Kusha-shū (Buddhism)

The Kusha - Shuu (Japanese倶 舎 宗) was a school of Japanese Buddhism during the Nara period.

History

The Kusha shū was of Chitatsu or Chidatsu (智达) and Chitsu (智通), two students of Xuanzang or students of his students to 660, zong in the year 665 in Japan as a counterpart of the Chinese Jushe (Chinese倶 舍 宗pinyin Jùshè Zong, W.-G. Chii -she tsung ) introduced. The exact line of the dissemination of the teachings is historically unclear, often names mentioned in connection with it, however, are: ? Dosho ( 638-700 ;道 昭), JOE ( 644-714 ;定慧) and Gembō or Genbō ( -746 ;玄 昉 ).

Although the Kusha - Shuu is counted to the traditional six schools of Nara, she was never a separate institution. Their teachings were largely received as a preparation for the understanding of previously established Hosso shū. In the year 793 the Kusha - Shuu became an integral part of the Hosso shū and learned since then only academic reception.

Writings

Basic text of the Kusha - Shuu is the ( Abidatsuma ) Kusha - ron (阿 毗 达磨 倶 舎 论; German as " treasury of dogmatic theology "), a 651-654 prepared by Xuanzang translation of the Abhidharma - kosa ( bhāsyam ) of Vasubandhu. This is a highly systematic and very detailed rendering of the Abhidharma literature with particular attention to the respective positions of Sarvastivada and Sautrantika, where it Sarvastivada Although the most dedicated room, but mostly argumentative over to the side of the Sautrantika.

Teaching

The theme of the Kusha - ron is because of the amount of lessons that are developed in the first centuries back far before the Christian era, particularly extensive and includes, among other mythological cosmology, rules and regulations of meditation, the Buddhist monk communities concerning. By the end of the 18th century, it remained the standard glossary of Buddhist terms and concepts.

The philosophically important concepts in the Kusha - ron concern the fundamentals of existence, the analysis of a total of 75 factors of existence in five categories ( four conditional ( rupa, citta, citta samprayukta Samskara and citta viprayukta samskara ) and an unconditional ( asaṃskṛta dharma) ), the analysis of causality in six types of direct and four types of indirect causation, the eternal existence of the factors of existence in the three worlds (past, present and future) and the presentation of an atomic theory for the completion of gaps in the Dharma Categories methodology in the field of matter.

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