Abhidhamma Pitaka - Nature of Abhidhamma

Nature of Abhidhamma

Abhidhamma has been variously described as philosophy, psychology, metaphysics etc. L. S. Cousins says that the abhidhamma methodology looks at things in terms of occasions or events instead of sequences or processes.

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