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unusual facts about Abhidhamma



Buddhist holidays

Abhidhamma Day: According to Burmese tradition, this day celebrates when the Buddha went to the Tushita Heaven to teach his mother the Abhidhamma.

Buddhist Publication Society

The BPS also publishes several books on the Abhidhamma, a systematic arrangement of the Buddha’s philosophical and psychological teachings, defining the theory that lies behind his more pragmatically oriented discourses: A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, a translation of the Abhidhammattha-sangaha complete with a detailed explanatory guide by the Burmese Sayadaw U Rewatadhamma and Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Moggaliputta-Tissa

He compiled the Kathavatthu, in refutation of those views, and it was in this council that this text was approved and added to the Abhidhamma.


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