There are both plural and singular sankhara in abhidhamm-pitaka

DooDoot wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 18, 2018 6:34 pm

I posted this elsewhere, which says dependent origination 'sankhara' is plural in the suttas but singular in the Abidhamma (by Nyanatiloka).

 

In abhidhamma-pitaka, there are both plural and singular sankhara. You never study abhidhamma, directly, so you believe the distorted debate with a very bias view. You act like a politician who just try every way to discredit your opposite party without caring the fact, no proving, no evidence.

The commentary already described that the suttanta described dhamma individually, fit for each person to enlightenment//understand. However, the individual sutta also connect to the other suttas, too. So, abhidhamma just enumerate those suttas' contents follow the mātikā which often appear in those individual sutta.

Such as in paṭiccasamuppāda-vibhaṅga, that the suttanta-naya (1st section) are showing the complex paṭiccasamuppāda, such as in S.N. Nidānavagga Vibhaṅgasutta. This complex paṭiccasamuppāda often appear in many suttas. But in nidānavagga also have many sutta which taught the individual paṭiccasamuppāda, too, such as in S.N. Nidānavagga Bhūmijasutta and A.N. Tikanipāta Saṅkhārasutta.

So, saṅkhāra in abhidhammanaya describling follow A.N. Tikanipāta Saṅkhārasutta to enumerate suttantanaya for analysis. However, there are more property than that sutta follow the book name "vibhaṅga-analysis", "abhidhamma-the most specification dhamma", and follow abhidhamma-mātikā. So, sāriputta also connect paṭiccasamuppāda with many other suttas, too.

Therefore, the abhidhammanaya just enumerate paṭiccasamuppāda follow to those individual sutta, then use the singular saṅkhāra follow that each case, too.

So, we can conclude that both singular and pural saṅkhāra are appear in abhidhamma because both words appear in abhidhamma-piṭaka and we can found the singular saṅkhāra in sutta, also.