Theravāda Abhidhamma is a scholastic systematization of the Theravāda school's understanding of the highest Buddhist teachings (Abhidhamma). These teachings...

The Abhidhamma Piṭaka (English: Basket of Higher Doctrine) is the third of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of...

Abhidhamma Day (Burmese: အဘိဓမ္မာနေ့) is a Theravada Buddhist tradition celebrated primarily in Myanmar. Abhidhamma Day celebrates Gautama Buddha's descent...

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...

Buddhist Texts. The Abhidhamma Pitaka, however, is a strictly Theravada collection and has little in common with the Abhidhamma works recognized by other...

Abhidharma literature. The early canonical Abhidharma works (like the Abhidhamma Pitaka) are not philosophical treatises, but mainly summaries and expositions...

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...

various passions that defile bodily and mental states. In the Pali Canon's Abhidhamma and post-canonical Pali literature, ten defilements are identified, the...

sems byung), in Buddhism, are identified within the teachings of the Abhidhamma (Buddhist psychology). They are defined as aspects of the mind that apprehend...

skandha as, In the Nikayas/Āgamas: cognizance, that which discerns. In the Abhidhamma: a series of rapidly changing interconnected discrete acts of cognizance...

"discriminating that Dhamma with wisdom" (taṃ dhammaṃ paññāya pavicināti). The Abhidhamma's Dhammasaṅgaṇi even more strongly associates dhamma vicaya with paññā...

of the Tripiṭaka are the Vinaya Piṭaka (Basket of Discipline) and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka (Basket of Higher Doctrine). The Sutta Pitaka contains more than...

including Suttas (Buddhist discourses), Vinaya (monastic discipline), Abhidhamma (philosophy), poetry, history, philology, hagiography, scriptural exegesis...

constitute the Buddhist canon: the Sutra Piṭaka, the Vinaya Piṭaka, and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. The Pāli Canon maintained by the Theravāda tradition in Southeast...

Compendium of Things contained in the Abhidhamma) is a Pali Buddhist instructional manual or compendium of the Abhidhamma of the Theravāda tradition. It was...

Abhidhamma Day: According to Burmese tradition, this day celebrates when the Buddha went to the Tushita Heaven to teach his mother the Abhidhamma. It...

Pitaka (focuses on monastic rule), Sutta Pitaka (Buddhist discourses) and Abhidhamma Pitaka, which contain expositions and commentaries on the doctrine. The...

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...

teachings of Vipassana in the Burmese traditions are derived from the Abhidhamma Pitaka (which, according to Theravadin commentarial tradition and Goenka...

mentioned separately, but is usually described along with samatha. The Abhidhamma Pitaka and the commentaries describe samatha and vipassanā as two separate...

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":...

refer to wholesome, mundane factors leading to enlightenment. In the Abhidhamma and Pali commentaries, the bojjhangas tend to refer to supramundane factors...

The history of education extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from ancient civilizations. Historical studies have included...

A Manual of Abhidhamma. Buddhist Missionary Society. pp. 318–320. Anuruddha (1993). Bodhi (ed.). A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: the Abhidhammattha...

literally "basket") of the Tripitaka is known as the Abhidhamma (Pali; Skt. Abhidharma). The Abhidhamma works are historically later than the two other collections...

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...

teachings and techniques like the Visuddhimagga Abhidhamma manuals, which explain the contents of the Abhidhamma Pitaka Other types of texts present in Pali...

fully elucidated clinging to the "self" and its resultant unease. The Abhidhamma and its commentaries provide the following definitions for these four...

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...

firm) standing point, possessing nothing. In the Theravada tradition's Abhidhamma texts, nibbāna is regarded as an uncompounded or unconditioned (asankhata)...