BPS Publishers The Theravada Abhidhamma

"This volume is an outstanding, in-depth study of the Theravada Abhidhamma. Professor Karunadasa has dissected and clarified the core doctrinal issues of the Abhidhamma philosophy, psychology, and ethics in a lucid and readable manner.” -- Guang Xing, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre of Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong and author of The Concept of the BuddhaGuang Xing, Director, Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong, author of The Concept of the Buddha: Its Evolution from Early Buddhism to the “Professor Y. Karunadasa, a leading living authority on Theravada Abhidhamma, clarifies this ancient philosophy and brings it within the reach of students pursuing both religious and philosophical studies. Professor Karunadasa’s characteristic clarity of thinking makes this a lucid exposition of the core doctrinal tenets of the Theravada Abhidhamma. It is of course true that it is the nature of conditioned reality that this work seeks to expound. However, as Buddhism stresses, it is by penetrating the nature of conditioned reality that the unconditioned reality of nibbana can be realized.” -- Asanga Tilakaratne, (formerly) Senior Chair, Professor of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.