This book provides an effective guide to especially Buddhist practitioners for gauging their daily progress as to path cultivation. It begins with a schedule, enumerating conventional Abhidhamma groups of the 5 aggregates, 12 bases, 18 elements, Truth, 22 faculties, follows by the exposition of individual-types by units, twofold, threefold, up to descriptions under tenfold. Nearly all of its designations are identical parallels drawn from the ten Nipatas of the Anguttara Nikaya with only some minor variations and omissions. Other designations are also found, sometimes as fragmentary descriptions, sometimes with different meanings, in the various suttas of the Nikayas. For the benefit of the readers, I have referenced these relevant suttas in the schedule, and I have also given necessary exposition to these referenced suttas in the subsequent Chapters. This book analyses 390 types of individual, or more specifically, types of monks and nuns, although some of the designations do overlap. These are unequivocal norms of measurements drawn up as a yardstick for providing advice to the declining monastics as well as a good manual for advancing progress of the assiduous monastics.
An Analysis of Individual-Types from the Abhidhamma: The fourth book of Abhidhamma Pitaka, P.BTan, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Paperback, 2016, $24.95
P.B. Tan is from Kuching, the 'Land of the Hornbills'. The author is a Buddhist scholar and longtime Buddhist practitioner who also holds a Master Degree in Buddhist Studies. He currently undertakes a doctoral research in the Theravada Abhidhamma. He has two other books under his publication: An Anatomy of Mind. Being Essence of the Dhammasangani in Abhidhamma (2015), and An Analysis of Mind from the Vibhanga in Abhidhamma (2016).
| Abbreviations |
v |
| Introduction |
1 |
| Puggalapannattimatika |
4 |
| Unit-Matika |
6 |
| Dyads-Matika |
11 |
| Triads-Matika |
13 |
| Tetrads-Matika |
15 |
| Pentads-Matika |
21 |
| Sextet-Matika |
23 |
| Septets-Matika |
24 |
| Octet-Matika |
24 |
| Nomad-Matika |
25 |
| Decadal-Matika |
26 |
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| I. Exposition by Units |
27 |
| II. Exposition by Dyads |
54 |
| III. Exposition by Triads |
78 |
| IV. Exposition by Tetrads |
95 |
| V. Exposition by Pentads |
129 |
| VI. Exposition Sextet |
141 |
| VII. Exposition by Septets |
143 |
| VIII. Exposition Octet |
146 |
| IX. Exposition by Nonad |
147 |
| X. Exposition by Decade |
149 |
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| Conclusion |
154 |
| Bibliography |
155 |
| About The Author |
157 |
| Index of English Words |
158 |
| Index of pali Wors |
160 |
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