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Abhidhamma Pitakas contain

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Teachings attributed to the Buddha or his close companions

Philosophical and psychological discourse and interpretation of Buddhist doctrine

Rules and regulations of monastic life ranging from dress code and dietary rules to prohibitions of certain personal conducts

The Tripitakas of Buddhism are known as the Sutta, the Vinaya and the Abhidhamma Pitakas.
Out of them, the Abhidhamma Pitaka is a detailed scholastic reworking (interpretation and comment) of material appearing in the Suttas, according to schematic classifications. It does not contain systematic philosophical treatises, but summaries or enumerated lists.
Abhidhamma has been variously described as philosophy, psychology, and metaphysics.
Tradition holds that the Buddha thought out the Abhidhamma immediately after his enlightenment then taught it to the gods some years later.
Later the Buddha repeated it to Sariputta who then handed it on to his disciples. Scholars, however, generally date the Abhidhamma works to originating sometime around the third century BCE, 100 to 200 years after the death of the Buddha.
Therefore, the seven Abhidhamma works are generally claimed by scholars not to represent the words of the Buddha himself, but those of disciples and scholars