The Visuddhimagga (Pali; English: The Path of Purification), is the 'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa...
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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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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"...
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argued that the Pāli Canon and the Visuddhimagga give different descriptions of the jhānas, regarding the Visuddhimagga description to be incorrect. Accordingly...
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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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Brahmavihara (section Visuddhimagga)
The four immeasurables are explained in The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga), written in the fifth century CE by the scholar and commentator Buddhaghoṣa...
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faculties [to that], and there pick up your theme." Relatedly, the Visuddhimagga and other post-canonical Pali commentaries caution against one spiritual...
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Stream-enterer, Once-returner, Non-returner and the Arahant. In the Visuddhimagga the five stages are the culmination of the seven purifications. The...
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