The AbbhidhammaTripitaka. P.F.101(B.P.U)2010

The Abbhidhamma is the third division of pāli cannon in the Tripitaka. The Abbhidhamma was delivered in the Tavatiṃsā of deity world by the Buddha. When the Buddha then, come down for the meal, to the human world. The Buddha preached his disciple, Sāriputtara. After that, Sāriputta preached his 500 disciple such as Battaji, and later on, revada and other disciple also learn it from their teaches from hand to hand. It took record the Abbhidhamma in the third Buddhist council. During the reign of Asoka in the 3th century B.C.

According to the development of Abbhidhamma, it is consider as excellent the fruit of the Buddhist philosophy in field of theravada and sarvastivada. But according to the various views there are so many ideas about Origin. Regarding to it, we can fine some information there are some question and appear. First did the Buddha preach himself the Abbhidhamma? Second, was there not Abbhidhamma before the first council? And third, why did the Buddha not separate as Abbhidhamma pitaka? To answer is that we cannot see particularly a part of Dhamma named as Abbhidhamma in early discourse expect only Dhamma and vinaya. But because of Abbhidhamma is also including in the Dhamma.

The name of Abbhidhamma Tipitaka, later on, occurs when his disciples collect the teaching of the Buddha because the Buddha gives his sermon to different person, different place and different time to all beings. The Abbhisdhamma was composed on the basket of sutta and based with same subject at the sutta pitaka. The pāli word Abbhidhamma is combined with two word as abhi or abha and dhamma. Abbhi or abha means ultimate.Dhamma also means teaching or doctrine. According to the this point of views,Abbhi-dhamma means ultimate teaching.

At the present time, there are seven fundamental action in Abbhidhamma books.and its commentary including Visudhimagga is written by the Budhaghosa in first half of the 5^th century. At the time, so many bhikhus in Ceylon the center of southern Buddhist started the study if Abbhidhamma.The Abbhidhamma possessed from the Ceylon to suvaṇṇabhūmi (lower Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia and so on.