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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 |
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Disputed Dharmas: Early Buddhist Theories on Existence: An Annotated...
...works of Vasubandhu-the most notorious Sautrantika, whose Abhidharmakosa and Bhasya are the most important surviving Sanskrit representatives...and Sanghabhadra, who both imitated and attacked the Abhidharmakosa and Bhasya. Part II, "Introductory Commentaries," is... |
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Disputed Dharmas: Early Buddhist Theories on Existence; An Annotated...
...works of Vasubandhu - the most notorious Sautrantika, whose Abhidharmakosa and Bhasya are the most important surviving Sanskrit representatives...and Sanghabhadra, who both imitated and attacked the Abhidharmakosa and Bhasya. Part II, "Introductory Commentaries," is... |
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Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time.(Review)...
...except, as Bhikkhu Bodhi points out, that "a late exposition of the Sarvastivada Abhidhamma system, Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa, continues to be studied among Tibetan Buddhists and in the Far East" (p. x). Abhidhamma Studies is divided into five... |
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In praise of the collecting act. (includes essay on translating Yomota Inuhiko)
...chronologically arranged. It was the first foreign-language book I ever bought of my own volition. If you believe in the Abhidharmakosa of Vasubandhu, written in the India of the fifth century, the worlds we inhabit go up in rank whenever a thousand of them... |
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Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, vol. IX: Buddhist Philosophy from 350 to...
...28). He observes that although the process of enlightenment receives extensive treatment in works post-dating the Abhidharmakosa, it "remains essentially unchanged from its formulation in earlier Buddhist literature" (p. 25). As for the increased... |
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Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, vol. IX.(Encyclopedia of Indian...
...28). He observes that although the process of enlightenment receives extensive treatment in works post-dating the Abhidharmakosa, it "remains essentially unchanged from its formulation in earlier Buddhist literature" (p. 25). As for the increased... |
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Wie man den Veda lesen kann.(Book review)
...thematically and functionally with the Gandharva in much later Buddhist texts, particularly the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Abhidharmakosa. In these latter texts, she tells us, the Gandharva is the being, representing the transmigrating soul, who inhabits... |
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