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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The Abhidhamma Piṭaka (English: Basket of Higher Doctrine) is the third of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of...
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Abhidharma (section Theravāda Abhidhamma)
Abhidharma literature. The early canonical Abhidharma works, such as the Abhidhamma Piṭaka, are not philosophical treatises but mainly summaries and expositions...
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Theravada (section Abhidhamma philosophy)
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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Buddhist Texts. The Abhidhamma Pitaka, however, is a strictly Theravada collection and has little in common with the Abhidhamma works recognized by other...
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sems byung), in Buddhism, are identified within the teachings of the Abhidhamma (Buddhist psychology). They are defined as aspects of the mind that apprehend...
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various passions that defile bodily and mental states. In the Pali Canon's Abhidhamma and post-canonical Pali literature, ten defilements are identified, the...
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Skandha (section In Theravada Abhidhamma)
skandha as, In the Nikayas/Āgamas: cognizance, that which discerns. In the Abhidhamma: a series of rapidly changing interconnected discrete acts of cognizance...
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Compendium of Things contained in the Abhidhamma) is a Pali Buddhist instructional manual or compendium of the Abhidhamma of the Theravāda tradition. It was...
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Pitaka (focuses on monastic rule), Sutta Pitaka (Buddhist discourses) and Abhidhamma Pitaka, which contain expositions and commentaries on the doctrine. The...
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Purification), is the 'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka....
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Early Buddhist schools (section Abhidhamma)
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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of the Tripiṭaka are the Vinaya Piṭaka (Basket of Discipline) and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka (Basket of Higher Doctrine). The Sutta Pitaka contains more than...
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are enumerated in different ways in the Pali canon's Sutta Pitaka and Abhidhamma Pitaka. The Pali canon's Sutta Pitaka identifies ten "fetters of becoming":...
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fully elucidated clinging to the "self" and its resultant unease. The Abhidhamma and its commentaries provide the following definitions for these four...
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Buddhism. The other two parts of the Tripiṭaka are the Sutta Piṭaka and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. Its primary subject matter is the monastic rules of conduct for...
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constitute the Buddhist canon: the Vinaya Piṭaka, the Sutta Piṭaka, and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. The Pāli Canon maintained by the Theravāda tradition in Southeast...
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Dhamma vicaya (section Abhidhamma)
"discriminating that Dhamma with wisdom" (taṃ dhammaṃ paññāya pavicināti). The Abhidhamma's Dhammasaṅgaṇi even more strongly associates dhamma vicaya with paññā...
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Buddhism and psychology (section Abhidhamma psychology)
literally "basket") of the Tripitaka is known as the Abhidhamma (Pali; Skt. Abhidharma). The Abhidhamma works are historically later than the two other collections...
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A Manual of Abhidhamma. Buddhist Missionary Society. pp. 318–320. Anuruddha (1993). Bodhi (ed.). A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: the Abhidhammattha...
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refer to wholesome, mundane factors leading to enlightenment. In the Abhidhamma and Pali commentaries, the bojjhangas tend to refer to supramundane factors...
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Tipitaka (meaning 'three baskets', namely Vinaya Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka and Abhidhamma Pitaka) kept in royal libraries in the form of peisa or palm leaf manuscripts...
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a passive mode of intentional consciousness (citta) described in the Abhidhamma of Theravada Buddhism. It is also a mental process which conditions the...
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including Suttas (Buddhist discourses), Vinaya (monastic discipline), Abhidhamma (philosophy), poetry, history, philology, hagiography, scriptural exegesis...
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Yamaka (category Abhidhamma Pitaka)
monk laws. It is a text on applied logic and analysis included in the Abhidhamma Pitaka. The Yamaka consists of ten chapters, each dealing with a particular...
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dʑoʊʔ sʰəjàdɔ̀]), is a Burmese Buddhist scholar-monk and specialist in Abhidhamma. He is chief abbot of the monasteries of Mahā Subodhāyon and rector of...
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Abhidhamma Day: According to Burmese tradition, this day celebrates when the Buddha went to the Tushita Heaven to teach his mother the Abhidhamma. It...
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History of education (section Abhidhamma Pitaka)
The history of education extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from ancient civilizations. Historical studies have included...
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Bodhipakkhiyādhammā (section Abhidhamma Pitaka)
themselves first collated, enumerated, and referenced in the Sutta Pitaka and Abhidhamma Pitaka. In the Digha Nikāya's famed Maha-parinibbana Sutta (DN 16), which...
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