"Abidharma's Theory of Righteousness"

…He was born in Kashmir, North India, around the 5th century, and became a disciple of Go-nyū and studied the Mahābhāsāsasāstra. When Vasubandhu wrote the Abhidharma-Kashāstra, criticizing the Sarvastivada school from the standpoint of the Saṇḍarītāstra, he spent 12 years writing a refutation book, the Abhidharma-Sūtra, 80 volumes (also called the Kashāsāstra), and then attempted to meet Vasubandhu in person with several students to refute it. However, Vasubandhu avoided the confrontation and traveled to Central India, so the many wise men followed him to Central India, but on the way he fell ill and died near the country of Matītīfura (present-day Madāwar). …

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…5世紀ごろ北インドのカシミールに生まれ，悟入の弟子となって《大毘婆沙論》を研究した。世親が経量部（きようりようぶ）の立場から説一切有部を批判しつつ《阿毘達磨俱舎論》を著すと，12年を費やして反論の書《阿毘達磨順正理論》80巻(《俱舎雹論（くしやばくろん）》ともいう)を書き，さらに，学徒数名と共に世親に直接会って反論しようとした。しかし，世親は対決を避け中インドへと旅立ったため，衆賢らもまた彼を追って中インドへ向かったが，途中，秣底補羅（まつていふら）国(現在のマダーワル)あたりで病に倒れ没したという。…

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