Consider the following statements regarding the monumental philosophical text Abhidharmakosha composed by Acharya Vasubandhu:
1. It functions as a comprehensive summary of Sarvastivada doctrine while critically evaluating these views from the Sautrantika perspective.
2. It organizes the entire Buddhist phenomenology into specific categories known as Dharma-lakshana and analyzes the causal chain of mental states.

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Both statements are correct. The Abhidharmakosha is often called the encyclopedia of Abhidharma. Vasubandhu brilliantly summarized the Sarvastivada school scholasticism in eight chapters, but in his own auto-commentary (bhashya), he refuted them from the Sautrantika standpoint, which emphasized the primary authority of the sutras over scholastic categories. The text remains a structural baseline for Buddhist logic.

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