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Background Report: Abhidharma
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Based on source story: Abhidharma from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Stanford Encyclopedia of gives a fuller on Abhidharma. The first after Śākyamuni Buddha's death saw the rise of multiple of and teacher lineages within the Buddhist community as it spread throughout the Indian.
The early history of Buddhism in India is remarkably little known and the attempt to construct a consistent chronology of that history still engrosses the minds of contemporary. A generally accepted tradition has it that some time around the beginning of the third century BCE, the primitive Buddhist community divided into two parties or fraternities. the.
Throughout the subsequent two or so, doctrinal disputes arose between these two parties, resulting in the formation of various of and teacher lineages ( Vin. See Cousins 1991, 27&ndash. 28. Frauwallner 1956, 5ff & 130ff. Lamotte 1988, 271ff. Wynne 2019, 269&ndash. 283).
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