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• Books (5)
• Canonical Works (5)
• Documents (16)
• Audio/Video (4)

Books (5)

The Dawn of Abhidharma (2014) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism: The Doctrinal History of Nirvana (2006) – Soonil Hwang

The Simile of the Cloth and The Discourse on Effacement: Two Discourses of the Buddha (1963) – Ven. Nyanaponika Thera

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) – Daniel Kahneman

Early Buddhism: A New Approach (2000) – Sue Hamilton

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Canonical Works (5)

Kathā-Vatthu (Points of Controversy) from the Abhidhamma-Pitaka (1915)

The Great Discourse on Causation: The Mahānidāna Sutta and its Commentaries (1984) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

Paṭisambhidāmagga Ānāpānasati-Kathā: The Explanation of Mindfulness of Breathing in The Path of Discrimination (1982)

MN 148: The Chachakka Sutta (Six by Six) (2018)

SN 35.82: The World (1997)

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Documents (16)

Featured:

• The Mystique of the Abhidhamma (2010) – Bhante Sujato

  I’m gripped by a somewhat peculiar trepidation as I tiptoe into the hallowed portals of the abhidhamma, my feet echoing too loudly in the cavernous austerity.

  25 pages

  pdf pdf
• The Sun that Causes the Lotus of Intelligence to Bloom: In Praise of the Lineage of Gurus for the Noble Abhidharma (2020) – Rongtön Sheja Kunrig

  Although you do not move…

  3 pages

  Online pdf

See also:

Cosmology and Meditation: From the Aggañña-Sutta to the Mahāyāna (1997) – Rupert Gethin

Can Killing a Living Being Ever Be an Act of Compassion?: The Act of Killing in the Abhidhamma and Pali Commentaries (2004) – Rupert Gethin

Debates on Time in the Kathāvatthu (1996) – David Bastow

The Mātikās: Memorization, Mindfulness and the List (1992) – Rupert Gethin

Rebirth and the In-between State in Early Buddhism (2008) – Bhante Sujato

Selections from Buddhist Thought (2000) – Paul Williams

The Nature of the Eight-factored Ariya, Lokuttara Magga in the Suttas (2014) – Peter Harvey

Abhidharma (2010) – Noa Ronkin

What Kamma Is? (1983) – Ven. U. Thittila

Nibbāna and Abhidhamma (1983) – L. S. Cousins

Nibbāna and Saññvedayitanirodha: An Endless Controversy (1993) – Mathieu Boisvert

When Does Human Life Begin? (2007) – Ajahn Brahm

The Miracle of Sankassa: Fact or Fiction? (2008) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika

Two Small Remnants of ‘Pre-Hīnayānist’ Buddhism in the Pāli Nikāyas (2000) – Eric Fallick

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Audio/Video (4)

The Buddha’s Teaching As It Is (1981) – Bhikkhu Bodhi

Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant’s Footprint (2017) – Bhante Yuttadhammo

Reality (2009) – Bhante Yuttadhammo

Do we need to learn the Abhidhamma? (2020) – Ajahn Brahmali

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