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📕 The Manual of the Factors Leading to Enlightenment (A free, 53-page book translation from 1960)

Tags: #Abhidhamma #BurmeseBuddhism #Meditation
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/bodipakkhiyadipani_sayadaw-ledi

Bodipakkhiya-dipani: The Manual of the Factors Leading to Enlightenment

A detailed, Abhidhamma/Pāli-inflected map of the Buddhist path in a style that became surprisingly popular in modern Burma.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityDec 18, 2024

📕 Cetasikas (A free, 296-page book from 1999)

Tags: #Abhidhamma #Feeling
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/cetasikas_van-gorkom-nina

Cetasikas

Cetasika means literally: ‘belonging to the mind.’ There are fifty two different cetasikas which each have their own characteristic and function.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityAug 25, 2024

📖 Two Essays (A free, 44-page book from 1980)

Tags: #Abhidhamma
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/intro-to-abhidhamma

An Introduction to the Abhidhamma: Two Essays

Two essays on the meaning of the Abhidhamma: Abhidhamma Notes by Jill Jordan and Richard Giles Abhidhamma and Practice by Nina van Gorkom

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The Open Buddhist UniversityAug 25, 2024

☸️ The Analysis of Conditional Origination (A free, 425-page canonical work translation from 2014)

Tags: #Abhidhamma #Origination
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/vb6

Vb 6 Paṭiccasamuppāda Vibhaṅga: The Analysis of Conditional Origination

The Theravāda Abhidhamma’s Canonical analysis of Dependant Arising.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityAug 24, 2024

📖 An Analysis of the Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha (A free, 177-page book from 1967)

Tags: #Abhidhamma
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/abhidhammatthasangaha-analysis

An Analysis of the Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha

A collection of talks on the Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha by an unknown Burmese monk.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityAug 23, 2024

☸️ Analysis of the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness (A free, 137-page canonical work translation from 2013)

Tags: #Abhidhamma #Mindfulness
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/vb7

Vb 7 Satipaṭṭhānavibhaṅgo: Analysis of the Ways of Attending to Mindfulness

The Theravāda Abhidhamma’s Canonical analysis of Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityAug 22, 2024

📖 Rebirth Explained (A free, 61-page book from 1971)

Tags: #Abhidhamma #Rebirth #TBT
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/rebirth-explained_gunaratna

Rebirth Explained

… all are his fellow-passengers in the great journey of life, subject to the same universal laws and fundamental principles to which he himself is subject.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityAug 21, 2024

📖 Selections From the Thai Tradition (A free, 22-page book translation from 2016)

Tags: #ThaiChanting #Abhidhamma
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/thai-chanting_anandajoti

Thai Chanting: Selections From the Thai Tradition

Pāli and English interlinear translations of selected Abhidhamma verses often chanted in Thailand.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityAug 21, 2024

📖 The Workings of Kamma (A free, 375-page book from 2009)

Tags: #PaAuk #Karma #Abhidhamma
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/workings-of-kamma_sayaday-pa-auk-tawya

The Workings of Kamma

Compiled in-depth dhamma talks on kamma from the Abhidhamma perspective given by Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityAug 20, 2024

📰 Sati (Mindfulness) and the Structure of the Mind in Early Buddhism (A free, 12-page article from 1987)

Tags: #Mindfulness #Abhidhamma
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/mindfulness-and-the-structure-of-mind-in-early-buddhism_seelawimala-madawala-mckinley-arnold

Sati (Mindfulness) and the Structure of the Mind in Early Buddhism

So if Americans are to understand Buddhist forms of meditation and if Buddhism is to be transferred successfully to America, Americans must understand sati development correctly. Unfortunately, such understanding is difficult to attain because of the great differences in language, philosophy and “worldview”

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