- The
Abhidhamma Piṭaka (English:
Basket of
Higher Doctrine) is the
third of the
three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the
definitive canonical collection of...
- Theravāda
Abhidhamma is a
scholastic systematization of the Theravāda school's
understanding of the
highest Buddhist teachings (
Abhidhamma).
These teachings...
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Abhidhamma Day (Burmese: အဘိဓမ္မာနေ့) is a
Theravada Buddhist tradition celebrated primarily in Myanmar.
Abhidhamma Day
celebrates Gautama Buddha's descent...
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Buddhist Texts. The
Abhidhamma Pitaka, however, is a
strictly Theravada collection and has
little in
common with the
Abhidhamma works recognized by other...
-
Buddhaghosa focused on the
exegesis of the Pali
scriptures and on the
Abhidhamma.
These Theravāda sub-sects
often came into
conflict with each
other over...
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Abhidharma literature. The
early canonical Abhidharma works (like the
Abhidhamma Pitaka) are not
philosophical treatises, but
mainly summaries and expositions...
-
various p****ions that
defile bodily and
mental states. In the Pali Canon's
Abhidhamma and post-canonical Pali literature, ten
defilements are identified, the...
- for a
basic framework, and not all of the
early schools developed an
Abhidhamma literature. Theravādin
sources state that, in the 3rd
century BCE, a third...
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skandha as, In the Nikayas/Āgamas: cognizance, that
which discerns. In the
Abhidhamma: a
series of
rapidly changing interconnected discrete acts of cognizance...
- "discriminating that
Dhamma with wisdom" (taṃ dhammaṃ paññāya pavicināti). The
Abhidhamma's Dhammasaṅgaṇi even more
strongly ****ociates
dhamma vicaya with paññā...
