Seventy-five dharmas of the Abhidharma-kosha

The Abhidharma-kosha identifies seventy-five dharmas (elements) that the Sarvāstivāda school "held were substantially existent (dravyasat) and endowed with intrinsic nature (svabhava)".Template:Buswell inline These are:Template:Princeton inlineTemplate:SfnTemplate:Refn

• the five sense faculties,
• the five sense objects,
• avijñaptirūpa - nonmanifest materiality (or "imperceptible forms"),
• mind (citta),
• forty-six concomittant mental factors (caitta),
• fourteen non-concurrent formations (aka "conditioned forces dissociated from thought" (Buswell) or "elements neither substantial forms nor mental fuctions" (Goodman)) (citta-viprayukta-samskara), and
• three unconditioned factors (or "non-created elements") (asamskrta-dharma)

Three unconditioned factors

The three unconditioned factors identified in the Abhidharma-kosha are:

1. space, akasa
2. extinction through intellectual power, pratisamkhya-nirodha
3. extinction due to lack of a productive cause, apratisamkhya-nirodha

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