Kushashu

...A group of scholars who studied and lectured on various sutras and treatises, mainly Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa and its commentaries, and who passed them on from teacher to teacher. They were also called the Kusha group or the Sattva-ta school. In India and Tibet, the Kusha was actively studied and lectured on as a required subject in Buddhist doctrine, and in China it was translated into Chinese by Tripitaka Zhendi along with the Mahayana Sutra (566-567), and then retranslated by Tripitaka Xuanzang along with many other sutras of the Yogacara school (654). Since then, it has been studied and lectured on in the Yogacara and Hosso Yogacara schools, and several important commentaries have been produced.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…世親の《阿毘達磨俱舎論》(アビダルマコーシャAbhidharmakośa)およびその注疏を中心として諸経論を研究･講義し，師資相承する学僧たちの学団をいう。俱舎衆，薩婆多（サツバタ）宗ともよばれた。インドやチベットにおいて《俱舎論》は，仏教教理学の必修科目としてさかんに研究･講義され，中国においても真諦（しんだい）三蔵によって《摂大乗論（しようだいじようろん）》などとともに漢訳され(566‐567)，さらに玄奘（げんじよう）三蔵によって多数の唯識学系統の経論とともに再訳されて(654)以後，それぞれ摂論学派と法相唯識学派の学統において研究･講義され，いくつかの重要な注疏がつくられた。…

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