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ཆོས་མངོན་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཆོས་མངོན་པ།
- chos mngon pa
- abhidharma
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- abhidharma
- ཆོས་མངོན་པ།
- chos mngon pa
- abhidharma
The Buddha’s teachings regarding subjects such as wisdom, psychology, metaphysics, and cosmology.
- Abhidharma
- ཆོས་མངོན་པ།
- chos mngon pa
- abhidharma
Conventionally, the general name for the Buddhist teachings presented in a scientific manner, as a fully elaborated transcendental psychology. As one of the branches of the Canon, it corresponds to the discipline of wisdom (the Sūtras corresponding to meditation, and the Vinaya to morality). Ultimately the Abhidharma is “pure wisdom, with its coordinate mental functions” (Prajñāmalā sānucārā), according to Vasubandhu.
- Abhidharma
- ཆོས་མངོན་པ།
- chos mngon pa
- abhidharma
The Buddha’s teachings regarding subjects such as wisdom, psychology, metaphysics, and cosmology.
- Abhidharma
- ཆོས་མངོན་པ།
- chos mngon pa
- abhidharma
The Buddha’s teachings regarding subjects such as wisdom, psychology, metaphysics, and cosmology.