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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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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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Doctrine

Theravāda Abhidhamma

Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma

Other Abhidharma traditions

Tattvasiddhi Śāstra

Mahāyāna Abhidharma

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related to Sources · 79
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related to External links · 30
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related to Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma · 28
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related to Tattvasiddhi Śāstra · 27
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related to Modern scholarship · 26
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related to Theravāda Abhidhamma · 24
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related to Other Abhidharma traditions · 17
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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

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

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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

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