A Perfect Knowledge of Mind-Body from the Abhidhamma (Dhātukathā)

A Perfect Knowledge of Mind-Body from the Abhidhamma (Dhātukathā)
Author: P B Tan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2019-08-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781687647290

This book examines the states in question based on four principles: including, not-including, association, dissociation. There are 371 states of inquiry which consist of 105 internal states, are taken from the first 13 Chapters of the second book, Vibhanga; and 266 external states, are taken from triads and dyads in Dhammasangani. These 371 states are first examined in Chapter 1 whereby states of inquiry from the subsequent thirteen chapters are later based on. These states are examined using fourteen methods, through the different combinations of states and different combinations of the four principles, for answers in terms of aggregates, bases, and elements. These fourteen methods end with 2453 states of inquiry which allow us to examine all conceivable mental phenomena with reference to the three schemata of aggregates, bases, and elements. I have included a chart and analytical answers, not whole numbers but in specifics, for every of these states of inquiry. I have also provided 35 charts by various other classifications in appendixes as references to the contents and as supplementary guide.

An Analysis of Mind from the Vibhanga in Abhidhamma

An Analysis of Mind from the Vibhanga in Abhidhamma
Author: P. B. Tan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2016-09-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537740966

This book covers the eighteen treatises of the original scripture of Vibhanga, the second book of the Theravada Abhidhamma corpus. A total of 273 tables, 30 diagrams, and lucidly-defined outlines of points and summaries are used extensively throughout this book to present the contents of the original text as lively as possible to readers. The treatises are divided into three distinct groups. The first group containing the Five Aggregates, Twelve Sense-Bases, Eighteen Elements, Four Noble Truths, Twenty-Two Controlling Faculties, and Dependent Origination, are the fundamental requisites for developing our right views and wisdom. The second group contains the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Four Right Strivings, Four Means to Accomplishment, Seven Factors of Enlightenment, Noble Eightfold Path, and Jhana, provide the basis for practicing wisdom using the different approaches, all of which are interdependent modular functions connecting one to another. The third group contains the Illimitables, Precepts, Analytical Insight, kinds of Knowledge, numerical list of defilement, and kernel of the Buddha's teaching - provide supplementary information illuminated in extensive details not apropos to being dealt with in the preceding twelve Chapters.

A History of Mindfulness

A History of Mindfulness
Author: Bhikkhu Sujato
Publisher: Bhikkhu Sujato
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2011-07-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1921842091

The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta is the most influential scripture in Buddhist meditation. It is the foundation text for the modern schools of 'vipassanā' or 'insight' meditation. The well-known Pali discourse is, however, only one of many early Buddhist texts that deal with mindfulness. This is the first full-scale study to encompass all extant versions of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, taking into account the dynamic evolution of the Buddhist scriptures and the broader Indian meditative culture. A new vision emerges from this groundbreaking study: mindfulness is not a system of 'dry insight' but is the 'way to convergence' leading the mind to deep states of peace.

Early Buddhist Metaphysics

Early Buddhist Metaphysics
Author: Noa Ronkin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2005-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134283121

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 of the Pali Abhidhamma movement.

The Theravada Abhidhamma

The Theravada Abhidhamma
Author: Y. Karunadasa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1614294690

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.

Essential Teaching of the Dhammasaṅgaṇi from Abhidhamma

Essential Teaching of the Dhammasaṅgaṇi from Abhidhamma
Author: P. B. Tan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781798679388

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.

Early Buddhism and the Bhagavadgītā

Early Buddhism and the Bhagavadgītā
Author: Kashi Nath Upadhyaya
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 598
Release: 1997-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9788120808805

This is a critical and philosophical analysis and assessment of the teachings of Buddha as Found in the Early Stratum of the Pali Canon and those of Lord Krsna as embodied in the Bhagvadgita. It is the first time that the foundational works of the two most important traditions of Indian thought have been brought together for comperative treatment.The Widely prevalent openion among scholars that Hindu thought did not have any significant contact with Pali Buddhism, might perhaps be one of the reasons why no attempt has previously been made to undertake a comparative study of Bhagwadgita and early Buddhism. The author covers the whole field of epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics in detail and depth, and bases his conclusions throughout on the original texts, making careful examinations of, and paing due attention, to the commentatiorialexegeses and scholarly interpretations.