Abhidhammatthasangaha

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The Abhidhammattha-Saṅgaha is a summary of all seven books of the Abhidhamma - Pali Canon and the accompanying commentaries. An understanding is often not possible without explanation or guidance from a teacher.

According to Burmese tradition, the author of this work is a Sinhala monk named Anuruddha , who is said to have written it in a monastery near the old royal city of Polonnaruwa in Ceylon , and who is believed to be no later than the 12th century and no earlier than lived in the 8th century.

The title of the work, Abhidhammattha-Saṅgaha , literally means "summary of realities". Abhidhammattha, more precisely abhidhammattha-dhamma , represents the ultimately "real things" that can be understood in meditation, such as all physical and mental phenomena. In contrast to this are the so-called "conventional things", such as I, Person, man, woman, dog, house, etc., which are used in everyday life for rough orientation, but which, in the opinion of the work, only represent unreal concepts and thus no real phenomena.

The Abhidhammattha-Saṅgaha is divided into the following parts:

  • Compendium of Consciousness
  • Compendium of mental factors
  • Compendium of special categories: types of consciousness and feelings, objects, sensory bases
  • Compendium of Mental Processes: How Our Minds Work
  • Compendium of process-independent things: death, rebirth, continuum of life, karma, planes of existence
  • Compendium of corporeality: matter or physical phenomena and nibbāna
  • Compendium of categories: various categories and groupings
  • Compendium of conditions: dependent arising ( paticcasamuppāda ) and interrelationships of conditions ( patthāna ); Concepts and types of people ( Puggalapaññatti )
  • Compendium of the practice areas: Explanation of meditation types, objects and individual suitability

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Abhidhammattha-Sangaha , introduction by Nyanatiloka
  2. ↑ paramattha-sacca : palikanon.de (see also Nyanatiloka dictionary)

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