abhidharma

…About 100 years after the death of Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism (thought to have been around the time of King Ashoka in the mid-3rd century BCE), the Buddhist sect gradually split into about 20 schools, which established the complex and magnificent Abhidharma (abhidharma) and engaged in debates. The Buddhism of this period is called Hinayana Buddhism, and is comparable to the Christian scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages in the West.

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…仏教の創始者釈迦の滅後約100年して(前3世紀半ばアショーカ王の頃と思われる)仏教教団はしだいに20ほどの部派に分裂し，煩瑣にして壮大な論蔵(アビダルマ(阿毘達磨)abhidharma)を打ち立て論争を行った。この時代の仏教を小乗仏教といい，西洋中世のキリスト教のスコラ哲学に比肩される。…

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