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)...

translated as "knowledge", "accomplishment", "attainment", or "success". The Visuddhimagga is one of the texts to give explicit details about how spiritual masters...

wisdom Buddhaghosa states in his commentary and meditation treatise, the Visuddhimagga, that there are many different types and aspects of paññā but does not...

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"...

argued that the Pāli Canon and the Visuddhimagga give different descriptions of the jhānas, regarding the Visuddhimagga description to be incorrect. Accordingly...

the lineage of the Sinhalese Mahāvihāra. His best-known work is the Visuddhimagga ("Path of Purification"), a comprehensive summary of older Sinhala commentaries...

The four immeasurables are explained in The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga), written in the fifth century CE by the scholar and commentator Buddhaghoṣa...

faculties [to that], and there pick up your theme." Relatedly, the Visuddhimagga and other post-canonical Pali commentaries caution against one spiritual...

Stream-enterer, Once-returner, Non-returner and the Arahant. In the Visuddhimagga the five stages are the culmination of the seven purifications. The...