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Abhidharma: History, Doctrine & Mahāyāna Abhidharma

The Abhidharma (lit. "about the dharma") refers to a class of Buddhist texts, the first of which date from the 3rd century BCE. Abhidharma texts contain detailed scholastic presentations of Buddhist doctrine, including doctrines that appear in canonical Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. "Abhidharma" also refers to the scholastic method itself, and…

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Abhidharma topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Doctrine and Mahāyāna Abhidharma as prominent areas in the source structure around Abhidharma. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
208
Source areas
9
Connected nodes
223
Extracted relationships
358
Concept neighborhoods
46
Bridge connections
223

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 68 topics
Doctrine · 45 topics
Mahāyāna Abhidharma · 28 topics
Theravāda Abhidhamma · 15 topics
Origin and history · 11 topics
Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma · 11 topics
Tattvasiddhi Śāstra · 11 topics
Definition · 10 topics
Other Abhidharma traditions · 10 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Bengali
অভিধর্ম্ম ôbhidhôrmmô
Burmese
အဘိဓမ္မာ (MLCTS: əbḭdəmà)
Chinese
阿毗達磨(T) / 阿毗达磨(S) (Pinyin: āpídámó)
English
higher teaching, meta-teaching, about dharmas [phenomena]
Japanese
阿毘達磨 (Rōmaji: abidatsuma)
Khmer
អភិធម្ម (UNGEGN: âphĭthômm)

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Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Definition

Origin and history

Doctrine

Theravāda Abhidhamma

Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma

Other Abhidharma traditions

Tattvasiddhi Śāstra

Mahāyāna Abhidharma

Sources

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Abhidharma connects Entity context

The extracted context around Abhidharma shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Abhidharma → Abhidhamma, Abhidhamma-Piṭaka, Abidharma, An Inquiry, Analysis, Bantam Dell, Being, Bell, Boston, Buddhas, Buddhism, Buddhist Manual, Buddhist Psychology, Buddhist Publication Society, Buddhist Sects, Buswell, Caroline, Chogyam, Collett, Compendium Another extracted example is Abhidharma → Abdhidhamma, Abhidhamma, Abhidhamma Archived, AbhidhammaA Comprehensive Manual, AbhidhammaBooks, AbhidhammaOnline, Amazon, Archived, Body, Buddhist Philosophy, Dhammasangani, Edward, HTML, In Zalta, Indiana Philosophy Ontology ProjectReadable, Insight, Internet ArchiveUnravelling, ISSN, Mind, Mysteries. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Abhidharma

Top relations

related to Sources · 79
Abhidharma → Abhidhamma, Abhidhamma-Piṭaka, Abidharma, An Inquiry, Analysis, Bantam Dell, Being, Bell, Boston, Buddhas, Buddhism, Buddhist Manual, Buddhist Psychology, Buddhist Publication Society, Buddhist Sects, Buswell, Caroline, Chogyam, Collett, Compendium
related to External links · 30
Abhidharma → Abdhidhamma, Abhidhamma, Abhidhamma Archived, AbhidhammaA Comprehensive Manual, AbhidhammaBooks, AbhidhammaOnline, Amazon, Archived, Body, Buddhist Philosophy, Dhammasangani, Edward, HTML, In Zalta, Indiana Philosophy Ontology ProjectReadable, Insight, Internet ArchiveUnravelling, ISSN, Mind, Mysteries
related to Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma · 28
Abhidharma → Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣa, According, Aṣṭagrantha, Aṣṭaskandha, Bactria, East Asian Buddhism, Foundation, Frauwallner, Gandhara, Great Commentary, Indian Abhidharma, Jñānaprasthāna, Kashmir, Kasmiri Sarvāstivāda Orthodoxy, Knowledge, Kushan Empire, Kātyāyanīputra, Like, North India, Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma Pitaka
related to Tattvasiddhi Śāstra · 27
Abhidharma → As, Bahuśrutīya, Buddhism, CE, China, Chinese, Chinese Buddhism, Chinese Buddhist, Chéngshí, Chéngshílun, Harivarman, Hīnayāna, Ian Charles Harris, India, Its, Joseph Walser, Mahāsāṃghika Bahuśrutīya, Mahāyāna, Mādhyamaka, Nan Huai-Chin
related to Modern scholarship · 26
Abhidharma → According, BCE, Bhikkhu Anālayo, Buddha, Buddhist, Buddhist Canon, Dharma, Dharmaguptaka, Gautama Buddha, Mahāgopālaka-sutta, Mahākāśyapa, Mahāsāṅghika Vinaya, Mahīśāsaka, Modern, Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya, Peter Skilling, Sanskrit, Sarvāstivāda Vinayas, Sūtra Piṭaka, The
related to Theravāda Abhidhamma · 24
Abhidharma → Abhidhamma, Abhidhamma Piṭaka, BCE, Due, English, In, It, Khuddaka Nikāya, Minor Collection, Nettipakaraṇa, Pali, Paṭisambhidāmagga, Peṭakopadesa, Pāli Canon, Pāli Text Society, Sanskrit, The, The Abhidhamma Piṭaka, Theravāda, Theravāda Tipiṭaka
related to Other Abhidharma traditions · 17
Abhidharma → Afghanistan, Bamiyan, Chinese, Dharmaguptaka, Lùn, Mahāsāṃghika Lokottaravāda, MS, Pudgalavada, Sammatiyanikayasastra, Sanskrit, Schøyen Collection, Several Pudgalavada Abhidharma, Shèlìfú, Taisho, The, These, Traidharmakasastra
related to Definition · 16
Abhidharma → According, Buddha, Buddhist, Collett Cox, Compared, Doctrine, Erich Frauwallner, Gautama Buddha, Indian, Lamotte, Sarvāstivādin Abhidharmikas, The, The Belgian Indologist, The Theravādin, They, Western
related to Further reading · 16
Abhidharma → Anālayo, Bhikkhu, Buddhist Phenomenology, Dorje, Gyurme, Hamburg, Hamburg Buddhist Studies, Hamburg University Press, Indo-Tibetan Classical Learning, ISBN, Ithaca, Jamgon, Knowledge, Snow Lion, The Dawn, The Treasury
related to Mahāyāna Abhidharma · 15
Abhidharma → Another, Asanga, Buddha, Dharmapāla, Hsüan-tsang, Mahāyāna, Mahāyāna Abhidharma, Mahāyāna Yogācāra, Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma, Sthiramati, This Yogācāra Abhidharma, Vasubandhu, Vinītadeva, Xuanzang, Yogācāra Abhidharmikas

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

buddhist texts also abhidhamma school according schools various early canonical dharmas lists sarvāstivāda different later doctrine tradition chinese held century

Abhidharma relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 358 structured relationships around Abhidharma. Examples in this analysis include Abhidharma → Bengali → অভিধর্ম্ম ôbhidhôrmmô and Abhidharma → Burmese → အဘိဓမ္မာ (MLCTS: əbḭdəmà). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
AbhidharmaBengaliঅভিধর্ম্ম ôbhidhôrmmô1.00infobox
AbhidharmaBurmeseအဘိဓမ္မာ (MLCTS: əbḭdəmà)1.00infobox
AbhidharmaChinese阿毗達磨(T) / 阿毗达磨(S) (Pinyin: āpídámó)1.00infobox
AbhidharmaEnglishhigher teaching, meta-teaching, about dharmas [phenomena]1.00infobox
AbhidharmaJapanese阿毘達磨 (Rōmaji: abidatsuma)1.00infobox
AbhidharmaKhmerអភិធម្ម (UNGEGN: âphĭthômm)1.00infobox
AbhidharmaKorean아비달마 阿毗達磨 (RR: abidalma)1.00infobox
AbhidharmaMongolianАвидарма1.00infobox
AbhidharmaPaliAbhidhamma1.00infobox
AbhidharmaSanskritअभिधर्मः1.00infobox
AbhidharmaSinhalaඅභිධර්මය (abhidharmaya)1.00infobox
AbhidharmaTagalogᜀᜊᜒᜇᜍ᜕ᜋ abidarma1.00infobox
AbhidharmaThaiอภิธรรม (RTGS: aphitham)1.00infobox
AbhidharmaTibetanཆོས་མངོན་པ་མཛོད།1.00infobox
AbhidharmaVietnamese阿毗達磨 A-tì-đạt-ma 阿毗達磨 Vi Diệu Pháp1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Abhidharma bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Texts, Buddhist and Canonical. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Abhidharma
    • Texts
    • Buddhist
    • Canonical
    • Also
    • According
    • Works
    • Mahāyāna
    • Sarvāstivāda
    • Different
    • Buddha
    • Later
    • Chinese
  • abhidharma
    • Texts
    • Buddhist
    • Canonical
    • Also
    • According
    • Works
    • Mahāyāna
    • Sarvāstivāda
    • Different
    • Buddha
    • Later
    • Chinese
  • foundational buddhist canons
    • Schools
    • Early
    • Texts
    • Doctrine
    • Different
    • Various
    • Canonical
    • Lists
    • Philosophy
    • Time
    • Later
    • According
  • abhidhamma piṭaka
    • Pali
    • Theory
    • Century
    • Theravada
    • Also
    • Dhammas
    • Text
    • Texts
    • Tradition
    • Lists
    • Buddhist
    • Early
  • early buddhist schools
    • Different
    • Lists
    • Schools
    • Early
    • Doctrinal
    • Various
    • Texts
    • Doctrine
    • School
    • Found
    • View
    • Canonical
  • buddhist doctrine
    • Schools
    • Early
    • Texts
    • Doctrine
    • Lists
    • Different
    • Doctrinal
    • Various
    • Canonical
    • Philosophy
    • Time
    • Bhikkhu
  • buddhist studies
    • Schools
    • Early
    • Texts
    • Doctrine
    • Different
    • Various
    • Canonical
    • Lists
    • Philosophy
    • Time
    • Later
    • According
  • early buddhist texts
    • Lists
    • Schools
    • Early
    • Doctrinal
    • Various
    • Texts
    • Doctrine
    • Different
    • Found
    • Canonical
    • Philosophy
    • Time

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Abhidharma, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Abhidharma with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Abhidharma — Overview · splits 155 ⟂ 69
Abhidharma — Doctrine · splits 178 ⟂ 46
Abhidharma — Mahāyāna Abhidharma · splits 195 ⟂ 29
Abhidharma — Theravāda Abhidhamma · splits 208 ⟂ 16
Abhidharma — Origin and history · splits 212 ⟂ 12
Abhidharma — Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma · splits 212 ⟂ 12
Abhidharma — Tattvasiddhi Śāstra · splits 212 ⟂ 12
Abhidharma — Definition · splits 213 ⟂ 11
Abhidharma — Other Abhidharma traditions · splits 213 ⟂ 11
Abhidharma — Sources · splits 219 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Abhidharma

Nodes224
Edges223
Triples358
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008929
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Abhidharma to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Doctrine & Mahāyāna Abhidharma, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Abhidharma · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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