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Abhayākaragupta
(11th/12th cent.).Buddhist monk and scholar, especially of Tantric Buddhism. He was born a brahman, but became Buddhist in response to a vision. He wrote many works on monastic discipline ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
(Pali; Skt., abhidharma, ‘special teaching’),
Buddhist reflection, often analytic, on the meaning of the Buddha's teaching. The Abhidhamma Piṭaka
Abhidhamma-avatāra
‘An Introduction to Abhidhamma’, being the title of a treatise on Abhidharma (Pāli, Abhidhamma) composed in India by Buddhadatta. The work is mostly in verse and comparable to the Visudhimagga of ...
Abhidhammattha-saṇgaha
‘A Compendium of Abhidhamma’. A summary of the essential points of Abhidharma (Pāli, Abhidhamma) philosophy composed sometime in the 11th or 12th century by Anuruddha, a resident of the Mūlasoma ...
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A Dictionary of Buddhism
(Skt.; Pāli, Abhidhamma).
Term meaning ‘higher doctrine’ and denoting the scholastic analysis of religious teachings. The earliest Abhidharma material was
Abhidharma-dīpa
‘Lamp of Abhidharma’, being a Sarvāstivādin Abhidharma text of uncertain authorship, though sometimes thought to have been composed by Vasumitra in response to Vasubandhu's Abhidharma-kośa. The text, ...
Abhidharma-kośa
‘Treasury of Abhidharma’, a key Abhidharma text in verse written by Vasubandhu and summarizing Sarvāstivādin tenets in eight chapters with a total of about 600 verses. The verses are then commented ...
Abhidharma-samuccaya
An Abhidharma text composed in prose by the Yogācārin scholar-monk Asaṇga. Largely Mahāyāna in orientation, the treatise conforms in structure to the pattern of traditional Abhidharma texts. This ...
ākāśa
In the Vedic texts and the Upaniṣads, ākāśa is used to convey the idea of world-space, i.e. the expanse in which everything lives and operates (that which allows space); in the Chāndogya Upaniṣad ...
anitya
(Skt., ‘not-permanent’).In Hinduism, the characteristic of māyā, understood not in its derived sense of ‘illusion’, but as transitory nature of all appearance. In Buddhism (Pāli anicca), the concept ...
Anuruddha
1 A close companion of the Buddha, who was present at his death. To him is attributed the recitation and thus preservation of Anguttara-Nikāya.2 Theravādin Buddhist scholar of uncertain ...
apratisaṃkhyā-nirodha
(Skt.). A state of trance known as ‘unconscious cessation’ that arises during meditation but which is uninformed by insight (prajñā). In the Abhidharmic systems of the Sarvāstivāda andYogacāra ...
asaṃskṛta
(Skt.). The ‘unconditioned’, a term referring to anything that transcends conditioned (saṃskṛta) existence in the state of saṃsāra. The number of items deemed to be unconditioned varied according to ...
Atthasālinī
Commentary on the Dhammasaṇgaṇī, the first book of the Abhidharma Piṭaka of the Pāli Canon. A work of the school of Buddhaghoṣa (according to its introduction it was written at his request), it was ...
bhavaṇga
(Pāli).Concept evolved primarily in Pāli Abhidharma commentarial literature in order to explain the continuity of consciousness and personal identity in the absence of a permanent self (the latter ...
caitta
(Skt.). Term in Buddhist psychology (being a later form of caitasika) denoting derivative mental states or functions of the mind (citta). Lists of these, derived from the sūtras and differing in ...
cetasika
(Pāli; Skt., caitasika). An early Abhidharma term denoting psychological phenomena of various kinds that arise in the mind (citta) as it encounters and processes phenomena. There are 52 according to ...
citta
A technical term used in Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra to designate the complex of buddhi, ahaṃkāra, and manas. Yoga is defined (Yoga Sūtra 1.2) as ‘the control of the fluctuations of the mind-field’ ...
cuti-citta
(Pāli, death.consciousness) The final moment of consciousness (vijñāna) in this life, according to the Abhidharma classification of consciousness into fourteen functions. See also Bhavaṇga.
Dhammasaṇgaṇī
The first book of the Abhidharma Piṭaka of the Pāli Canon, which appears to have been also called Dhammasaṇgaha. Being a compilation from various sources, it deals with more or less the same topics ...
