Abhidharmadipa with Vibhasaprabha Vrutti

SR No.: 004384
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P S Jaini
Publisher: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute
Publication Year: 1977
Total Pages: 660
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 12 MB

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31 Satra and Abhidharma the Seven Factors of Enlightenment, the Ariyan Eightfold Path. These O Chunda, are the truths......." * The Samagana sutta also begins with the same episode of the Nigaatha Nataputta's death. Here Ananda relates this to the Buddha adding his hope that when the Lord dies, no 'similar quarrels will arise in the samgha, to the grief and sorrow of gods and men. The reply of the Buddha on this occasion is worth noting here. He repeats the dhammas preached in the last sutta and asks : "What think you Ananda ? Do you observe even a couple of Bhikkhus at variance about the truths which, when I had perceived, I made known to you......, the Four Onsets of Mindfulness.......the Ariyan Eightfold Path ?" "No Sir. But those who are about the Lord might, at his death, stir up quarrels in the samgha respecting the rigours of the regimen or of the code. Such quarrels would make for the grief and sorrow of the gods and men". "Of little concern, Ananda, are quarrels respecting rigours of regimen or of the code, it is possible quarrels in the confraternity about the Path or the course of training which really matter".Here we can discern the rise of Abhidharma, the supreme Doctrine of the Buddha. The statement that there are no two opinions on the thirty-seven items, raises the latter to a higher degree and can be called the central and universally accepted preaching of the Buddha. The differences rising out of the Vinaya are not ruled out, but they are not exaggerated. No particular sutta is mentioned as the supreme, but only the sum total of all the teachings put into an aggregate later known as the bodhipakkhiya dhamma. i katame cha te Chunda maya dhamma abhinna desita ..... seyyathidam chattaro satipattano, chattaro sammappadhana, chattaro iddhipada,panch' indriyani, pancha balani, satta bojjhangu, ariyo atthangiko maggo. ime kho te dhamma...... Ibid. For a full exposition of these thirty-seven items, see The Dialogues of the Buddha, II. pp. 128-130, notes. Vide Adv. pp. 356-362. 2 M. II. p. 245.