Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 328 pages
- Published by: Kessinger Publishing June 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0766165884
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0766165885
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Book Dimensions:
11 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Description
1910. For nearly eight centuries this work served as a primer of psychology and philosophy in Ceylon and Burma, and a whole literature of exegesis grew up around it. This enyclopedia is a concise statement of the view of things, with purely theoretical analysis, and is a invaluable textbook for students of Buddhism.
Reader Reviews"The nucleus of the present book is a medieval compendium of Buddhist philosophy entitled the Abhidhammattha Sangaha. This work is ascribed to Acariya Anuruddha, a Buddhist savant about whom so little is known that even his country of origin and the exact century in which he lived remain in question. Nevertheless, despite the personal obscurity that surrounds the author, his little manual has become one of the most important and influential textbooks of Theravada Buddhism. In nine short chapters occupying about fifty pages in print, the author provides a masterly summary of that abstruse body of Buddhist doctrine called the Abhidhamma. Such is his skill in capturing the essentials of that system, and in arranging them in a format suitable for easy comprehension, that his work has become the standard primer for Abhidhamma studies throughout the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia. In these countries, particularly in Burma where the study of Abhidhamma is pursued most assiduously, the Abhidhammattha Sangaha is regarded as the indispensable key to unlock this great treasure-store of Buddhist wisdom." U Rewata Dhamma and Bhikkhu Bodhi
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