Compendium of Philosophy: Being a Translation of the Abhidhammattha-Saṅgaha

Anuruddha

Translated by Shwe Zan Aung and Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids

10 chapters · about 2 h

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The opening

PART I — COMPENDIUM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

COMPENDIUM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

§ 1. Introductory.

The peerless very Buddha, with the Law Of Righteousness and the Fraternity Of worth supreme, with reverence I salute. Now will I speak in summaries concise Of things in Abhidhamma-lore contained.

These things are set forth, in their ultimate sense, As Categories Four — first, Consciousness; Next, Mental Properties; then Qualities Material, Bodily; Nibbana last.

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The words
Shwe Zan Aung and Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 4 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 7 places
  • A preface, foreword or afterword, in 4 places
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 2 places
  • The index
  • Printer's colophon ('BILLINO AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD', p. 298)