Dhamma Sangani
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The Dhamma Sangani (or Dhammasangini) is the first book of the Theravada Buddhist Pali Canon's Abhidhamma (Pāli; Skt., Abhidharma). "Dhamma Sangani" has been translated into English as "Enumeration of Phenomena."[1]
The Dhamma Sangani enumerates all the dhammas (phenomena) i.e., all categories of nama, namely, consciousness and mental concomitants; and rupa (corporeality). Having enumerated the phenomena, they are arranged into various categories to bring out their exact nature, function and mutual relationship both internally (in our own being) and with the outside world.
The Dhamma Sangani and the Patthana ("The Book of Relations," the last book of the Abhidhamma) are the most important of the seven treatises of Abhidhamma, providing as they do the quintessence of the entire Abhidhamma.[2]
The only available English translation of this text was completed by Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids in 1900.[3]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Bullitt (2005).
- ^ Bullitt (2005) who states in reference to the Patthana: "This book ... describes the 24 paccayas, or laws of conditionality, through which the dhammas interact. These laws, when applied in every possible permutation with the dhammas described in the Dhammasangani, give rise to all knowable experience."
- ^ Bullitt (2005).
[edit] Bibliography
- Bullitt, John T. (2005). Abhidhamma Pitaka: The Basket of Abhidhamma. Available on-line at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/abhi/index.html.
- Rhys Davids, C. A. F. (1900). A Buddhist manual of psychological ethics or Buddhist Psychology, of the Fourth Century B.C., being a translation, now made for the first time, from the Original Pāli of the First Book in the Abhidhamma-Piţaka, entitled Dhamma-Sangaṇi (Compendium of States or Phenomena) [includes 80 page introduction by Rhys Davids]. Reprint currently available from Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 0-7661-4702-9.)
