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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emios" data-source="post: 29367458" data-attributes="member: 254970"><p><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/oo.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":oo:" title="Oo    :oo:" data-shortname=":oo:" /> The Buddha dwelt in the celestial domain of the thirty-three divine beings (Tāvatiṃsa-deva-loka) to teach the doctrine of the Abhidhamma to the Devas and his mother for three months during Vassavāsa (Rainy Season Retreat). It is believed that before the final descend at Sankassiya on the full moon day of Śarada Pūrṇimā, each day the Buddha descended to the lake Anottatadaha; where he was served by Ven. Sāriputta. In return, the Buddha instructed his most illustrious disciple Sāriputta about the Abhidhamma in the form of mnemonic verses - Mātikā or matrix, who in turn taught it to the five hundred distinguished monks acknowledged as the arahata. Thus, Abhidhamma by way of the oral tradition of transmission (through ācārya-disciple tradition) beginning with the Buddha was passed on to Sariputta and in the like manner through Bhaddaji, Sobhita, Piyajali, Piyapala, Piyadassi, Kosiyaputta, Siggava, Sandeha, Moggalliputta, Sudatta, Dhammiya, Dasaka, Sonaka and Revata; and then through Mahinda, Ittiya, Sambala, Pandita, and Bhaddanama it reached Sri Lanka</p></blockquote><p></p>

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