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

(savaka) or arahants. Theravāda Abhidhamma holds that a single thought (citta) cannot last as long as a day. Theravāda Abhidhamma holds that insight into...

the Abhidhamma Pitaka addresses doctrinal differences with other early Buddhist schools. Study of the Abhidhamma Pitaka and Theravāda Abhidhamma is a...

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

Each school developed its own Abhidharma. The best-known is the Theravāda Abhidhamma, but the Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma was historically very influential...

Purification), is the 'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka...

commentaries to the commentaries). Abhidhamma remains a living tradition in Theravāda nations today and modern Abhidhamma works continue to be written in...

Vitarka - initial thought Vicāra - sustained thought Within the Theravāda Abhidhamma tradition, the Abhidhammattha-sangaha enumerates the fifty-two mental...

sources. And while the New Burmese Method is strictly based on the Theravāda Abhidhamma and the Visuddhimagga, western teachers tend to base their practice...

by the sautrāntika school, it was later adopted by yogācāra. The Theravāda abhidhamma also developed a complex analysis of conditional relations, which...

the product of contemporary Theravada practice tradition, despite its absence in the Theravada commentaries and Abhidhamma, is that the mind of the arahant...

politics-we see that it’s all always changing, dying, and becoming.” Theravāda Abhidhamma texts like the Kathavatthu traditionally reject the view that there...

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

Abhidharma collections have survived both containing seven texts, the Theravāda Abhidhamma and the Sarvastivada Abhidharma, which survives in Chinese translation...

teachings as follows: One of the six occasional mental factors in the Theravada Abhidhamma; in this tradition, chanda is a factor that can have positive or...

contexts. The Theravada school identifies the "luminous mind" with the bhavanga, a concept first proposed in the Theravāda Abhidhamma. The later schools...

Readings in Theravada Buddhism website Anuradhapura Mahavihara Abhayagiri Vihara Asceticism Ashoka the Great Basic points unifying Theravāda and Mahāyāna...

Theravāda Buddhism faced numerous challenges, such as Western colonialism and the arrival of Christian missionaries. In response, various Theravāda Buddhist...

intrinsic existence (sabhāva). According to Peter Harvey, sabhāva in the Theravāda Abhidhamma is something conditional and interdependent: "They are dhammas because...

fourteen unwholesome mental factors within the Theravada Abhidhamma teachings One of the ten fetters in the Theravada tradition Nina van Gorkom explains: The...

though the Theravada tradition identifies it with one that does; the phenomenon described as "luminous mind." The Theravāda Abhidhamma tradition asserts...

Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, where it is included in the Abhidhamma Pitaka. One known English translation is contained...

Vimuttimagga in his presentation. The Visuddhimagga's doctrine reflects Theravāda Abhidhamma scholasticism, which includes several innovations and interpretations...

will come to fruition. In the Theravāda Abhidhamma and commentarial traditions, karma is taken up at length. The Abhidhamma Sangaha of Anuruddhācariya offers...

classification of material in the early Buddhist texts. The Abhidhamma philosophy of the Theravāda school belongs to this phase. The third phase concerns Mahāyāna...

scripture, one of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma Pitaka. The text contrasts the orthodox Theravada position on a range of issues to the heterodox...

In the later commentarial tradition, which has survived in present-day Theravāda, dhyāna is equated with "concentration", a state of one-pointed absorption...

of scripture of Theravada Buddhism. The other two parts of the Tripiṭaka are the Vinaya Piṭaka (Basket of Discipline) and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka (Basket...

developed by them. The Theravada school identifies the "luminous mind" with the bhavanga, a concept first proposed in the Theravāda Abhidhamma. The later schools...

the Sutra Piṭaka, the Vinaya Piṭaka, and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. The Pāli Canon maintained by the Theravāda tradition in Southeast Asia, the Chinese Buddhist...