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Dharma and Abhidharma1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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Most commonly it is presented as a list of beneficial psychic characteristics (kuśala dharma) or simply psychic characteristics (dharma). Sometimes practising the items of this list is stated to be a precondition for liberation from the intoxicants (āśrava). Or else the list is said to constitute the ‘cultivation of the road’ (mārgabhāvanā). In a few instances the items of the list are characterized as ‘jewels’ (ratna). This characterization occurs where doctrine and discipline (dharmavinaya) are compared with the ocean, and finds its justification in this comparison.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , June 1985 , pp. 305 - 320
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