Second, using abhi in the sense of preponderance and distinction, abhidharma has also been deemed a distinct, higher teaching; the essence of the Buddha's teachings or that which goes beyond what is given in the Buddha's discourses, in a sense somewhat reminiscent of the term "metaphysics" (e.g., Dhs-a 2 3; Horner 1941; von Hinüber 1994).
Each of these groupings two radical and one traditionalist championed a different aesthetic ideal, along with a distinct concept of the essence and function and music.
In a modular approach, we first analysed two skeleton models, each aimed at capturing the essence of a distinct aspect of the system.
He comments that either essence is really identical with existence and differs from it (1) only conceptually or (2) intentionally, or else (3) existence is a distinct thing, i.e., the act of the essence and really distinct from it (PB 2.60).
Anything that can deliver the useful essence of Facebook without the effort has a distinct advantage; the problem for Facebook is that, for all the redesigns it imposes on its users, it is not designed specifically for the mobile Web.
The dharmadhātu is not something we have in common, a foundational essence; it is something in which we each have a distinct and indispensable contributory share.
However, he does not provide a clear answer to the question whether the part of an essence is a type of integral part, or whether it is a distinct kind of part.
A distinct claim is that theological voluntarism implies that the content of morality is itself arbitrary, that it is of the essence of morality to exhibit a certain rational structure, and that theological voluntarism precludes its having that structure.
It's a distinct disadvantage".
