The Abhidharma are a collection of Buddhist texts dating from the 3rd century BCE onwards, which contain detailed scholastic presentations of doctrinal...
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Buddhist texts (section Abhidharma texts)
known as "sutras", and other texts, such as "shastras" (treatises) or "Abhidharma". These religious texts were written in different languages, methods and...
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Abhidhamma Piṭaka (redirect from Abhidharma Pitaka)
doctrine. The Abhidhamma Pitaka is one of several surviving examples of Abhidharma literature, analytical and philosophical texts that were composed by several...
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that the Mahāsāṃghikas had no abhidharma. However, other sources indicate that there were such collections of abhidharma, and the Chinese pilgrims Faxian...
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Abhidharmakośa-bhāsya (redirect from Abhidharma-kośa)
the Treasury of Abhidharma), Abhidharmakośa (Sanskrit: अभिधर्मकोश) for short (or just Kośa or AKB), is a key text on the Abhidharma written in Sanskrit...
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Sarvastivada (section Abhidharma)
century BCE). It was particularly known as an Abhidharma tradition, with a unique set of seven canonical Abhidharma texts. The Sarvāstivādins were one of the...
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The Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣā Śāstra (Sanskrit: अभिधर्म महाविभाष शास्त्र) is an ancient Buddhist text. It is thought to have been authored around 150 CE....
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Vasubandhu (section Abhidharma)
Gandhara or Central India. He was a philosopher who wrote commentary on the Abhidharma, from the perspectives of the Sarvastivada and Sautrāntika schools. After...
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Abhidharma-samuccaya (Sanskrit; Wylie: mngon pa kun btus; English: "Compendium of Abhidharma") is a Buddhist text composed by Asaṅga. The Abhidharma-samuccaya...
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results. Abhidharma studies in the Mahayana tradition are based on the Sanskrit Sarvāstivāda abhidharma system. Within this system, the Abhidharma-samuccaya...
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elaborations and disputes gave rise to various early Buddhist schools of Abhidharma, the Mahāyāna movement, and scholastic traditions such as Prajñāpāramitā...
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Śāriputra (section Abhidharma)
Buddhist schools to have been important in the development of the Buddhist Abhidharma. He frequently appears in Mahayana sutras, and in some sutras, is used...
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stated by the commentator Yasomitra, they hold the sutras, but not the Abhidharma commentaries (sastras), as authoritative. The views of this group first...
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Vipassanā-ñāṇa (section Sarvastivadin Abhidharma texts)
Patisambhidamagga, the Vimuttimagga and the Visuddhimagga. In Sarvastivadin abhidharma texts, the "path of insight" (darśana-mārga) one of the five paths of...
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Within the Buddhist Abhidharma teachings, virya is identified as: One of the six occasional mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma One of the eleven...
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Early Buddhist texts (section Abhidharma)
different Buddhist schools, as well as some material from the earliest Abhidharma texts could also be quite early. Besides the large collections in Pali...
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"interest", or "desire to act". Chanda is identified within the Buddhist Abhidharma teachings as follows: One of the six occasional mental factors in the...
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''Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma'', p. 143. Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong. Dhammajoti, Bhikkhu K.L. (2009) ''Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma'', pp....
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logico-epistemology Buddhist ethics Buddhism and psychology Buddhist vegetarianism Abhidharma Ahimsa Not-self Interdependent origination Emptiness Karma Middle Way...
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considers the analysis of prajñā found in the Abhidharma texts to be incomplete. According to Williams, the Abhidharma description of prajñā stops at the discernment...
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identified within the Buddhist Abhidharma teachings as follows: One of the seven universal mental factors in the Theravada Abhidharma. One of the five universal...
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Dharmaguptaka (section Abhidharma)
their views are similar to those of the Mahāsāṃghikas. According to the Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣā Śāstra, the Dharmaguptakas held that the Four Noble Truths...
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Yoga (section Abhidharma and Yogachara)
traditions. Larson noted a number of parallels in ancient samkhya, yoga and Abhidharma Buddhism, particularly from the second century BCE to the first century...
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within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings One of the fourteen unwholesome mental factors, called lobha, within the Theravada Abhidharma teachings Rāga literally...
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Yoga Mīmāṃsā Ājīvika Ajñana Cārvāka Jain Anekantavada Syādvāda Buddhist Abhidharma Sarvāstivadā Pudgalavada Sautrāntika Madhyamaka Svatantrika and Prasangika...
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several of the Jataka tales. In the fourth-century Mahayana abhidharma work, the Abhidharma-samuccaya, Asaṅga describes followers of the Pratyekabuddhayāna...
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factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings. One of the fourteen unwholesome mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma teachings. One of the ten...
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