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Abhidhamma for the Beginner
By: Baptist
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No one would deny that the Abhidhamma is a difficult subject to study, for it is the quintessence of the Buddhas teachings, and requires deep insight and understanding into the fundamental principles of Buddhism. I have, however, always felt that the subject could be made simple. I was very glad, therefore, surprised indeed, to find that with deep insight, Mr. Baptist had actually succeeded in presenting the main elements of the Abhidhamma in the language of the man-in-the-street. Anyone with average intelligence should be able to profit by this book considerably. To my knowledge, no book has yet appeared on so deep a subject in so simple a language. Mr. Baptist is to be congratulated on his achievement. Nay, I would go further and suggest that this book should now be translated into Sinhalese that it may reach a wider circle of students, and be made the basis of future Abhidhamma studies to beginners.
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Abhidhamma Philosophy
By: Pandey
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The present book authored by Acariya Anuruddha Mahathera during the 11th-12th Century A.D. Several other books with the title Abhidhamma Philosophy have been published even then this work has retained the same title Abhidhamma Philosophy partly to preserve its continuity with its predecessor-books and partly because the earlier published books are either translation of the Abidhammatthasangaho or translation with explanatory notes on the Abhidhammic terms. While the present book makes a systematic study of the Abhidhamma-pitaka, and compiled in condensed form in the Abhidhammatthasangaho.
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Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Exploration of Consciousness and Time
By: Thera, Nyanaponika
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The Abhidhamma, the third great division of early Buddhist teaching, expounds a revolutionary system of philosophical psychology rooted in the twin Buddhist insights of selflessness and dependent origination. In keeping with the liberative thrust of early Buddhism this system organizes the entire spectrum of human consciousness. It maps out with remarkable rigor and precision, the inner landscape of the mind to be crossed through the practical work of Buddhist meditation. In this groundbreaking book Venerable Nyanaponika Thera penetrates the formidable face of the Abhidhamma and makes its principles intelligible to the thoughtful reader of today. Basing his approach on the detailed list of mental factors that the Abhidhamma uses as a guide to psychological analysis he launches into bold explorations of the multiple dimensions of conditionality the nature of consciousness the temporality of experience and the psychological springs of spiritual transformation. Innovative and rich in insights this book does not merely open up new avenues in the academic study of early Buddhism-it also demonstrates the continuing relevance of Buddhist thought to our most astute contemporary efforts to understand the elusive yet intimate nature of the mind.
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Abhidhammapitake Puggalapannattipali with English translation
By: Dr. Om Prakash Pathak, Dr. Veena Gaur
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The Puggalapannatti is (he concept of notion or designation of the personality in this world. This book contains ten chapters. Each chapter deals with a number of persons from different angles. The treatment and classification of individuals have been made in an ascending numerical order. The first deals with one type of persons i.e. single individuals, the second with pairs, the third with groups of three and so on. This makes ten fold classifications of persons. Here in this book it has been taken into consideration of their ethical behaviour, mental attitude - like latent factors, belief, and other difiling and purifying factors connected with the worldly and spiritual life. In this way, it appears mere a book of psychology than of Philosophy.
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Abhidharma Doctrines and Controversies on Perception
By: Dhammajoti
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This book deals with the Buddhist theories of perception
of the Abhidharma schools, particularly the Vaibhshika
and the Sautrantika-Darstantika. It offers a wealth of
information from the Sanskrit and Chinese sources,
of which those from the Abhidharma-mahvibh and
Nyyanusra are especially valuable, being available only in classical Chinese translation.
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Abhidharma Kosa Bhasyam
By: Vasubandhu / Louis De La Vallee Poussin Tr. / Leo M. Pruden, Tr.
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A translation of Vasubandhu's Abhidharma Kosa Bhasyam.
The Sanskrit word "Abhidharma" means the systematic philosophy of Buddhism. From the time of the Buddha onward, the Buddha's disciples, and many later generations of his followers studied, analyzed, and re-classified the teachings of the Buddha, and in the process created a unique field of study which has come to be known as the Abhidharma. Only a small but important portion of Abhidharma literature has been preserved in its original Sanskrit: Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosabhasyam, and its commentary, Yasomitra's Vyakhya
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Abhidharma Samuccaya
By: Asanga
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The Compendium Of The Higher Teaching (Philosophy)
The Abhidharmasamuccaya is an extremely important text of Mahayana Abhidharma. It contains nearly all the main teachings of the Mahayana and can be considered as the summary of all the works by Asanga. The method of treatment of the subjects in this work is the same as the traditional method found in the texts of the Pali Abhidhamma which preceded it by several centuries, such as the Dhammasangani, Vibhanga and Dhatukatha: posing a question and answering it.
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Abhidharmasamuccaya
By: Traleg Rinpoche
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We will be exploring the Abhidharmasamuccaya, a text that belongs to the later development of Buddhism. Early Buddhism is known as Theravadin or Hinayana Buddhism. Later Buddhism is known as Mahayana Buddhism. It has two schools: Madhyamika, the school of the middle way, and Yogacara, the practitioners of yoga. Yoga, in this case, has very little to do with physical dexterity, with how you can twist your arms or fiddle your toes. It is very much related with learning how to meditate properly and relate to one's own mind, with trying to understand the sort of mental states we go through in meditation and so on. The Abhidharmasamuccaya presents that kind of overall structure, in the fullest sense.
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Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, A Abhidhammattha Sangaha
By: Bhikkhu Bodhi
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The Abhidhamma is the Buddhist analysis of mind and mental processes, a wide-ranging systemization of the Buddha’s teaching that combnes philosophy, psychology, and ethics into a unique and remarkable synthesis. The Buddhist monks and scholars of southern Asia hold the Abhidhamma in the highest regard, pursuing its study with great diligence.
For 800 years, a little treatise in the Pali language called the Abhidhammattha Sangaha (Manual of Abhidhamma) has served as the key to open this treasure store of Buddhist wisdom. In this work, the author, Acariya Anurudda, concisely surveys the central topics of Abhidhamma: states of consciousness and mental factors, the functions and processes of the mind, the material world, dependent arising, the methods and stages of meditation.
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Development in the Early Buddhist Concept of Kamma / Karma
By: James McDermott
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One of the cental concepts in Buddhism is the idea of kamma. Although the importance of karma in Buddhist thought is regularly recognized, the question remains whether the Buddhist understnading of the principal of karma has been inalterabley fixed, or whether it has undergone a rocess of development and modification during the course of Buddhist history. if, indeed, the Buddhist understand of karma has not been static, what kinds of development has it undergone? It is to these questions that this study addresses itself.
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Early Buddhist Metaphysics; The Making of a Philosophical Tradition (Paperback)
By: Noa Ronkin
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This book provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the systematic and allegedly scholastic philosophy of the Pali Abhidhamma movement. Conceptual investigation into the development of Buddhist ideas is pursued, thus rendering the Buddha's philosophical position more explicit and showing how and why his successors changed it.
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Early Buddhist Metaphysics; The Making of a Philosophical Tradition
By: Noa Ronkin
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This book provides a philosophical account of the major doctrinal shift in the history of early Theravada tradition in India: the transition from the earliest stratum of Buddhist thought to the systematic and allegedly scholastic philosophy of the Pali Abhidhamma movement. Conceptual investigation into the development of Buddhist ideas is pursued, thus rendering the Buddha's philosophical position more explicit and showing how and why his successors changed it.
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Five Aggregates: Understanding Theravada Psychology and Soteriology
By: Mathieu Boisvert
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In this study Mathieu Boisvert presents a detailed analysis of the
five aggregates (pancakkhandha) and establishes how the Theravada
tradition views their interaction. He clarifies the fundamentals of
Buddhist psychology by providing a rigorous examination of the nature
and interrelation of each of the aggregates and by establishing, for
the first time, how the function of each of these aggregates chains
beings to the cycle of birth, death and rebirth - the theory of
dependent origination (paticcasamuppada). Boisvert contends that
without a thorough understanding of the five aggregates, we cannot
grasp the liberation process at work within the individual, who is,
after all, simply an amalgam of the five aggregates.
The Five Aggregates
represents an important and original contribution to Buddhist studies
and will be of great interest to all scholars and students of Buddhism.
The Five Aggregates, Mathieu Boisvert, Sri Satguru, Hardcover, 1995/1997,166 Pages, $12.00
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Gateway to Knowledge: Vol 1
By: Mipham Rinpoche
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The Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries. Consolidating the intent of Buddha Shakyamuni’s teachings into unified body of text books, it is the philosophical backbone of the living tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This rich source book embodies the basics of Prajnaparamita and Madhyamika as well as the Abhidharma from both the Mahayana and Hinayana perspective.
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Glimpses of Abhidharma
By: Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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The Abhidharma is a collection of Buddhist scriptures that investigates the workings of the mind and the states of human consciousness. In this book Chogyam Trungpa dicussses the development of ego as it is explained in the Abhidharma.
From the Buddhist perspective, the creation of ego is a neurotic process based on fundamental ignorance of our true situation.
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Identity and Experience: The Constitution of the Human Being According to Early Buddhism
By: Sue Hamilton
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In early Buddhist texts human beings are analyzed in terms of five "bundles", one physical - the body - and four mental - feelings, apperception, volition, and consciousness. These are traditionally understood to be the five constituent 'part' of which the human being is comprised. For her study of the texts, the author has
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Introduction to Abhidharmakosa Bhasyam
By: Indra Narain Singh
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam is the most instructive book on the philosophy of early Buddhism. This is a well-known Buddhist work for its harmonious synthesis of all the great doctrines accepted by most of the contemporary schools of Buddhism, It contains fundamental principles of Buddhism and also an exhaustive and systematic exposition of the Abhidharma doctrines of the old schools of Buddhism that came into being after the Buddha.This text is a treasury of highest forms of knowledge. It deals with ontology, psychology, cosmology, salvation and ethical related doctrine. All major schools of Buddhism accept the authority of Abhidharma in spite of the difference in their sectarian viewpoints with regard to interpretations. This text is important as it contains systematically the fundamental principle of the Abhidharma philosophy.
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Life and Marriage in Skya Rgya, a Tibetan Village
By: Blo brtan rdo rje
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Life and Marriage in Skya rgya, a Tibetan Village is an important achievement, delving deep into contemporary Tibetan society, enabling us to explore the crucial negotiations between tradition and modernity, both individually and collectively, that confront present-day Tibetan villagers.
The ethnographic discussion of songs, marriage practices, and narratives gives us direct insight into the lives, experiences and expectations of ordinary Tibetans, sharing the joys and pains, and the hopes and fears of these Tibetans, old and young. We observe how the dilemmas and celebrations that characterized an earlier era persist and evolve as the local society is propelled into twenty-first century China. Blo brtan rdo rje’s honest rendering of the details of his family life make this a page-turning account of life in a rural Tibetan area that is vanishing.
Life and Marriage in Skya Rgya, a Tibetan Village, Blo brtan rdo rje, YBK Publishers, Paperback, 2008, 195 Pages, $36.00
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Mind and its Function
By: Geshe Rabten
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Understanding the nature of mind and the many mental factors is the basis of the philosophic systems of Tibet. Part One presents a primarily epistemological model of the mind based on the Pramana literature. Part Two focuses on the psychological model of the mind as presented in the Abhidharma literature.
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Philosophy and Psychology in the Abhidharma
By: Guenther
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The study of the Abhidharma is indispensable for understanding the history of Buddhist philosophy and practice. this book gives a synoptic view of the significance of the Abhidharma as presented by the Theravadins and brought to its climax by the Vaibhasikas and Yogacara-Vijnanavadins. It analyzes the concepts of Mind and its Sates with reference to healthy and unhealthy attitudes towards life and deals with the psychological factors and problems in Meditation which is geared to an individual's capacity and temperament.
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Puggalapannatti: A Buddhist Concept on Human Psychology
By: Bhikkhu Ratanasri
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The Puggalapannatti is (he concept of notion or designation of the personality in this world. This book contains ten chapters. Each chapter deals with a number of persons from different angles. The treatment and classification of individuals have been made in an ascending numerical order. The first deals with one type of persons i.e. single individuals, the second with pairs, the third with groups of three and so on. This makes ten fold classifications of persons. Here in this book it has been taken into consideration of their ethical behaviour, mental attitude - like latent factors, belief, and other difiling and purifying factors connected with the worldly and spiritual life. In this way, it appears mere a book of psychology than of Philosophy.
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Rebirth and Causation in the Yogacara Abhidharma
By: Robert Kritzer
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Rebirth and Causation in the Yogacara Abhidharma, Robert Kritzer, Arbeitskreis fur Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Paperback , 326pp., $54.95
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Seven Works of Vasubandhu
By: Stefan Anacker
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Vasubandhu, one of the most famous Mahayana Buddhist philosophers, wrote works on a vast variety of subjects. This collection of translations includes the Vada-Vidhi, a work on logic; the Panca-skandhaka-prakarana, which deals with the 'aggregates' making up 'personality'; the Karmasiddhi-prakarana, which in explaining psychic continuity, also attacks many features of earlier Buddhist psychology; the famous Vimsatika and Trimsika, which take Buddhist psychology into hitherto unexplored areas; the Madhyanta-Vibhaga-bhasya, one of the most profound books for Mahayana realization; and the Tri-svabhava-nirdesa which shows a way for ridding consciousness of ensnaring mental constructions.
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Studies in Abhidharma Literature and the Origins of Buddhist Philosophical Systems
By: Frauwallner
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This is a translation of Frauwallner's Abhidharmastudien. It analyzes the literary traditions, doctrinal tendencies, and structural methods of the Buddhist Abhidarma canon in order to expose the beginnings of systematic philosophical thought in Buddhism. Frauwallner's insights illuminate the path of meditation toward liberation, the development of Buddhist psychology, and the evolution of the Buddhist view of causality and the problem of time.
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Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library
By: Jacob Dalton and Sam van Schaik
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Since their discovery a century ago, the Dunhuang manuscripts have revolutionized the study of Asian religions. Until recently, however, the rich materials relating to esoteric tantric Buddhism have been largely ignored. This volume provides an indispensable doorway into these materials. An introduction summarizes the discovery, worldwide dissemination and general character of these Tibetan treasures. The catalogue entries provide introductory discussions of the manuscripts contents, in addition to reordering the often scrambled folios, linking them to their long-lost counterparts in other collections, and matching them with corresponding texts in the Tibetan canon. The catalogue includes indices to Tibetan and Sanskrit titles, names and terms, as well as all Pelliot manuscripts referenced. The result is an invaluable resource for scholars of Buddhism.
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Treatise on Buddhist Philosophy of Abhidhamma
By: DeSilva, C. L. A.
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The Greater the knowledge one possesses of Abhidhamma, the more easily nd sooner will he be able to eradicate the erroneous views of a personal entity-ego-theory of soul or atman and cast away the sixteen typs of doubt with impede one's spirtiual progress, and contemplate on the three salient marks or characterstics from the knowlege which is qualification fro the path and gain emanicipation. The present book is divided into three parts in 13 chapters. In the beginning ther is a detailed introduction.
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