- The
Visuddhimagga (Pali; English: The Path of Purification), is the 'great treatise' on
Buddhist practice and Theravāda
Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa...
- 1229ff.) and
Vibhanga (Vbh. XII) as well as in the post-canonical
Visuddhimagga (Vsm. XXII 49, 65)
enumerate ten
defilements (dasa kilesa-vatthūni)...
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translated as "knowledge", "accomplishment", "attainment", or "success". The
Visuddhimagga is one of the
texts to give
explicit details about how
spiritual masters...
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wisdom Buddhaghosa states in his
commentary and
meditation treatise, the
Visuddhimagga, that
there are many
different types and
aspects of paññā but does not...
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argued that the Pali
Canon and the
Visuddhimagga give
different descriptions of the jhanas,
regarding the
Visuddhimagga-description to be incorrect. According...
- the
lineage of the
Sinhalese Mahāvihāra. His best-known work is the
Visuddhimagga ("Path of Purification"), a
comprehensive summary of
older Sinhala commentaries...
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similarity to the
Visuddhimagga by Buddhaghosa, and it is
highly probable that it had an
influence on Buddhaghosa.
While the
Visuddhimagga is a much longer...
- of his
forty meditation objects listed in the
third chapter of the
Visuddhimagga,
which are
partially derived from the Pāli Canon. In this
sense "kammatthana"...
- Buddhism".
Access to Insight. Buddhaghosa, Bhadantãcariya (2010) [1956].
Visuddhimagga: The Path of
Purification (PDF).
Translated by Ñãṇamoli,
Bhikkhu (4th ed...
- his
influential standard-work
Visuddhimagga, samādhi is the "proximate cause" to the
obtainment of wisdom. The
Visuddhimagga describes 40
different objects...
