Abhidhamma Resources

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Theravada Emptiness: The Abhidhammic theory of Ajaan Sujin Boriharnwanaket– Matthew Kosuta (2007)
Ajaan Sujin, a prominent Thai lay teacher of Theravada Buddhism, interprets abhidhammic theory in a manner that, in my view, approaches the teachings of Emptiness as presented in the Prajñā-paramitā-sūtras and in the Madhyamaka-kārikā. This paper presents an overview of Ajaan Sujin’s teachings and compares them with Emptiness as expressed in the Diamond Sūtra, the Heart Sūtra, and the Madhyamaka-kārikā, as well as from a few well-known secondary sources. Core distinctions between the two theories do remain, primarily that for Ajaan Sujin dhammas do have characteristics and nibbāna is distinct from samsāra; thus I have termed Ajaan Sujin’s teachings ‘Theravada Emptiness’. While it may seem that these distinctions are too great to overcome in bridging the gap between abhidhammic theory and Emptiness, a direct comparison between the wording of certain sections and the overall correspondence of vocabulary, practice, and other conceptions, serves to narrow the divide created by these distinctions.
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Hi all

is there somewhere online i can read the Abhidhamma in english - the same way i read the suttas on access on insight website ? i mean is there the original text - because the links you give if i understand are books about it but not the text itself - right ?
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purple planet wrote:Hi all

is there somewhere online i can read the Abhidhamma in english - the same way i read the suttas on access on insight website ? i mean is there the original text - because the links you give if i understand are books about it but not the text itself - right ?
Not that I am aware of.
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maybe in the last link - and i couldnt find it - it makes sense if its the entire pitaka ?
Pali Text Society, almost the entire Pitaka translated in English
why is it its hard to find the abhidhamma in english ?
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try:
Narada:
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/abhidhamma.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);

Bodhi:

file:///C:/Users/Sarath/Downloads/Comprehensive%20Manual%20of%20Abhidhamma%20(3).pdf
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mud wrote:A full course on Abhidhammattha Sangaha by Sayadaw U Silananda


http://abhidhammattha.blogspot.com
This course is also on archive.org, two large zip-files contain all audio files. The book used is Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, ed. Bhikkhu Bodhi.
http://archive.org/details/Comprehensiv ... USilananda
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ME6206 - Special topics in Buddhist studies I: Theravada Abhidhamma

1st Semester, Academic Year 2009/2010 (July 06 – November 07, 2009)

Prof. Dr. Y. Karunadasa

The prime focus of the course will be on the dhamma-theory, the cornerstone of the Abhidhamma philosophy. The course will introduce students to the teachings of the Abhidhamma on levels of reality and degrees of truth, analysis of mind and matter, theory of ognition, instantaneous being, and conditional relations. The course will be concluded with-an introduction to the expository methodology of the Abhidhamma.
24 downloadable video files of not very good quality, occasional parts with no audio and the site seemed to be down sometimes. Prof always repeats the key definitions and concepts. Maybe I'll make mp3's for listening.
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Bhikkhu Bodhi's A Comprehensive Manual of the Abhidhamma: The Abhidhammatthasangaha of Acariya Anuruddha, Buddhist Publication Society

Free PDF: http://store.pariyatti.org/Comprehensiv ... _4362.html


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Fifteen talks given by Bhikkhu Bodhi during his 2013 Abhidhamma Retreat have been uploaded to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bauscym/videos

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Rūpehi bhikkhave arūpā santatarā.
Arūpehi nirodho santataro ti.


“Bhikkhus, the formless is more peaceful than the form realms.
Cessation is more peaceful than the formless realms.”
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this is the audio of the books posted by Dhammanando's above, presented by Sayadaw Silananda.
http://vipassanasangha.free.fr/=eng/dha ... ananda.htm

the above link also has a cleaner recording of the Vissdhimagga presented by Sayadaw Silananda, the original? can be found here:
http://thepathofpurification.blogspot.c ... magga.html


Abhidhamma talks based from the Abhidhammattha Sangaha presented by Sayalay Susila:
http://www.sayalaysusila.org/content/di ... ma_english
http://dhammatalks.net/Sayalay_Susila/Abhidhamma/
http://www.cakkavala.org/sayalaysusila.htm

Sayalay Susilas book "Unravelling the Mysteries of Mind and Body through Abhidhamma":
http://sayalaysusila.net/pages/ebooks
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Patthana in daily life by U Hla Myint:
http://www.tathagata.org/sites/default/ ... 20Life.pdf

Patthana Pali chanting by Sayadaw Dr. Nandamālābhivaṃsa:
http://patthana.blogspot.ca/2008/05/pat ... nting.html

the Pali text with english translation for the above chanting:
http://www.abhidhamma.com/Patthana_Paccayaniddesa.pdf

patthana quiz:
http://host.pariyatti.org/plc/patthana-matrix/
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Thanks Randall!
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Thanks for these great resources!

One of the links in the original post is now dead ("Abhidhamma Papers - Published by the Samatha Trust")

It looks like the correct URL is now different:

http://www.samatha.org/texts/publications/texts/texts

On that page you can find (the first link) the following PDF, which I think is what the link in the original post was supposed to lead to:

http://www.samatha.org/images/stories/a ... -final.pdf
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