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Theravāda Abhidhamma. Three pages of a Burmese Pali manuscript of the Mahaniddessa, an Abhidhamma style commentary found in the Khuddaka Nikāya. [1] The Theravāda Abhidhamma is a scholastic systematization of the Theravāda school's understanding of the highest Buddhist teachings (Abhidhamma). These teachings are traditionally believed to ...
v. t. e. The Abhidhamma Piṭaka (English: Basket of Higher Doctrine) is the third of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism. The other two parts of the Tripiṭaka are the Vinaya Piṭaka and the Sutta Piṭaka. The Abhidhamma Piṭaka is a detailed scholastic analysis and ...
Human experience is thus explained by a series of dynamic processes and their patterns of relationships with each other. Buddhist Abhidhamma philosophers then sought to explain all experience by creating lists and matrices (matikas) of these dhammas, which varied by school. The four categories of dhammas in the Theravada Abhidhamma are: [66]
The Visuddhimagga is considered the most important Theravada text outside of the Tipitaka canon of scriptures, [1] along with the Milindapañha. [16] According to Nanamoli Bhikkhu, the Visuddhimagga is "the hub of a complete and coherent method of exegesis of the Tipitaka, using the ‘Abhidhamma method' as it is called. And it sets out ...
Buddhism by country. Buddhism portal. v. t. e. The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. [1] It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon. [2][3] It derives mainly from the Tamrashatiya school.
Abhidhammattha-sangaha. The Abhidhammattha-saṅgaha (The Compendium of Things contained in the Abhidhamma) is a Pali Buddhist instructional manual or compendium of the Abhidhamma of the Theravāda tradition. [1] It was written by the Sri Lankan monk Ācariya Anuruddha some time between the 8th century and the 12th century.
Early Buddhism. Sarvāstivāda is a Sanskrit term that can be glossed as: "the theory of all that exists". The Sarvāstivāda argued that all dharmas (phenomena) exist in the past, present and future, the "three times". Vasubandhu 's Abhidharmakośa-bhāsya states, "He who affirms the existence of the dharmas of the three time periods [past ...
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