AN INTRODUCTION TO ABHIDHAMMA
Silananda BrahmachariThe author was born in 1905. He served in the Govt. Medical Service for some years and retired in 1941 after a severe illness. Since then he has spent most of his time teaching and in social service. At present he is the Chairman of the Mental Hospitals Committee, Member of the Board of Governors and the Senior Treasurer of the All-Ceylon Buddhist Students' Federa- tion, President of the Ceylon Humanitarian Society and Member of the Central Committee of the Prisoners' Welfare Association. His reformist zeal and empiricist leaning have led him to establish the Tripitaka Course of Studies at the Dharmodaya Pirivena. Colombo, with the Muhandiram Charles Jayasuriya Trust of which he is the Trustee He is the Director of the Arhidhamma Classes at the Welikada Jail, Colombo. He also undertook the translations of Books on Anatomy and Physiology into Sinhalese when he was a Lecturer at the Govt. College of Indigenous Medicine. In 1960 he presided over the All India Buddhist Workers' Religious Convention, which was held in Nagpur.
The reader may see for himself how false the bogey of incomprehensibility drawn around the subject of the Abhidhamma. In the manner the Author has presented the subject, any young adult, particularly if he has done a little Science, should find no difficulty in following it.