The present work provides the first complete annotated translation into English of the Chinese version of Dharmatrata’s fourth century is the of a series of expository treatises that summarised the Sarvastivada philosophy as it was prevailing in Bacteria and Gandhara and that were based on Dharmasresthin’s Abhidharmahrdaya. The next work in the series,
Bart Dessein. Samyuktabhidharma
hrdaya – Heart of Scholasticism with Miscellaneous Additions. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1998.