The Abhidhamma is the strangest thing in the Pali Canon and the least read outside monastic education. It takes the discourses and removes the narrative frame entirely: no listeners, no locations, no persons, only dhammas — the irreducible mental and physical events — classified, cross-indexed, and analysed for what conditions what. The Theravada counts eighty-nine types of consciousness. The point is to make anatta operational: if a person can be exhaustively described as a stream of impersonal events with nothing left over, the self was never among the parts. In Myanmar it is chanted for the dead and studied seriously; elsewhere in the Buddhist world it is largely left alone.