The Discourse Giving The Analysis of the Topics
Artha-Viniścaya-Sūtram
Translated by Ānandajoti Bhikkhu
Introduction
This was probably then expanded with other basic factors and explanations, especially the categories concerning the Buddha near the end of the text 22-27, until it achieved something like its present size, at which point standard introductions and endings were added on to make it more like a normal sūtra.
If we accept this explanation of the growth of the work, then we can speculate that we are dealing with three or four separate sections. After the introduction we get some standard doctrinal categories, sections 1-7 (Five Components, Five Components that provide Fuel for Attachment, Eighteen Elements, Twelve Spheres, Twelve Factors of Conditional Origination, The Four Noble Truths, The Twenty-Two Faculties).
This is followed by the main meditation categories, 8-12 (Four Absorptions, Four Formless Attainments, Four Spiritual States, Four Ways of Practice, Four Cultivations of Concentration, Four Ways of Attending to Mindfulness).
We then have the sections that complete the Factors of Awakening, 14-19 (Four Right Abandonings, Four Paths to Spiritual Power, Five Faculties, Five Strengths, Seven Factors of Awakening, Noble Eightfold Path); and we continue with meditation sections 20 & 21 (Sixteen Modes of Mindfulness while Breathing, Four Factors of a Stream Enterer).
Analysis-of-the-Topics
