Patthana
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The Patthana is a complex and voluminous text within the Abhidhamma Pitaka, which is the third and latest collection of texts in the Pali canon of Theravada Buddhism. Unlike the Sutta and Vinaya Pitakas, the Abhidhamma texts are generally considered to be the words of disciples and scholars, rather than the Buddha himself. The Patthana specifically deals with causality and 23 other kinds of relationships between phenomena, both mental and material. It is one of the seven texts within the Abhidhamma Pitaka, which collectively offer a detailed, schematic reworking of doctrinal material found in the Suttas, focusing on ethics, psychology, and epistemology. The Abhidhamma system aims to analyze reality and guide individuals toward enlightenment by understanding the impermanence of all things.123
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