Author(s)

Lin Zhu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seattle, 98195, Washington State, United States

Corresponding Author

Lin Zhu

ABSTRACT

The Abhisamayālaṅkāra encompasses eight topics. The four types of conceptual thoughts to be eliminated appear three times in the chapters on Omniscience and the Ultimate View, corresponding to the stages of the Path of Preparation, the Path of Seeing, and the Path of Meditation. These three paths all require the elimination of these conceptual thoughts. The Path of Accumulation and the end of the ten grounds, however, discuss the obstacles to be eliminated from different perspectives. Although other treatises extensively discuss the obstacles to be eliminated as the afflictive and cognitive obscurations, the four conceptual thoughts here are not separate from these two obscurations and can be fully subsumed within them. Moreover, establishing the obstacles to be eliminated in this way has a profound and unique necessity, which is a distinctive feature of the Abhisamayālaṅkāra.

KEYWORDS

Four conceptual thoughts; three times; afflictive obscurations; cognitive obscurations

CITE THIS PAPER

Lin Zhu. Four Conceptual Thoughts for Resolving Doctrinal Disputes in the Abhisamayālaṅkāra. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2026). Vol. 8, No.1, 57-61. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2026.080107.

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