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Milinda
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Mah-a kassapa
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Mahinda
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Moggaliputta Tissa
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Detailed explanation-1: -Notes: The Abhidhamma treatise Kathavatthu was written by Moggaliputta Tissa. He was a Buddhist monk and scholar who lived in the 3rd century BC . Moggaliputta-Tissa was the spiritual teacher of the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka, and his son Mahinda, who brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Abhidhammattha-sangaha was composed in India or in Myanmar (Burma), the chief centre for Abhidhamma studies. Written in Pali by the monk Anuruddha, it dates from no earlier than the 8th century and probably from the 11th or 12th.
Detailed explanation-3: -Third Buddhist Council Main objective was to purify Buddhism from opportunistic factions and corruption in the Sangha. The Abhidhamma Pitaka was composed here making the almost completion of the modern Pali Tipitaka.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Abhidhamma Pitaka deals with the matters of metaphysics and psychology. These three Pitakas were collectively called as Triratnas.