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    Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher. He worked in the Great Monastery (Mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura...
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    'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka. It is a manual condensing...
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  • accesstoinsight.org. Buddhaghosa (1999), pp. 586-7. Buddhaghosa (1999), p. 587. Bodhi (2000a), p. 267. Bodhi (2000a), pp. 83-4, 371 n. 13. Buddhaghosa (1999), p...
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  • Atthasālinī (Pali) is a Buddhist text composed by Buddhaghosa in the Theravada Abhidharma tradition. The title has been translated as "The Expositor"...
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    from direct spiritual experience. Fifth-century Theravada commentator Buddhaghosa states that this category of knowledge is produced from higher meditative...
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  • by a consensus of scholars as Buddhaghosa's. The commentator Dhammapala's date is uncertain. He wrote after Buddhaghosa, and probably no later than the...
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  • handful of discourses and then in the context of "work" or "trade." Buddhaghosa uses "kammatthana" to refer to each of his forty meditation objects listed...
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    Piyadassi Thera (1999); Piyadassi Thera (n.d.) Buddhaghosa (1999), pp. 129, 131. Note that Buddhaghosa clearly references the last six bojjhangas in the...
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    Buddhaghosa Mahasthavir (Nepali: बुद्धघोष महास्थविर, born Sapta Ratna Vajracharya, 12 October 1921 – 24 September 2011) was a Nepalese Buddhist monk who...
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    Gana (section Buddhaghosa)
    Adigal, describes the prescribed offering for eighteen kind of ganas. The Buddhaghosa mentions the palaces of the ganadeva-puttas ("Ganadevaputtānañ ca vimānāni")...
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