Disputed Dharmas _ early Buddhist theories on existence

Abstract

Author's revised study of an important Abhidharma text. "Abhidharma demands careful study, not because it was an extended prelude, interlude, or episode in the history of the Buddhist thought, but because it was a period of indispensable historical importance: the focus for the religious life of the intellectual elite of much of the monastic community for over 600 years and the foundation of virtually all later doctrinal developments within Buddhism."