Section 1: Introduction to AbhidhammaThe following three essays have been grouped together at the beginning of the book because they all deal in a fairly general way with some basic ideas used in abhidhamma. They provide some background to the canonical books of abhidhamma and introduce the way in which abhidhamma analyses experience in terms of four 'basic realities', namely consciousness (citta), the mental factors which arise with consciousness (cetasika), matter (rupa) and nibbana.
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