Fourteen non-concurrent formations

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Fourteen non-concurrent formations (Tib. ལྡན་མིན་འདུ་བྱེད་བཅུ་བཞི་, den min dujé chushyi, Wyl. ldan min 'du byed bcu bzhi) mentioned in Vasubandhu's Treasury of Abhidharma:

  1. acquisition (Wyl. thob pa)
  2. dispossession (Wyl. ma thob pa)
  3. same status or similar class (Wyl. skal mnyam / Wyl. ris mthun)
  4. perceptionless absorption
  5. perceptionlessness
  6. absorption of cessation
  7. life faculty (Wyl. srog gi dbang po)
  8. birth (Wyl. skye ba)
  9. abiding (Wyl. gnas pa)
  10. aging (Wyl. rga ba)
  11. impermanence (Wyl. mi rtag pa)
  12. names (Wyl. ming gi tshogs)
  13. words/phrases (Wyl. tshig gi tshogs)
  14. letters (Wyl. yi ge'i tshogs)

Note that there are an additional ten non-concurrent formations mentioned in Asanga's Compendium of Abhidharma