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The Dhammasaṅgaṇi

Author : Eduard Müller-Hess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00023301

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Dhammasangani

Author : Edward Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0860130940

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Essential Teaching of the Dhammasaṅgaṇi from Abhidhamma

Author : P. B. Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1798679388

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Essential Teaching of the Dhammasaṅgaṇi from Abhidhamma by P. B. Tan Pdf

Dhammasaṅgani 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.

Text, History, and Philosophy

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004318823

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Text, History, and Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

In Text, History, and Philosophy. Abhidharma Across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions, the development of the Abhidharma genre in South and East Asia from the life time of the historical Buddha to the tenth century CE is discussed.

Rewriting Buddhism

Author : Alastair Gornall
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787355156

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Rewriting Buddhism by Alastair Gornall Pdf

Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of political stability, as is often thought, but rather of the social, economic and political chaos brought about by invasions and civil wars. Faced with unprecedented uncertainty, the monastic community sought greater political autonomy, styled itself as royal court, and undertook a series of reforms, most notably, a purification and unification in 1165 during the reign of Parakramabahu I. He describes how central to the process of reform was the production of new forms of Pali literature, which helped create a new conceptual and social coherence within the reformed community; one that served to preserve and protect their religious tradition while also expanding its reach among the more fragmented and localized elites of the period.

The Theravada Abhidhamma

Author : Y. Karunadasa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614294696

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The Theravada Abhidhamma by Y. Karunadasa Pdf

A lucid explanation of the basic contours of the Theravada Abhidamma system for serious students of Buddhist thought. The renowned Sri Lankan scholar Y. Karunadasa examines Abhidhamma perspectives on the nature of phenomenal existence. He begins with a discussion of dhamma theory, which describes the bare phenomena that form the world of experience. He then explains the Abhidhamma view that only dhammas are real, and that anything other than these basic phenomena are conceptual constructs. This, he argues, is Abhidhamma’s answer to common-sense realism—the mistaken view that the world as it appears to us is ultimately real. Among the other topics discussed are the theory of double truth (ultimate and conceptual truth), the analysis of mind, the theory of cognition, the analysis of matter, the nature of time and space, the theory of momentary being, and conditional relations. The volume concludes with an appendix that examines why the Theravada came to be known as Vibhajjavada, “the doctrine of analysis.” Not limiting himself to abstract analysis, Karunadasa draws out the Abhidhamma’s underlying premises and purposes. The Abhidhamma provides a detailed description of reality in order to identify the sources of suffering and their antidotes—and in doing so, to free oneself.

Index to the Dhammasaṅgaṇi

Author : Tetsuya Tabata,Satoshi Nonome,Shōkō Bando
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UOM:39015072462321

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In the Mirror of Memory

Author : Janet Gyatso
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791410773

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This book studies the diverse array of species of memory in Buddhism. Contributors focus on a particular school, group of texts, terms, or practices and identify a considerable range of types of mnemonic faculties in Buddhism. Included are discussions of Buddhist teaching, meditation, visualization, prayer, commemoration of the Buddha, dha?rani practice, the use of mnemonic lists to condense lengthy scriptures, and the purported recollection of infinite previous lives that immediately preceded Sakyamuni's attainment of Buddhahood. Even enlightened awareness itself is said by some Buddhist schools to consist in a "mnemic engagement" with reality as such. The authors explore Buddhist views on mundane acts of memory such as recognizing, reminding, memorizing, and storing data as well as special types of memory that are cultivated in religious practice.One of the most striking discoveries is that perception is intimately related to certain types of memory. Several essays investigate if, and if so, how, meditative mindfulness and recollection of the past--both of which can be designated by the term smrti--are connected within the Buddhist tradition. The question of whether recollection of the past can be explained without violating the foundational Buddhist notions of radical impermanence and no-self is addressed by several of the contributing scholars. Among the primary sources for the studies in this volume are the northern and southern Abhidharma literature, the Ma?tka?s, Pa?li and Maha?ya?na su?tras, works of the Buddhist logicians, Yoga?ca?ra materials, the Tibetan Great Perfection (Rdzogschen) tradition, and Indian and Tibetan commentarial works. Affinities of Buddhist views on memory with those found in Western phenomenology, semiology, psychology, and history of religions are considered as well.

Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging

Author : Gavin D'Costa,Ross Thompson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134801381

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Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging by Gavin D'Costa,Ross Thompson Pdf

A growing number of people describe themselves as both Buddhist and Christian; but does such a self-description really make sense? Many people involved in inter-faith dialogue argue that this dialogue leads to a mutually transformative process, but what if the transformation reaches the point where the Buddhist or Christian becomes a Buddhist Christian? Does this represent a fulfilment of or the undermining of dialogue? Exploring the growing phenomenon of Buddhist-Christian dual belonging, a wide variety of authors including advocates, sympathisers and opponents from both faiths, focus on three key questions: Can Christian and Buddhist accounts and practices of salvation or liberation be reconciled? Are Christian theism and Buddhist non-theism compatible? And does dual belonging inevitably distort the essence of these faiths, or merely change its cultural expression? Clarifying different ways of justifying dual belonging, contributors offer criticisms of dual belonging from different religious perspectives (Theravada Buddhist, Evangelical Reformed and Roman Catholic) and from different methodological approaches. Four chapters then carry the discussion forward suggesting ways in which dual belonging might make sense from Catholic, Theravada Buddhist, Pure-land Buddhist and Anglican perspectives. The conclusion clarifies the main challenges emerging for dual belongers, and the implications for interreligious dialogue.

Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism

Author : Soonil Hwang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134254347

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Soonil Hwang studies the doctrinal development of nirvana in the Pali Nikaaya and subsequent tradition and compares it with the Chinese aagama and its traditional interpretation. He clarifies early doctrinal developments of Nirvana and traces the word and related terms back to their original metaphorical contexts, elucidating diverse interpretations and doctrinal and philosophical developments in the abhidharma exegeses and treatises of Southern and Northern Buddhist schools. The book finally examines which school, if any, kept the original meaning and reference of Nirvana.

Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature

Author : Rafal K. Stepien
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438480725

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Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature by Rafal K. Stepien Pdf

Can literature reveal reality? Is philosophical truth a literary artifice? How does the way we think affect what we can know? Buddhism has been grappling with these questions for centuries, and this book attempts to answer them by exploring the relationship between literature and philosophy across the classical and contemporary Buddhist worlds of India, Tibet, China, Japan, Korea, and North America. Written by leading scholars, the book examines literary texts composed over two millennia, ranging in form from lyric verse, narrative poetry, panegyric, hymn, and koan, to novel, hagiography, (secret) autobiography, autofiction, treatise, and sutra, all in sustained conversation with topics in metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophies of mind, language, literature, and religion. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, this book deliberately works across and against the boundaries separating three mainstays of humanistic pursuit—literature, philosophy, and religion—by focusing on the multiple relationships at play between content and form in works drawn from a truly diverse range of philosophical schools, literary genres, religious cultures, and historical eras. Overall, the book calls into question the very ways in which we do philosophy, study literature, and think about religious texts. It shows that Buddhist thought provides sophisticated responses to some of the perennial problems regarding how we find, create, and apply meaning—on the page, in the mind, and throughout our lives.

History of Indian Philosophy

Author : Purushottama Bilimoria
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317356172

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History of Indian Philosophy by Purushottama Bilimoria Pdf

The History of Indian Philosophy is a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the movements and thinkers that have shaped Indian philosophy over the last three thousand years. An outstanding team of international contributors provide fifty-eight accessible chapters, organised into three clear parts: knowledge, context, concepts philosophical traditions engaging and encounters: modern and postmodern. This outstanding collection is essential reading for students of Indian philosophy. It will also be of interest to those seeking to explore the lasting significance of this rich and complex philosophical tradition, and to philosophers who wish to learn about Indian philosophy through a comparative lens.

A Buddhist manual of psychologial ethics of the fourth century B.C., a tr. of the Dhamma-Sangṇi, with intr. essay and notes by C.A.F. Rhys Davids

Author : Abhidhammapiṭaka Dhammasaṅgaṇi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:602567101

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A Buddhist manual of psychologial ethics of the fourth century B.C., a tr. of the Dhamma-Sangṇi, with intr. essay and notes by C.A.F. Rhys Davids by Abhidhammapiṭaka Dhammasaṅgaṇi Pdf

Abhidharmakosa-Bhasya of Vasubandhu

Author : Gelong Lodro Sangpo,Bhikkhu K. L. Dhammajoti
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788120836082

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Abhidharmakosa-Bhasya of Vasubandhu by Gelong Lodro Sangpo,Bhikkhu K. L. Dhammajoti Pdf

Vasubandhu'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).

The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism

Author : Paul Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134291441

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The Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism by Paul Fuller Pdf

The notion of 'view' or 'opinion' (ditthi) as an obstacle to 'seeing things as they are' is a central concept in Buddhist thought. This book considers the two ways in which the notion of views are usually understood. Are we to understand right-view as a correction of wrong-views (the opposition understanding) or is the aim of the Buddhist path the overcoming of all views, even right-view (the no-views understanding)? The author argues that neither approach is correct. Instead he suggests that the early texts do not understand right-view as a correction of wrong-view, but as a detached order of seeing, completely different from the attitude of holding to any view, wrong or right.