A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics
Author: Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 0
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Introduction to Dhammasangani
Author: Department for the Promotion and Propagation of the Sāsana
Publisher: Pariyatti
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 1681723441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dhammasaṅgaṇī (Pāli; 'Collection of Dhammas') is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. It is the first of the seven books of the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. It contains a detailed enumeration of all phenomena. This introduction in a way may be regarded as a brief introduction to the Abhidhamma Piṭaka as a whole. It is in two parts. The first part is about Abhidhamma and the second part is about Dhammasaṅgaṇī.
Essential Teaching of the Dhammasaṅgaṇi from Abhidhamma
Author: P. B. Tan
Publisher:
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781798679388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDhammasaṅgani is the fundamental first book of the Pali Abhidhamma Pitaka. Its contents represent quintessence of the entire Theravada Abhidhamma philosophy. This book elaborates in considerable detail in six chapters, covering important topics on couplets and triplets of the Abhidhamma matrix, and couplets of the Suttanta matrix in the first chapter; the 89 states of consciousness (cittas) in the second chapter; 52 mental concomitants (cetasikas) and explain how each of these cetasikas correlates with the 89 states of consciousness in the third chapter; all aspects of corporeality in the fourth chapter; detail as to how the terms in each cluster from Abhidhamma matrix are to be applied are explained in the fifth chapter; enumerated expositions on the unconditioned element are given in the last chapter. Dhammasaṅgani expounds all conceivable phenomenal existence with these four ultimate realities: states of consciousness, mental concomitants, corporeality, and Nibbana. Many useful charts are included and explained in this book for assisting readers and students in enhancing their understanding.
The Book of Analysis (Vibhanga)
Author: Thittila (Ashin)
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 573
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is Dharma?
Author: Sangharakshita
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1907314334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo walk in the footsteps of the Buddha we need a clear and thorough guide to the essential principles of Buddhism. Whether we have just begun our journey or are a practitioner with more experience, What is the Dharma? is an indispensable exploration of the Buddha's teachings as found in the main Buddhist traditions.
Guide to Tipitaka
Author: Sayagyi U. Ko Lay
Publisher:
Published: 2018-11-10
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780353223288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies in Abhidharma Literature and the Origins of Buddhist Philosophical Systems
Author: Erich Frauwallner
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1996-01-10
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1438403275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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. He provides a clear explanation of the gradual development of Buddhist thought from its early doctrinal beginning to some of the most complex and remarkable philosophical edifices in history.
Abhidhamma Studies
Author: Nyanaponika (Thera)
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1998-03
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0861711351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Abhidhamma, the third great division of the early Buddhist teaching, maps out with remarkable rigor & 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 Abhidhamma's formidable face to make its principles intelligible to the thoughtful reader of today.
Sandalwood and Carrion
Author: James McHugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-11-29
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0199916322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India. Drawing on a wide range of textual sources, from poetry to medical texts, he shows the deeply significant religious and cultural role of smell in India throughout the first millennium CE. McHugh describes sophisticated arts of perfumery, developed in temples, monasteries, and courts, which resulted in worldwide ocean trade. He shows that various religious discourses on the purpose of life emphasized the pleasures of the senses, including olfactory experience, as a valid end in themselves. Fragrances and stenches were analogous to certain values, aesthetic or ethical, and in a system where karmic results often had a sensory impact-where evil literally stank-the ethical and aesthetic became difficult to distinguish. Sandalwood and Carrion explores smell in pre-modern India from many perspectives, covering such topics as philosophical accounts of smell perception, odors in literature, the history of perfumery in India, the significance of sandalwood in Buddhism, and the divine offering of perfume to the gods.
Abhidharmakosa-Bhasya of Vasubandhu
Author: Gelong Lodro Sangpo
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 941
ISBN-13: 8120836081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa-Bhasya (ca. 380-390), besides its culminating achievement in streamlining the overall structure of the exposition of the preceding Abhidharma manuals, is unmatched by any of the preceding manuals in respect of its comprehensiveness-incorporating all important Vaibhasika doctrines since the time of the Abhidharma-mahavibhasa-of its excellent skill in definition and elucidation, and of its ability to clarify the difficult point involved in doctrinal disputations. Added to these qualities is its great value as a brilliant critique and insightful revaluation of all the fundamental Sar-vastivada doctrines developed up to its time. Since its appearance, it has been used as a standard textbook for the understanding of not only the Abhidharma doctrines but all the fundamental Buddhist doctrines in general. Translated into Chinese by Paramartha in 563 A.D. and by Hsuan-tsang in 651-654 A.D., Hsuan-tsang's disciple P'u-kuang tells us that in India the Abhidharmakosa-Bhasya was hailed as the 'Book of Intelligence'. In China, Japan and the Far-east, too, the Kosa has generally been highly treasured as a textbook of fundamental importance for Buddhist studies. Vasubandhu's brilliant critique of the doctrines of the Vaibhasika was answered by the equally brilliant Samghabhadra - a contemporary staunch defender and expounder of the doctrines of the Vaibhasikas - in his masterwork, the Abhidharmanyayanusara, now extant only in Hsuan-tsang's translation (653-654 A.D.). The Sanskrit text, considered for a long time to be irremediably lost, was discovered by Rahula Samkrtyayana in 1935 in the Tibetan monastery of Ngor and was published by P. Pradhan in 1967 (1st edition).
