2️⃣ Abhidharma §

= the second stage of ☸️ Buddhism; the third of three groups of texts in the 📙 Buddhist canon; a movement which grew out of attempts to systematically interpret the discourses of the 🧘‍♂️ Buddha¹

Concerns §

• The development of metaphysical & epistemological theories as interpretations of Early Buddhism
• -> ⚛️ Abhidharma Metaphysics

Schools (select few) §

1. Vaibhāṣika (Sarvāstivāda)
   • “doctrine that everything exists”
2. Sautrāntika
   • proposes less kinds of Dharmas

3. Theravāda (the form of Buddhism presently practiced in much of Southeast Asia) §

Footnotes §

1. Siderits M. Buddhism as Philosophy. Second edition. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc; 2021. ↩