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| | Abhidhamma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Abhidharma (Sanskrit; (Pāli Abhidhamma) is a category of Buddhist scriptures that attempts to use Buddhist teachings to create a systematic, abstract description of all worldly phenomena. | | | Traditionally, Buddhists have been of the belief that the Abhidharma was not a later addition to the tradition, but rather represented the first, original teachings of the Buddha. | | | Scholars generally believe that the Abhidharma emerged after the time of the Buddha, as the growth of monastic centers and support for the Buddhist sangha provided the resources and expertise necesary to systematically analyize the early teachings. |
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| | Glossary of Buddhist Terms |
| | The Vinaya is a division of the Buddhist Tripitaka: Sutra, Vinaya, and Abhidharma. | | | Abhidharma focuses on the training of discriminating knowledge, and is one of the "Three Baskets" (Sanskrit Tripitaka, Sutra, Vinaya, and Abhidharma. | | | In other words, the Abhidharma teachings are derived from the teachings of the Buddha. |
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| | tysonwilliams.com: What is Abhidharma? |
| | Abhidharma was one of the first forms of Buddhism to come to India. | | | 356-364; idem, Buddyzm [Buddhism], Wwa 1980; N.K.G. Mendis, The Abhidharma in Practice, Kandy 1985. | | | The term abhidharma is most often rendered as "scholasticism" of account of the formalistic, dogmatic and secondary character of the texts; the translation of the term abhidharma as "metaphysics" or "transcendental doctrine" is inadequate. |
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| | Abhidharma-kosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Abhidharma-kośa, a key Abhidharma text in verse written by Vasubandhu, summarizing Sarvāstivādin tenets in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhidharma-kosa
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| | Encyclopedia: Buddhist texts |
| | A Sarvastivada Abhidharma composed in Sanskrit, survives in Chinese and Tibetan traditions. | | | He is also said to have personally written the MahÄynasamgraha, the Abhidharmasamucaya (a compendium of Abhidharma thought which became the standard text for many Mahayana schools especially in Tibet), and the YogÄcÄbhÅ«mi (although the latter text appears to have had several authors). | | | Outside of the Theravada monasteries the Pali Abhidharma texts are not well known. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Buddhist-texts
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| | The Theravada school holds that the Buddha is the source of the Abhidharma philosophy and was himself the first master of the Abhidharma because, on the night of his enlightenment, he penetrated the essence of the Abhidharma. | | | This is the week known as 'the House of Gems.' Later in his career, it is said that the Buddha visited the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, where his mother was, and taught the Abhidharma to her and the gods. | | | Thus it is claimed in general that it is the Buddha to whom we owe the inspiration of the Abhidharma teaching. |
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| | Abhidharma - definition of Abhidharma in Encyclopedia |
| | Given that the interpretations of the Buddha's teachings varied in different Buddhist schools, it is understandable that they produced distinct secondary works. | | | The only complete set of these that still exists was composed in Sanskrit by the Sarvastivadins, no later than the first centuries BC and CE produced. | | | Thus, abhidamma or, more commonly, the Sanskrit equivalent, abhidharma, can also refer to similar texts by schools other than the Theravada. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Abhidharma
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| | Best of the Forum - Neville - The Abhidharma Principles by Neville Ackland - Roger's House of Maharaji Drek |
| | Abhidharma is a Sanskrit word which means "the ultimate doctrine". This psychology elaborates Gautama Buddha's original insights into human nature and has been preserved largely unchanged by the Vadan Buddhists as part of their scriptures and is found in nearly identical form in Tibet and china and India. | | | Many Abhidharma principles represent the psychological teachings common to all eastern faiths not just those limited to Buddhism. Virtually every eastern meditation system transplanted to the west stems from this psychology or another much like it. | | | Mindfulness is the continued clear comprehension of the object of perception. It is the essential partner of insight. Insight and mindfulness are the primary healthy factors. |
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http://www.oz.net/~drek/best/neville_the_abhidharma_principles_by_neville_ackland.html
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| | Kyegu Buddhist Institute - Six major Texts of Buddhist Philosophy |
| | The root textual source on Abhidharma is called "seven treatises on Abhidharma" which are the prime source of Vaibhashika and it is not considered the Buddha's direct teaching yet it is believed that these were set together by seven Arhats (foe-destroyer) from the discourses which Buddha taught separately to different people in different places. | | | The most popular works on Abhidharma in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition are Arya Asanga's Abhidharma Samuccaya and his Brother Acharya Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosha. | | | Throughout the varying phases of Abhidharma's historical development, Buddhist philosophy has unmistakably preserved certain traits which at the outset formed the very life force of Buddhist thought and, which still vitally concern us as a truly spiritual force. |
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| | Buddhism Today - Dda.o Pha^.t Nga`y Nay, default page-english |
| | The Theravada school holds that the Buddha is the source of the Abhidharma philosophy and was himself the first master of the Abhidharma because, on the night of his enlightenment, he penetrated the essence of the Abhidharma. | | | This is the week known as 'the House of Gems.' Later in his career, it is said that the Buddha visited the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, where his mother was, and taught the Abhidharma to her and the gods. | | | This traditional regard for the Abhidharma is found not only in the Theravada tradition but in other major Buddhist traditions as well. |
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http://www.buddhismtoday.com/english/philosophy/Abhi/001-intro.htm
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| | The Abhidharma |
| | The development of the Abhidharma must have taken place - roughly speaking - between the beginning of the third century B.C. and the end of the first century A.D. The catechism, that later in the chronicles and commentaries was called 'abhidharma' is said to have been started by the direct pupils of the Buddha. | | | The most complete and elaborate Abhidharmas are those of the Theras of Sri Lanka, and of the Sarvastivadins of North India. | | | Most of these schools consider their Abhidharma as the genuine word of the Buddha, although given in the rendering of his direct pupils. |
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http://home.uni-one.nl/olive.press/abhi.htm
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| | Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: abhidharma |
| | Abhidharma means "upon the Law" and refers to commentaries on the Law, that is, doctrinal studies of the Buddha's teachings' or the sutras. | | | Very few Sanskrit abhidharma manuscripts are extant; most are known through their Chinese translations. | | | The present Theravada school of Southern Buddhism has a collection of seven Pali works that comprise the abhidharma of this school. |
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http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/sgdb/lexicon.cgi?tid=2078
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| | The XIV Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies - London 2005 |
| | Harivarman's *Tattvasiddhi or Perfection of Truth is a compendium of the doctrines of abhidharma similar to the H?daya-treatises of Sarvastivada, or to the Abhidharmakosa. | | | It is generally believed that the Abhidharma presents the doctrines, which are available in the sutras in scattered and unstructured form. | | | The objective of this paper is to discuss the significance of Discourses (sutras) delivered by some of the foremost disciples of the Buddha in the development of the Abhidharma. |
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http://www.soas.ac.uk/Religions/iabs2005/section_abstracts.htm
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| | The Abhidharma |
| | According to tradition, Mahakasyapa, one of the close disciples of the Buddha, recited the Abhidharma during the first council in Rajgir. | | | The Abhidharma has been the source of all Buddhist philosophies throughout all schools and periods. | | | The Abhidharma is a unique feature of Buddhism. |
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http://www.bibliotheque-dhagpo-kagyu.org/en/doss/abhi1.php
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| | The Abhidharma |
| | The Abhidharma does not focus on the mode of existence of phenomena, but rather on the cause of this appearance of phenomena and the manner of manifestation. | | | When the Abhidharma is referred to in Tibet, the text is generally understood to be the Abhidharmakosha. | | | The bibliography of the Abhidharma presents our collection of Tibetan and Western texts. |
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http://www.bibliotheque-dhagpo-kagyu.org/en/doss/abhi2.php
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| | Simhanada---The Lineages of Buddhism |
| | The bodhisattva Maitreya recited the Vinaya, and the bodhisattva Manjushri recited the Abhidharma. | | | The questions we should ask ourselves are whether these ten items can be found in the Sutras or in the Vinaya or in the Abhidharma.” He asked all of the arhats that were present where these could be found and all of the arhats replied that they couldn’t be found in any of these works. | | | Then Yashah asked, “Are these items in contradiction with the teachings of the Buddha; of the Sutras, the Vinaya, and the Abhidharma?” And the conclusion was that they were in contradiction with the works of the Buddha. |
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| | The Namo Buddha Glossary |
| | There is not, in fact, an abhidharma section within the Tibetan collection of the Buddhist teachings. | | | There are the sutras (the narrative teachings of the Buddha), the vinaya (a code for monks and nuns) and the Abhidharma (philosophical background of the dharma). | | | chö ngön pa) The Buddhist teachings are often divided into the Tripitaka: the sutras (teachings of the Buddha), the vinaya (teachings on conduct,) and the abhidharma which are the analyses of phenomena that exist primarily as a commentarial tradition to the Buddhist teachings. |
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| | Abhidharma - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK |
| | Abhidharma [Skt.,=higher dharma, or doctrine], schools of Buddhist philosophy. | | | Later schools developed the process of analysis and classification that was called Abhidharma; their treatises were collected in the Abhidharmapitaka, one of the three main divisions of the Pali Buddhist canon (see Buddhist literature | | | See H. Guenther, Philosophy and Psychology in the Abhidharma (1957); T. Stcherbatsky, The Central Conception of Buddhism (4th ed. |
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| | Buddhist philosophy, Indian : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online |
| | The earliest attempts to systematize the teachings of Buddhism were in the genre of literature known as ‘Abhidharma’, in which all the factors of human experience were classified according to a variety of schemata (see Buddhism, Ābhidharmika schools of). | | | Indeed, each had its own interpretation of what the very word ‘Abhidharma’ means; among the possible interpretations of the word, a common one is that it means a higher or more advanced doctrine, or a doctrine that leads to a higher form of wisdom. | | | This new spirit of overcoming sectarianism resulted in several ingenious attempts to fuse the old Abhidharma schools, the Mādhyamika schools, the Yogācāra schools and the Buddhist epistemologists. |
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| | Nature and Identity of the Texts in the Sacred Traditions of Buddhism |
| | Despite their supposed canonicity, the Abhidharmas are the works of schools and it is only through contrivance that they are connected with the Buddha and disciples contemporary with him'. | | | Unlike the Theravadins, they believed that it was not at the Bodhi tree but in Sarvasti that Buddha initiated Abhidharma, and it was not compiled by Buddha but he authorised his disciples who compiled it at different times and places. | | | However, the content of the Abhidharma is different in different schools although they all claim to be the summary and substance of Buddha's teaching in the Sutrapithaka. |
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| | Thinking in Buddhism: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamikakarikas (part 4) |
| | The purpose for compiling the Abhidharma was to distill the essentials of the Buddha's teachings on philosophy and psychology from the discourses and attempt to avoid the inexactitudes and ambiguities occasionally found in these scriptures. | | | Further, the Abhidharma thinkers did their job so well that subsequent thinkers, such as those of the Prajnaparamita, had no choice but to adopt a different tack in interpretating and expounding the Buddha's teachings. | | | The writers of the Prajnaparamitas regarded the Abhidharma of the Older School of Buddhism, with its dry emphasis on the proper path towards and means of achieving enlightenment, the rules of the Order, and the niggling debates over fine points of ethics, as being on the wrong track. |
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| | The Abhidharma taught by the Buddha is the seven books of the Abhidharma-pitaka. | | | The Abhidharma is the third of the three divisions or "baskets" of the Tripitaka or Buddhist Canon. | | | Its Dharma is organized thematically and logically; it can be said to be a systematic exposition of Buddhist psychology of mind. |
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| | Buddhism - encyclopedia article about Buddhism. |
| | During the first few centuries after Gautama Buddha, his teachings were transmitted orally, but around the 1st Century CE they began to be written down. | | | The Abhidhamma (Skt: Abhidharma) or commentary Pitaka, containing a philosophical systematization of the Buddha's teaching, including a detailed analysis of Buddhist psychology. | | | Scholars beleieve that it was also around this time that a significant change was made in the language of the Sarvāstivādin canon, by converting an earlier Prakrit version into Sanskrit. |
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| | Abhidharma-kosa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Abhidharma-kośa, a key (Click link for more info and facts about Abhidharma) Abhidharma text in verse written by (Click link for more info and facts about Vasubandhu) Vasubandhu, summarizing (Click link for more info and facts about Sarvāstivādin) Sarvāstivādin tenets in eight chapters with a total of around 600 verses. | | | A large number of sub-commentaries on this text have been preserved in Tibetan translation. |
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| | It is written by Bhikkhu, Kuala Lumpur Dhammajoti, one of the Editors of the Journal of Buddhist Studies of the Centre for Buddhist Studies. | | | He specialises in the field of comparative study of the Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan sources pertaining to the Nikaya/Agama texts and the Abhidharma literature of the Northern tradition. | | | The Centre for Buddhist Studies, Sri Lanka will launch its first publication on the Sarvastivada Abhidharma on Saturday June 7 at 3 pm at the National Library and Documentation Services Board Auditorium, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7. |
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| | 3 The Abhidharma Schools |
| | Amongst extant early Buddhist Abhidharma literature, the Abhidharma is the most systematic, and contains the first exhaustive attempt to categorise and list all the types of dharma which, in their view, constitute reality. | | | What is known for certain (the name of the school gives it away) is that the Sautraantikas rejected the authority of the various Abhidharmas of other schools, and in particular that of the Sarvaastivaada, and advocated a return to the views of the suttas. | | | It seems likely that Vasubandhu's Abhidharmako'sa-bhaa.sya, whilst supposedly written from a Sautraantika viewpoint, was partly responsible for what were subsequently recognised as Sautraantika views. |
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| | Initially, the Abhidharma was the third of the three baskets of the Buddhist canon. | | | The Mahayana version of the Abhidharma is based on the earlier ones but reinterprets and revitalizes them within the Perfection of Wisdom and the vow to liberate all beings. | | | It presented an organized and panoramic compilation of the psychological and philosophical teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha and his main disciples. |
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| | Excerpts Advayavada Buddhism Infocenter - Amsterdam |
| | It was Abhidharma Buddhism which awakened to a kind of philosophy of emptiness and set it up in the heart of Buddhism. | | | Beginning with the Prajñaparamita-sutra, Mahayana Buddhist thinkers transcended Abhidharma Buddhism's analytic view of emptiness, erecting the standpoint which was later called the 'view of substantial emptiness'. | | | The self is analyzed away into five 'heaps' (skandhas) which the Abhidharma (the 'higher dharma', a philosophical abstract of the Buddha's teachings) classifies and systematizes. |
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| | THDL Essays: Tibetan Monastic Education |
| | Another indication of the role played in the curriculum by the Vinaya and the Abhidharma is that the Tibetan commentaries used in studying them, unlike those for the first three texts, are not tradition-specific. | | | The study of the Abhidharma enriches the understanding of the Buddhist view of the world already conveyed to the students by the Ornament. | | | Monks nowadays have neither the leisure nor the scholarly gusto for exploring the details of the Vinaya and Abhidharma, as they did in Tibet, where scholars ferociously debated the intricacies of these texts and where knowledge of the Vinaya and the Abhidharma was considered a scholar’s crowning achievement. |
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| | So people who see abhidharma as a "valley of dry bones" (to change the metaphor and to quote a famous Buddhist studies specialist), in which the Dharma has all but been lost, often see Nagarjuna as a figure who breathed life back into the dying corpse of Buddhism. | | | One favourite way is to depict him as a revolutionary figure who took out his sword of wisdom and hacked away at the moribund scholasticism of the abhidharma teachers who had buried the Dharma under layers of impenetrable concepts and silly definitions. | | | And I do not see him as refuting abhidharma at all. |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/buddhism/zen/9902.nagrjna.rph
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| | Ulrich Kragh |
| | His areas of specialisation are the karmaphala theories presented in Indian Abhidharma and Madhyamaka texts and 12th century Mahamudra works associated with the Tibetan master Gampopa. | | | He has contributed information on Chinese and Tibetan translations of early Indian Abhidharma works to the DDB. |
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| | Various interpretations of ' Vinaya ' and ' Abhidharma' led the various schools of thought in Buddhism. | | | It is said that he came to Kashmir to study one of the main Buddhist philosophies Sarvastivada. | | | All these scholars were followers of Buddha and all of them considered ' Moksha ' to be the ultimate aim of life. |
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| | Nõnda sai terviklik sarvāstivāda abhidharma filosoofia, mida sajandeid oli arendatud suhtelises isolatsioonis, esmakordselt tuntuks väljaspool Kašmiri. | | | Vasubandhu pingutuste tulemusel sai vaibhāṣika abhidharma käsitlus laialdaselt tuntuks kogu Põhja-Indias. | | | Vaibhāṣikate õpetused ja harjutused põhinesid sarvāstivāda 7-l abhidharma tekstil ja Mahāvibhāṣāl, Suurel Kommentaaril. |
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| | PHIL 320 Handout 15: Sarvastivada |
| | Sarvastivada provides an analysis of the Abhidharma literature of early Buddhism. | | | Arguments Against Substance: Buddhists generally argue against existence as a substance common to Hindu thought (especially Nyaya and Vaisheshika). | | | Types of Ultimate Constituents: In addition to the traditional abhidharma lists, Sarvastivadins added other dharmas to explain knowability, continuity, and identity. |
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| | Each of these two schools had its own Abhidharma, two sets of seven texts each, in which their views are set forth in extensive detail. | | | The other tradition, which stemmed from the northern part of India, came to be known as Sarvastivada, as in its texts it was proposed that the momentary factors (dharma) that comprise the components of the Buddhist universe really exist, not only such factors presently occurring but past and future ones as well. | | | Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies - Volume VII : Abhidharma Buddhism to 150 A.D. by |
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| | Abhidharma on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Later schools developed the process of analysis and classification that was called Abhidharma ; their treatises were collected in the Abhidharmapitaka, one of the three main divisions of the Pali Buddhist canon (see Buddhist literature, Pali canon). | | | Bibliography: See H. Guenther, Philosophy and Psychology in the Abhidharma (1957); T. Stcherbatsky, The Central Conception of Buddhism (4th ed. | | | AD), who wrote the encyclopedic Abhidharma-kosa or Treasury of Abhidharma. |
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| | The Abhidharma is a collection of Buddhist teachings on the mind. | | | It is Buddhism under the Mahayana interpretation that enters China to become Ch’an or Zen. | | | Brazier does the best work I have seen on making key features of this teaching accessible to all. |
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| | Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | When Xuanzang requested to take Buddhist orders at the age of thirteen, the abbot Zheng Shanguo made an exception in his case because of his precocious sapience. | | | In 618, due to the civil war breaking out in Henan, Xuanzang and his brother sought refuge in the mountains of Sichuan, where he spent three years or so in the monastery of Kong Hui plunging into the study of various Buddhist texts, such as the Abhidharmakosa-sastra (Abhidharma Storehouse Treatise. |
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| | San Francisco Shambhala Center |
| | Readings will be assigned from the books Glimpses of Abhidharma, by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness, by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. | | | There are no absolute prerequisites for this course, but it is preferable that all students have read the book Turning the Mind Into an Ally, by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and have some commitment to a meditation practice. | | | This course will introduce the Abhidharma (Pattern of Reality) teachings on the structure of ego and the mechanism of karma, then go on to approach the profound and ultimate view of emptiness-luminosity. |
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| | Nitartha Institute: Advanced Courses |
| | 314 Abhidharma IV This series of courses examines in detail the Buddhist terminologies and classifications of mind and phenomena as taught in the Abhidharma literature of foundational Buddhism, particularly as understood by the two philosophical systems of the Vaibhashika and Sautrantika. | | | The faculty teach from Karmapa Mikyö Dorje’s monumental Commentary on the Abhidharma: Bestowing the Fulfillment of Accomplishment and Happiness. | | | The focus of the course is the material presented in Vasubandhu’s seminal Abhidharmakosha, whose root verses present the Hinayana abhidharma from the Vaibhashika perspective, while its autocommentary frequently represents the viewpoint of the Sautrantika understanding. |
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| | Abhidharmamrtarasasastra (T.1553): an abhidharma texts attributed to Ghosaka |
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| | I am interested knowing more about the Abhidharma used by in Tibetan lineage. | | | : I am interested knowing more about the Abhidharma used by in Tibetan lineage. | | | Could anybody suggest some books or even better, any ebook that can be downloaded on line? |
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| | This was first done by the Sarvastivadins ("Realists"), who in the first centuries BC and CE produced afresh set of seven Abhidharma books in Sanskrit. | | | As in the course of centuries the doctrine itself, in certain schools, varied, it was felt necessary to rewrite thesesecondary works. |
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