR6l0023), attributed to the Indian Yogācāra master Sthiramati 尊者悉地羅末底 (安慧, Chinese 安惠/安慧). The text’s opening attribution reads “尊者悉地羅末底造(唐言安惠)” — “composed by the venerable Sthiramati (rendered in Chinese as Ānhuì).” The catalog lists only CBETA and 【大】 as editions, with no dynasty and no translator. The translator’s identity and the date of translation are unknown; it may represent a lost Tang or pre-Tang transmission.

Prefaces

The text opens with an eight-line invocatory verse (praṇidhāna), followed immediately by the commentary proper on 分別界品第一 with no translator’s preface or colophon preserved.

Abstract

Sthiramati 安慧 (Skt. Sthiramati “Fixed Wisdom”; Chinese 安慧 Ānhuì / 安惠 Ānhuì; c. late 5th–early 6th century CE) was a major Yogācāra philosopher of the post-Vasubandhu period, active in Valabhī (伐臘毗國, western India). He was a student of 德慧 Guṇamati and is characterized as a contemporary and predecessor of 護法 (Dharmapāla, 530–561 CE) in the Chéngyùshí lùn shùjì 成唯識論述記 (KR6n0026). He composed commentaries on Vasubandhu’s works in both the Abhidharma and Yogācāra traditions, including a major commentary on the Trimśikā (《唯識三十頌釋論》) and the present commentary on the Kośa.

The present text is a partial or compressed commentary (ṭīkā) on the Kośa, covering the text chapter by chapter. It reflects Sthiramati’s Yogācāra perspective — treating the Kośa from within the intellectual framework later elaborated in the Madhyānta-vibhāga and Trimśikā traditions — in contrast to the strictly Vaibhāṣika reading favored by the Kaśmīri Sarvāstivādins. A Tibetan version of Sthiramati’s Kośa commentary survives in the Tengyur (Tōhoku 4122). The Chinese rendering is incomplete and its translation history uncertain.

Translations and research

  • No substantial secondary literature on this specific Chinese text located.
  • For Sthiramati’s broader corpus, see: Schmithausen, Lambert. Ālayavijñāna: On the Origin and the Early Development of a Central Concept of Yogācāra Philosophy. Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1987.

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