Sanskrit Noun
abhidharma
abhidharma
अभिधर्म
ཆོས་མངོན་པ།
阿毗达磨
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.
| Term Variations | |
|---|---|
| Key Term | abhidharma |
| Topic Variation | abhidharma |
| Tibetan | ཆོས་མངོན་པ། ( Chö ngonpa) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | chos mngon pa ( Chö ngonpa) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | अभिधर्म ( abhidharma) |
| Romanized Sanskrit | abhidharma ( abhidharma) |
| Chinese | 阿毗达磨 |
| Chinese Pinyin | āpídámó |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | abhidharma |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | manifest knowledge |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | abhidharma |
| Term Information | |
| 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. |
| Related Terms | sūtra, vinaya |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Definitions | |
| 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། |
