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Summary Of: Abhidharma
Scholars generally believe that the Abhidharma emerged after the time of the Buddha... Numerous apparently independent and unrelated Abhidharma traditions arose in... reportedly collected Abhidharma texts from seven different traditions... Abhidharma is mostly preserved only in Chinese... A small number of other Abhidharma texts of unknown origin are preserved in translation in the Chinese canon... The Sarvastivada Abhidharma also consists of seven texts... the Theravada Abhidharma contains two texts... several schools rejected the authority of abhidharma and claimed that abhidharma treatises were composed by fallible... Encyclodia Page On: Abhidharma
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