DOI 10.30792/2949-5768-2025-10-20-34
ANALYSIS OF SOME CONCEPTS OF ABHIDHARMAKOSAKARIKA IN THE HISTORICAL SOURCE TEXTS OF MONGOLIAN BUDDHISM
Sukhbaatar Demberel ‒ Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, National University of Mongolia.
The article concerns with such a historical source on the spread of Buddhism as the Abhidharmakosakarika, composed by the well-known Indian philosopher Vasubandhu.The cosmological ideas in Abhidharmakosakarika include the location, directions, and shapes of the continents, the unique characteristics of the body and the age of the living beings there, the ideology and content of the Buddhist teachings, the translation process and date of Abhidharmakosakarika into the Mongolian language, and the honoring of Mongolian kings as Chakravartin kings, as quoted in the sources mentioned above. The paper aims to analyze these concepts and discuss how the influence of Abhidharmakosakarika impacted Mongolian Buddhist historiography.
