Abhidharma

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Key Term	abhidharma
Hover Popup Choices	abhidharma; མངོན་པ།
In Tibetan Script	ཆོས་མངོན་པ།
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	chos mngon pa
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	अभिधर्म
Romanized Sanskrit	abhidharma
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	Chö ngonpa
Sanskrit Phonetic Rendering	abhidharma
Chinese Script	阿毗达磨
Chinese Pinyin	āpídámó
English Standard	abhidharma
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	manifest knowledge
Ives Waldo's English Term	abhidharma
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	Abhidharma generally refers to the corpus of Buddhist texts which deals with the typological, phenomenological, metaphysical, and epistemological presentation of Buddhist concepts and teachings. The Abhidharma teachings present a meta-knowledge of Buddhist sūtras through analytical and systemic schemas and are said to focus on developing wisdom among the three principles of training. The Abhidharma is presented alongside Sūtra and Vinaya as one of the three baskets of the teachings of the Buddha.
Has the Sense of	The term has the sense of making knowledge and meaning manifest through intelligent analysis and systematic presentation.
Related Terms	sūtra;vinaya
Definitions
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term	Abhidharma, knowledge, 'actual things', metaphysics. Abhidharma. One of the three parts of the Tripitaka, the Words of the Buddha. Systematic teachings on metaphysics focusing on developing discriminating knowledge by analyzing elements of experience and investigating the nature of existing things.
Tshig mdzod Chen mo	ཟག་པ་མེད་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་རྗེས་འབྲངས་དང་བཅས་པ་དང་།་དེ་མངོན་དུ་བྱ་བའི་ཐོས་བསམ་གྱི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་སོགས་དང་།་དེ་དག་སྟོན་པའི་གཞུང་སྟེ།་ལྷག་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་བསླབ་པ་གཙོ་བོར་སྟོན་པའི་བཀའ་དང་དགོངས་འགྲེལ་རྣམས་སོ།

Abhidharma generally refers to the corpus of Buddhist texts which deals with the typological, phenomenological, metaphysical, and epistemological presentation of Buddhist concepts and teachings. The abhidharma teachings present a meta-knowledge of Buddhist sūtras through analytical and systemic schemas and are said to focus on developing wisdom among the three principles of training. The Abhidharma is presented alongside Sūtra and Vinaya as one of the three baskets of the teachings of the Buddha.

Abhidharma generally refers to the corpus of Buddhist texts which deals with the typological, phenomenological, metaphysical, and epistemological presentation of Buddhist concepts and teachings. The abhidharma teachings present a meta-knowledge of Buddhist sūtras through analytical and systemic schemas and are said to focus on developing wisdom among the three principles of training. The Abhidharma is presented alongside Sūtra and Vinaya as one of the three baskets of the teachings of the Buddha.

Vinaya refers to the corpus of Buddhist teachings on moral discipline and precepts and is one of the three canonical sets of teachings alongside Sūtra and Abhidharma. It also refers to the monastic tradition which has been passed down since the Buddha's time until our time.