Buddhadatta Thera was a 5th-century Theravada Buddhist writer from the town of Uragapura in the Chola kingdom of South India. He wrote many of his works in the Bhūtamangalagāma monastery and his patron was Accutavikkanta of the Kambala dynasty. Buddhadatta traveled to Sri Lanka`s Mahāvihāra in Anurādhapura to study and translate the commenta....
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(from the article `Abhidhammavatara`) ...in the Abhidhamma (scholastic) section of the Theravada Buddhist canon. The Abhidhammavatara was written in Pali, apparently in the 5th century, ... Buddhadatta, a contemporary of Buddhaghosa, was a native of Uragapura, near modern Tiruchirappalli, in southern India. Like Buddhaghosa, he went to ...
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