A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma
, by Bodhi, BhikkhuNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781928706021 | 1928706029
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/2003
This modern translation of the Abhidhammattha Sangaha (Manual of Abhidhamma) offers an introduction to Buddhism's fundamental philosophical psychology. Originally written in the 11th or 12th century, the Sangaha has served as the key to wisdom held in the Abhidhamma. Concisely surveyed are Abhidhamma's central themes, including states of consciousness and mental factors, the functions and processes of the mind, the material world, dependent arising, and the methods and stages of meditation. This presents an exact translation of the Sangaha alongside the original Pali text. A detailed, explanatory guide with more than 40 charts and tables lead readers through the complexities of Adhidhamma.
Bhikkhu Bodhi is the general editor and president of the Buddhist Publication Society in Sri Lanka. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School and was ordained as a monk in Sri Lanka. He is the author, translator, and editor of several books, including Connected Discourses of the Buddha, Discourse on the All-Embracing Net Views, and Numerical Discourses of the Buddha.
Compendium of Consciousness | |
Words of Praise | p. 23 |
The Fourfold Ultimate Reality | p. 25 |
Four Classes of Consciousness | p. 27 |
Sense-Sphere Consciousness | |
Unwholesome Consciousness | |
Consciousness Rooted in Greed | p. 32 |
Consciousness Rooted in Hatred | p. 36 |
Consciousness Rooted in Delusion | p. 37 |
Summary of Unwholesome Consciousness | p. 39 |
Rootless Consciousness | |
Unwholesome-Resultant Consciousness | p. 40 |
Wholesome-Resultant Rootless Consciousness | p. 41 |
Rootless Functional Consciousness | p. 44 |
Summary of Rootless Consciousness | p. 45 |
Beautiful Consciousness | p. 45 |
Sense-Sphere Beautiful Consciousness | |
Sense-Sphere Wholesome Consciousness | p. 46 |
Sense-Sphere Resultant Consciousness | p. 48 |
Sense-Sphere Functional Consciousness | p. 49 |
Summary of Sense-Sphere Beautiful Consciousness | p. 51 |
Summary of Sense-Sphere Consciousness | p. 51 |
Fine-material-Sphere Consciousness | |
Fine-material-Sphere Wholesome Consciousness | p. 52 |
Fine-material-Sphere Resultant Consciousness | p. 53 |
Fine-material-Sphere Functional Consciousness | p. 53 |
Summary of Fine-material-Sphere Consciousness | p. 59 |
Immaterial-Sphere Consciousness | |
Immaterial-Sphere Wholesome Consciousness | p. 60 |
Immaterial-Sphere Resultant Consciousness | p. 61 |
Imaterial-Sphere Functional Consciousness | p. 61 |
Summary of Immaterial-Sphere Consciousness | p. 63 |
Supramundane Consciousness | |
Supramundane Wholesome Consciousness | p. 65 |
Supramundane Resultant Consciousness | p. 65 |
Summary of Supramundane Consciousness | p. 65 |
Comprehensive Summary of Consciousness | p. 68 |
121 Types of Consciousness | |
In Brief | p. 71 |
In Detail | p. 71 |
Concluding Summary | p. 73 |
Compendium of Mental Factors | |
Introductory Verse | p. 76 |
The Fifty-two Mental Factors | |
The Ethically Variable Factors | |
The Universals | p. 77 |
The Occasionals | p. 81 |
The Unwholesome Factors | p. 83 |
The Beautiful Factors | |
The Universal Beautiful Factors | p. 85 |
The Abstinences | p. 88 |
The Illimitables | p. 89 |
Non-Delusion | p. 90 |
Summary of Mental Factors | p. 91 |
Association of Mental Factors | |
Introductory Verse | p. 91 |
The Ethically Variable Factors | p. 91 |
The Unwholesome Factors | p. 95 |
The Beautiful Factors | p. 96 |
Fixed and Unfixed Adjuncts | p. 99 |
Combinations of Mental Factors | |
Introductory Verse | p. 100 |
Supramundane Consciousness | p. 100 |
Sublime Consciousness | p. 102 |
Sense-Sphere Beautiful Consciousness | p. 104 |
Distinctions among the Beautiful Types | p. 105 |
Unwholesome Consciousness | p. 106 |
Rootless Consciousness | p. 108 |
Conclusion | p. 110 |
Compendium of the Miscellaneous | |
Introductory Verse | p. 114 |
Compendium of Feeling | |
Analysis of Feeling | p. 115 |
Classification by way of Consciousness | p. 116 |
Summary | p. 117 |
Compendium of Roots | |
Analysis of Roots | p. 119 |
Classification by way of Consciousness | p. 120 |
Summary | p. 121 |
Compendium of Functions | |
Analysis of Functions | p. 122 |
Classification by way of Consciousness | p. 124 |
Classification by number of Functions | p. 128 |
Summary | p. 129 |
Compendium of Doors | |
Analysis of Doors | p. 129 |
Classification by way of Consciousness | p. 130 |
Classification by number of Doors | p. 132 |
Summary | p. 134 |
Compendium of Objects | |
Analysis of Objects | p. 135 |
Classification by way of Doors | p. 136 |
Classification by type of Consciousness | p. 139 |
Summary | p. 143 |
Compendium of Bases | |
Analysis of Bases | p. 144 |
Classification by way of Consciousness | p. 145 |
Summary | p. 148 |
Compendium of the Cognitive Process | |
Introductory Verse | p. 149 |
Enumeration of Categories | |
The Six Sixes | p. 150 |
Six Types of Consciousness | p. 150 |
Six Processes | p. 150 |
Sixfold Presentation of Objects | p. 152 |
The Five-Door Process | |
The Very Great Object | p. 153 |
The Great Object | p. 159 |
The Slight Object | p. 159 |
The Very Slight Object | p. 160 |
Fourfold Presentation of Objects | p. 160 |
Summary | p. 162 |
The Mind-Door Process | |
The Limited Javana Process | p. 163 |
Summary | p. 166 |
The Process of Absorption Javanas in the Mind Door | |
The Process of Absorption | p. 167 |
Correlations in Absorption | p. 169 |
Summary | p. 170 |
The Procedure of Registration | |
Analysis of Registration | p. 171 |
The Adventitious Bhavanga | p. 174 |
The Law of Registration | p. 175 |
Summary | p. 175 |
The Procedure of Javana | |
Sense-Sphere Javana | p. 175 |
Javana in Attainments | p. 176 |
Summary | p. 178 |
Analysis by way of Individuals | |
Rootless and Double Rooted | p. 179 |
Triple Rooted | p. 179 |
Summary | p. 180 |
Analysis by way of Planes | |
Analysis | p. 181 |
Special Cases | p. 183 |
Summary | p. 183 |
Conclusion | p. 184 |
Compendium of the Process-Freed | |
Introductory Verse | p. 185 |
Enumeration of Categories | p. 185 |
The Four Planes of Existence | |
Overview | p. 189 |
The Woeful Plane | p. 189 |
The Sensuous Blissful Plane | p. 190 |
The Fine-material-Sphere Plane | p. 192 |
The Immaterial-Sphere Plane | p. 193 |
By way of Individuals | p. 193 |
The Four Types of Rebirth-Linking | |
Overview | p. 194 |
Rebirth-Linking in the Woeful Plane | p. 194 |
Rebirth-Linking in the Sensuous Blissful Plane | p. 194 |
Sensuous Plane Life-Spans | p. 196 |
Rebirth-Linking in the Fine-material Sphere | p. 197 |
Life-Spans in the Fine-material Sphere | p. 198 |
Rebirth-Linking in the Immaterial Sphere | p. 199 |
Life-Spans in the Immaterial Sphere | p. 199 |
Summary | p. 199 |
Four Types of Kamma | |
By way of Function | p. 200 |
By Order of Ripening | p. 203 |
By Time of Ripening | p. 205 |
By Place of Ripening | p. 206 |
Unwholesome and Wholesome Kamma | |
Unwholesome Kamma | p. 206 |
By way of Roots and Consciousness | p. 208 |
Wholesome Kamma of the Sense Sphere | p. 209 |
Wholesome Kamma of the Fine-material Sphere | p. 210 |
Wholesome Kamma of the Immaterial Sphere | p. 210 |
Results of Kamma | |
Results of Unwholesome Kamma | p. 210 |
Results of Sense-Sphere Wholesome Kamma | p. 211 |
Wholesome Results and the Roots | p. 214 |
An Alternative View | p. 215 |
Results of Fine-material-Sphere Wholesome Kamma | p. 216 |
Results of Immaterial-Sphere Wholesome Kamma | p. 219 |
Conclusion | p. 219 |
The Process of Death and Rebirth | |
Four Causes of Death | p. 219 |
The Signs at the Time of Death | p. 220 |
The Mind at the Time of Death | p. 221 |
Death and Rebirth-Linking | p. 222 |
Objects of Sense-Sphere Rebirth Consciousness | p. 223 |
Objects of Sublime Rebirth Consciousness | p. 224 |
Determination of Rebirth | p. 226 |
The Continuity of Consciousness | p. 228 |
Conclusion | p. 229 |
Compendium of Matter | |
Introductory Verse | p. 234 |
Enumeration of Material Phenomena | |
In Brief: Great Essentials and Derived Matter | p. 235 |
In Detail: Concretely Produced Matter | p. 237 |
In Detail: Non-Concretely Produced Matter | p. 240 |
Twenty-eight Kinds of Matter | p. 242 |
Classification of Matter | |
As Singlefold | p. 243 |
As Manifold | p. 243 |
Summary | p. 246 |
The Origination of Matter | |
The Four Modes of Origin | p. 246 |
Kamma as a Mode of Origin | p. 247 |
Consciousness as a Mode of Origin | p. 247 |
Temperature as a Mode of Origin | p. 250 |
Nutriment as a Mode of Origin | p. 250 |
Analysis by way of Origins | p. 251 |
Summary | p. 251 |
The Grouping of Material Phenomena | |
In Brief | p. 252 |
Groups Originating from Kamma | p. 253 |
Groups Originating from Consciousness | p. 253 |
Groups Originating from Temperature | p. 253 |
Groups Originating from Nutriment | p. 254 |
The Internal and External | p. 254 |
Summary | p. 254 |
The Occurrence of Material Phenomena | |
In the Sensuous World | p. 255 |
The Continuity of Occurrence | p. 256 |
At the Time of Death | p. 256 |
Verse | p. 257 |
In the Fine-material World | p. 257 |
Among Non-Percipient Beings | p. 257 |
Summary | p. 258 |
Nibbana | |
Definition | p. 258 |
Analysis | p. 259 |
Summary | p. 260 |
Compendium of Categories | |
Introductory Verse | p. 264 |
Enumeration of Categories | p. 265 |
Compendium of the Unwholesome | |
Taints | p. 265 |
Floods | p. 265 |
Bonds | p. 266 |
Bodily Knots | p. 266 |
Clingings | p. 266 |
Hindrances | p. 267 |
Latent Dispositions | p. 268 |
Fetters (Suttanta Method) | p. 268 |
Fetters (Abhidhamma Method) | p. 269 |
Defilements | p. 269 |
A Clarification | p. 269 |
Summary | p. 271 |
Compendium of Mixed Categories | |
Roots | p. 271 |
Jhana Factors | p. 272 |
Path Factors | p. 272 |
Faculties | p. 273 |
Powers | p. 274 |
Predominants | p. 274 |
Nutriments | p. 275 |
Clarifications | p. 275 |
Summary | p. 278 |
Compendium of Requisites of Enlightenment | |
Four Foundations of Mindfulness | p. 278 |
Four Supreme Efforts | p. 279 |
Four Means to Accomplishment | p. 280 |
Five Faculties | p. 280 |
Five Powers | p. 280 |
Seven Factors of Enlightenment | p. 281 |
Eight Path Factors | p. 282 |
A Clarification | p. 282 |
By way of States | p. 282 |
By way of Occurrence | p. 283 |
Compendium of the Whole | |
The Five Aggregates | p. 285 |
The Five Aggregates of Clinging | p. 286 |
The Twelve Sense Bases | p. 286 |
The Eighteen Elements | p. 287 |
The Four Noble Truths | p. 289 |
A Clarification | p. 290 |
Summary | p. 290 |
Compendium of Conditionality | |
Introductory Verse | p. 292 |
In Brief: The Two Methods | p. 293 |
The Method of Dependent Arising | |
The Basic Formula | p. 294 |
Categories of Analysis | p. 299 |
The Three Periods | p. 299 |
The Twelve Factors | p. 299 |
The Four Groups | p. 299 |
The Three Rounds | p. 300 |
The Two Roots | p. 302 |
Summary | p. 302 |
The Method of Conditional Relations | |
The Twenty-four Conditions | p. 303 |
Application in Brief | p. 305 |
Mind for Mind | p. 305 |
Mind for Mind-and-Matter | p. 307 |
Mind for Matter | p. 313 |
Matter for Mind | p. 314 |
Concepts and Mind-and-Matter for Mind | p. 316 |
Mind-and-Matter for Mind-and-Matter | p. 316 |
The Predominance Condition | p. 316 |
The Conascence Condition | p. 317 |
The Mutuality Condition | p. 317 |
The Support Condition | p. 318 |
The Nutriment Condition | p. 319 |
The Faculty Condition | p. 320 |
The Dissociation Condition | p. 321 |
Presence and Non-Disappearance | p. 321 |
The Synthesis of Conditions | p. 322 |
Summary | p. 324 |
Analysis of Concepts | |
In Brief | p. 325 |
Concept as What is Made Known | p. 326 |
Concept as What Makes Known | p. 327 |
Summary | p. 328 |
Compendium of Meditation Subjects | |
Introductory Verse | p. 329 |
Compendium of Calm | |
Basic Categories | |
Meditation Subjects | p. 330 |
Temperaments | p. 330 |
Development | p. 331 |
Signs | p. 331 |
The Forty Meditation Subjects | |
The Kasinas | p. 332 |
Foulness | p. 333 |
The Recollections | p. 333 |
The Illimitables | p. 336 |
One Perception | p. 337 |
One Analysis | p. 337 |
The Immaterial States | p. 337 |
Analysis of Suitability | p. 338 |
Analysis of Development | |
By way of the Three Stages | p. 338 |
By way of Jhana | p. 339 |
Analysis of the Terrain | |
The Signs | p. 340 |
Appearance of the Signs in Meditation | p. 340 |
Attainment of Jhana | p. 341 |
The Immaterial Attainments | p. 342 |
Other Meditation Subjects | p. 343 |
Direct Knowledge | p. 343 |
Compendium of Insight | |
Basic Categories | |
Stages of Purification | p. 344 |
The Three Characteristics | p. 346 |
The Three Contemplations | p. 346 |
The Ten Insight Knowledges | p. 346 |
The Three Emancipations | p. 347 |
The Three Doors to Emancipation | p. 347 |
Analysis of Purification | |
Purification of Virtue | p. 347 |
Purification of Mind | p. 348 |
Purification of View | p. 349 |
Purification by Overcoming Doubt | p. 349 |
Purification of Path and Not-Path | p. 350 |
Purification of the Way | p. 352 |
Purification by Knowledge and Vision | p. 354 |
Analysis of Emancipation | |
The Three Doors to Emancipation | p. 356 |
Emancipation in the Path and Fruit | p. 357 |
Emancipation in Fruition Attainment | p. 358 |
Analysis of Individuals | |
The Stream-Enterer | p. 358 |
The Once-Returner | p. 359 |
The Non-Returner | p. 361 |
The Arahant | p. 362 |
Analysis of Attainments | |
Accessibility | p. 363 |
The Attainment of Cessation | p. 363 |
Emergence from Cessation | p. 364 |
Conclusion | p. 365 |
Colophon | p. 365 |
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