Referring to the seventh chapter of the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya （AKBh）, I examine the background of the three terms modifying “cultivation” （abhyāsa） appearing in the proof of omniscience in the Tattvasaṃgrahapañjikā （TSP）. Four types of cultivation are discussed in the part of that chapter dealing with hetusaṃpad. Three of these four appear to form the background to the terms that modify “cultivation” in TSP’s proof of omniscience. While it is unclear whether the remaining type of cultivation refers to the same thing, I found a corresponding section in TSP’s proof.
Following hetusaṃpad, AKBh’s chapter 7 also discusses phalasaṃpad, and in that discussion again touches on the Buddha’s omniscience. TSP’s proof of omniscience is connected to the four types of cultivation.
In light of the above, TSP may have inherited a view of the omniscient similar to that found in AKBh’s discussion of hetusaṃpad and phalasaṃpad.
However, in this paper I was unable to clarify the difference between AKBh’s view of the omniscient and that of logico-epistemological texts by Buddhists other than Kamalaśīla.
