A Survey of Paramattha Dhammas
  • Introduction
  • Book info
  • Preface
  • Part I General Introduction
    • The Scriptures and Their Commentaries
    • The Buddha
    • Exposition of Paramattha Dhammas I (Citta and Cetasikas)
    • Exposition of Paramattha Dhammas II (Rūpa)
    • Exposition of Paramattha Dhammas III (Nibbāna)
    • Different Aspects of the Four Paramattha Dhammas
  • Part II Citta
    • General Introduction
    • Citta Knows an Object
    • A Process of Citta
    • Functions of Citta
    • The Duration of Different Processes
    • The Nature of Javana-Citta
    • The Ephemeral Experience of Objects
    • The Cycle of Birth and Death
    • The Nature of Vipāka
    • Citta and Cetasika
    • Cittas of the Sense-Sphere
    • Planes of Existence
    • Feelings
    • Associated Dhammas
    • Roots
    • Sobhana and Asobhana
    • The World
    • The Variegated Nature of Citta
  • Part III Concepts
    • Concepts (I)
    • Concepts (II)
    • Concepts (III)
  • Part IV The Development of Samatha
    • Development of Samatha
  • Part V The Development of Insight
    • The Factors Leading to Enlightenment
    • The Stages of Vipassanā
    • Different Kinds of Purity
    • The Three Kinds of Full Understanding
    • The Three Attainments
  • Part VI Dialogue on Vipassana
    • The Natural Way of Development
    • The Characteristic of Dukkha
    • The Meaning of Anattā
  • Appendices
    • Appendix I: Citta
    • Appendix II: Cetasika
    • Appendix III: Rūpa
    • Questions With Regard to the Appendices
    • Footnotes
  • Pali Glossary
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Introduction

Status: in print (published 2006)

  • Author: Sujin Boriharnwanaket

  • Keywords: abhidhamma; buddhism; theravada; theravada buddhism; tipitaka;

  • Publisher: Zolag

  • Year: 2006

  • Language: English

  • Book translator: Nina van Gorkom

  • Collection: opensource

Description

A Survey of Paramattha Dhammas is a guide to the development of the Buddha's path of wisdom, covering all aspects of human life and human behaviour, good and bad. This study explains that right understanding is indispensable for mental development, the development of calm as well as the development of insight. The author describes in detail all mental phenomena (citta and cetasika), and physical phenomena (rupa) and explains the processes of mental phenomena that experience objects through the sense-doors and the mind-door. The last chapters are in the form of questions and answers and deal with the problems one may face in the development of insight. For precision many Pali terms are used but nevertheless the book could be appreciated by both beginners and as well as those who have more background knowledge.

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