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Dhammatthavinicchaya (Pāḷi Only)

A collection of classic passages from the Pāḷi texts with teachings about the doctrine, meditation, the factors of awakening, Abhidhamma and the Buddha.

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Introduction – 8<br />

One strategy is to map teachings against other teachings, and play<br />

them out, so that in the first of the sections presented here, for<br />

instance, the Three Marks of Existence (Tilakkhaṇa) are mapped<br />

against the Five Components (Pañcakkhandha), and show how the<br />

components are affected by the marks teachings.<br />

Repetition is a hallmark of the early teachings, so that a teaching is<br />

often repeated with small, but sometimes interesting, variations that<br />

help bring out the deeper meaning of that particular teaching.<br />

Teachings which otherwise stand in their own right are often<br />

included within other teachings, and then throw light both on the<br />

new subject, by explaining it, or helping to analyse it, and on the<br />

original teaching which is shown as having relevance in a new<br />

context.<br />

Sources<br />

Here is a summary showing where the material has been drawn<br />

from, 2 with the para-canonical and non-canonical sources<br />

highlighted in dark red:<br />

Dhamma Topics<br />

1. The Three Marks: from Alagaddūpamasuttaṁ, MN 22<br />

2. The Four Noble Truths: from Khandasuttaṁ, SN 56.13<br />

3. The Four Factors of a Stream-Enterer: from Saṅgītisuttaṁ, DN<br />

32<br />

4. The Five Components that provide Fuel for Attachment: from<br />

2 I have mainly used the Myanmar Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana edition of the text,<br />

with some small unnoted changes to correct ahistorical irregularities in<br />

that edition, like writing vīriya, a Sanskritic form, instead of <strong>Pāḷi</strong> viriya.

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