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ABHIDHARMA In the centuries after the death of the Buddha, with the advent of settled monastic communities, there emerged new fo ...
authority of abhidharma texts and included them within their canons as the word of the Buddha, several schools rejected the auth ...
5.Yamaka(Pairs); 6.Patthana(Foundational Conditions); and 7.Kathavatthu(Points of Discussion). The Sarvastivada canonical ...
repositories of several centuries of scholastic activity representing multiple branches of the Sarvastivada school, which was ...
invoked only as a supplemental authority to buttress independent reasoned investigations or to corroborate doctrinal points actu ...
perduring, unchanging, independent self (atman) could be found. In abhidharmatreatises the focus of ontological concern shifted ...
tic technique whereby certain passages or texts were judged to have explicit meaning (nltartha) expressing absolute truth or r ...
Worlds (loka) Action (karma) Contaminants (anus ́aya) Path of Religious Praxis and Religious Persons (margapudgala) Knowledge ...
the focus of numerous ARHATcults, such as those de- voted to the worship of the disciples UPAGUPTAand MAHAKAS ́YAPA. The MAHA ...
Buddhists have adopted a variety of strategies for re- lating theory with practice. In Thailand, for example, one approach makes ...
schools whose literature has been preserved divided the Sutrapitaka further into sections called Agama or Nikaya. Neither te ...
schools. However, very little is known about the use or ritual and educational functions of the collections dur- ing early times ...
beings in action, the Ajantastyle “cosmologizes” land- scapes and beings. It thus expresses the simultaneously transcendental ...
sculpture at its back end and rich wall paintings that are mainly variants of the Vajradhatu-mandala based on the Tibetan tra ...
generally linked to the soft radiance of the setting sun, which suffuses, without burning or blinding, all cor- ners of the univ ...
carried folded up and put into a breast pocket; it would be sacrilegious to carry them in a lower pocket. These amulets are espe ...
chose Ananda to serve as his attendant. Thus, Ananda became the Buddha’s constant companion for the twenty-five years precedin ...
ANATHAPINDADA Sudatta, usually called Anathapindada (Pali, Anath- apindika; Giver of Alms to the Destitute), the wealt ...
objects, called spheres (ayatana), include both sense and sense-object, the meeting of which two is neces- sary for consciousne ...
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