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This is explained fully and clearly in the Abhidhamma, the most important and special teaching of The Buddha.
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He spent Lent (three months) there, preaching the Abhidhamma (the profound teaching of Buddha) to His mother goddess and the other gods.
The Full Moon Day of Thadingyut or Lighting Festival of Burma 2008
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The other ‘Hinayana’ schools in north India (such as Sarvastivada & Dharmaguptaka) went extinct after the Moslem invasions, tho some of their scriptures (their Abhidhamma and the Vinaya) were translated into Chinese and are still used in Mahayana countries to this day.
Another religious assault on education - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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_Abhidhamma_, a more elaborate and more classified exposition of the Dhamma or doctrine as set out in the _Nik [= a] yas_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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These four – analytical knowledge in meaning, doctrine, interpretation, and distinctions – are very variously interpreted, both in works of Abhidhamma content (Paṭisambhidāmagga, Vibhanga) and in commentarial writings of various later dates (see Childers's Dictionary, s.v.).
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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Abhidhamma, translated by S.Z. Aung and Mrs Rhys Davids, 1910, 152 f.
Mysticism in English Literature Caroline F. E. Spurgeon 1905
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It seems probable that the Abhidhamma books of all schools consisted almost entirely of explanatory matter and added very little to the doctrine laid down in the suttas.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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The point of view of the Abhidhamma is certainly later than that of the Sutta Pitaka and in some ways marks an advance, for instead of professing to report the discourses of Gotama it takes the various topics on which he touched, especially psychological ethics, and treats them in a connected and systematic manner.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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Abhidhamma when he went to heaven to preach to the gods, and this seems
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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The third Pitaka is known by the name of Abhidhamma.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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