Knowra Abhidharma Abhidharma Abhidharma is a Buddhist tradition of systematic analysis that classifies experience, mental states, and phenomena. Its analyses explain how conditioned experience arises and how insight can lead to liberation.
Dharma theory : The analysis of experience into basic events or factors, called dharmas, in Buddhist philosophy. Abhidharma uses dharmas as the units for classifying experience.
Five aggregates : Form, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness: five groups used to analyze a person’s experience. They provide a broad scheme that Abhidharma refines into more specific factors.
Early Buddhist schools : Communities that formed distinct lineages and doctrines after the early Buddhist community divided. Their scholastic traditions produced different Abhidharma collections and interpretations.
Madhyamaka : A Mahayana Buddhist philosophical tradition that uses analysis to show that phenomena lack intrinsic nature. Madhyamaka critiques Abhidharma claims that dharmas possess ultimate existence.
Citta : The mind or a moment of consciousness in Buddhist philosophical and contemplative traditions. Abhidharma analyzes consciousness as a sequence of distinct mental events.
Twelve sense bases : Six faculties and their six corresponding objects, used in Buddhism to analyze sensory experience. They map how contact and perception arise within Abhidharma accounts of experience.
Abhidhamma Pitaka : The third collection of the Pali Canon, containing Theravada works of systematic Buddhist analysis. It is the surviving canonical Abhidharma collection of the Theravada tradition.
Yogachara : A Mahayana Buddhist tradition that analyzes consciousness and the structure of experience. Yogachara reworks scholastic analyses of mind within a different account of cognition.
Caitasika : A mental factor that arises in association with a moment of consciousness. These factors specify the qualities and functions accompanying each mental event.
Eighteen elements : Six faculties, six objects, and six kinds of consciousness in a Buddhist scheme of experience. This scheme breaks sensory cognition into interacting components.
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