Vasubandhu, <i>Abhidharmakośa</i> (<i>Encyclopaedia of Abhidharma</i>): The Prophetical Fragment of Section "Samādhi-nirdeśa" ("Teaching on Meditation") Preface, Translation from Sanskrit and Commentary by H.P. Ostrovskaya
Prophecies about the inevitable extinction of the Buddha’s teaching were made even in the earliest canonical texts and variously repeated over centuries, exerting serious ideological influence on the evolution of Buddhism. The present paper contains a commented translation of the prophetical fragment of Sanskrit text of “Samādhi-nirdeśa” from the eighth section of the Encyclopaedia of Abhi- dharma ( Abhidharmakośa ) ascribed to the Buddhist thinker Vasubandhu (4th-5th centuries). This is the first translation of the text, based on the edition: Abhidharmakośabhāṣya. Ed. by P. Pradhan. Poona, 1967, 459-460.