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The Madhyamaka is regarded as a reaction against the development of the Abhidhamma. In the abhidhamma, the understanding of anatman is developed by analysing phenomena into single dhammas, "each with an inherent 'own-nature'". By doing so, the Abhidhamma analysis constituted independent existing 'things', contrary to the Buddha's teachings on the middle way.

The Madhyamaka school is not part of Mahayana eventhough Mahayana originated from it.

Ming Sect is the modern form of Madyamaka (that positioned betwen Theravada and Mahayana), White Lotus Buddhism is the modern form of Ming Sect. And today, Kalachakra Madhyamaka is the modern form of White Lotus Buddhism.

The threefold training for Kalachakra Madhyamaka monks:
1. Adhisila-sikkha: Restrained with regard to the monk's rules.
2. Adhicitta-sikkha: Detached from sensuous objects, entering first jhana, second jhana, third jhana, fourth jhana.
3. Adhipanna-sikkha: Understands the suffering, the origination, the cessation, and the religion that being used for it__which is Noble Eightfold Path.

Kalachakra Madhyamaka Tipitaka:
1. Vinaya Pitaka.
2. Sutta Pitaka.
3. Sikkha Pitaka.