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Abhidharma
Abhidharma [Skt.,=higher dharma, or doctrine], schools of Buddhist philosophy. Early Buddhism analyzed experience into 5 skandhas or aggregates, and alternatively into 18 dhatus or elements. Later schools developed the process of analysis and classification that was called Abhidharma ; their... Read more
Buddhist literature
Buddhist literature During his lifetime the Buddha taught not in Vedic Sanskrit, which had become unintelligible to the people, but in his own NE Indian dialect; he also encouraged his monks to propagate his teachings in the vernacular. After his death, the Buddhist canon was formulated and transmi... Read more
sunyata
sunyata [Skt.,=emptiness], one of the main tenets of Mahayana Buddhism , first presented by the Perfection of Wisdom ( Prajna-paramita ) scriptures (1st cent. BC on) and later systematized by the Madhyamika school. Early Buddhist schools of Abhidharma , or scholastic metaphysics, analyzed reali... Read more
Madhyamika
Madhyamika [Skt.,=of the middle], philosophical school of Mahayana Buddhism , based on the teaching of "emptiness" (see sunyata ) and named for its adherence to the "middle path" between the views of existence or eternalism and nonexistence or nihilism. The school was founded by Nagarjuna... Read more
Buddhism
Buddhism , religion and philosophy founded in India c.525 BC by Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha . There are over 300 million Buddhists worldwide. One of the great world religions, it is divided into two main schools: the Theravada or Hinayana in Sri Lanka and SE Asia, and the Mahayana in Chin... Read more

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Abhidharma
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Abhidharma [Skt.,=higher dharma, or doctrine...analysis and classification that was called Abhidharma ; their treatises were collected in...controversy. The greatest systematizer of Abhidharma thought was Vasubandhu (5th cent...
Yogacara
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...430), and Asanga's younger half-brother Vasubandhu (c.400-480), who was also the greatest systematizer of the Abhidharma type of Buddhist philosophy. The school held that consciousness ( vijnana ) is real, but its objects are constructions and...
Madhyamika
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...university of Nalanda and entered into debate with other schools including the Hindu logic school, or Nyaya, and the Buddhist Abhidharma . About 25 works are attributed to Nagarjuna, the most important being the Middle Stanzas ( Madhyamika Karika ). Nagarjuna...
sunyata
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Prajna-paramita ) scriptures (1st cent. BC on) and later systematized by the Madhyamika school. Early Buddhist schools of Abhidharma , or scholastic metaphysics, analyzed reality into ultimate entities, or dharmas , arising and ceasing in irreducible moments...
Buddhist literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...called pitakas [baskets], are the Vinaya or monastic rules, the Sutra (Pali Sutta ) or discourses of the Buddha, and the Abhidharma (Pali Abhidhamma ) or scholastic metaphysics. Also included are the Jataka, stories about the previous births of the Buddha...
Buddhism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...well as religious and philosophical issues, especially concerning the analyses of experience elaborated as the systems of Abhidharma , probably caused differing sects to flourish rapidly. Knowledge of early differences is limited, however, because the...

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Abhidharma
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Abhidharma (Skt.; Pāli, Abhidhamma...of religious teachings. The earliest Abhidharma material was composed over several centuries...of canonical scholastic treatises ( Abhidharma Piṭaka) of the different...
Abhidharma Piṭaka
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Abhidharma Piṭaka (Skt., basket...baskets’. The fact that the Abhidharma is not mentioned in the sū...referred to) proves that at one time the Abhidharma Piṭaka did not form a separate...
Abhidharma-dīpa
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Abhidharma-dīpa ‘Lamp of Abhidharma’, being a Sarvāstivādin Abhidharma text of uncertain authorship, though sometimes thought to have been composed by Vasumitra in response to Vasubandhu...
Abhidharma-kośa
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Abhidharma-kośa ‘Treasury of Abhidharma’, a key Abhidharma text in verse written by Vasubandhu and summarizing Sarvāstivādin tenets in eight chapters with a total of about 600 verses. The...
Abhidharma-samuccaya
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Abhidharma-samuccaya An Abhidharma text composed in prose by the Yogācārin...treatise conforms in structure to the pattern of traditional Abhidharma texts. This work, available in a partial Sanskrit manuscript...
Abhidharma-kośa-bhāṣya
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Abhidharma-kośa-bhāṣya Vasubandhu's auto-commentary to his Abhidharma-kośa in which he criticizes the interpretations of the Vaibhāṣikas and others of the tenets he presented...
Abhidharma-kośa Śāstra
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Abhidharma-kośa Śāstra. A systematic Sarvā...commentary ( Abh.k. bhāṣya ). As an encyclopaedia of Abhidharma, the work became absolutely central to the tradition of study within...
Katyāyana-abhidharma
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Katyāyana-abhidharma. Title of an early Abhidharma text attributed to the Arhat Mahākatyāyana .
Sautrāntika
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...tras and teachings developed their own Abhidharma system, which was referred to as D...yānists ‘doing Abhidharma’. Later, after the Mah...x101;na had developed its own Abhidharma, the Sautrāntika system...
guide to Buddhist scriptures*
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...ta .12. Paṭisambhidāmagga . Abhidharma-style analysis of points of doctrine.13. Apad...x101;yāna Sūtras.XIII. Abhidharma Section: Volumes 26–9, 28 text

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Madhyamika Thought in China. (book reviews)
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In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.
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