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Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century
Sinhalese Theravādin
Buddhist commentator,...
- Pali. He is said to have met
Buddhagosa at sea
while returning to India, his work unfinished.
Buddhadatta asked Buddhagosa to send him his translations...
- samādhi is
defined as ekaggata, one-pointedness of mind (Citt****'ekaggatā).
Buddhagosa defines samādhi as "the
centering of
consciousness and
consciousness concomitants...
-
various (some anonymous) authors, such as
Buddhagosa, Dhammapala, Mahanama, Upasena, and Buddhadatta.
Buddhagosa writes that he
based his
commentaries on...
-
often presented as a form of
focused attention or concentration, as in
Buddhagosa's Theravada classic the
Visuddhimagga ("Path of purification", 5th c. CE)...
- tradition,
samadhi is
interpreted as
concentration on a
meditation object.
Buddhagosa defines samadhi as "the
centering of
consciousness and
consciousness concomitants...
- Rahula's book
would more
aptly be
titled What
Buddhagosa Taught.
According to
David Kalupahana,
Buddhagosa was
influenced by
Mahayana Buddhism, and introduced...
- four
categories of Śīla
while Buddhagosa gives five.
Upatissa gives four ways of
cultivating Anapanasati,
while Buddhagosa gives eight. In addition, the...
- Theravādins, and it is
possible that it was
first introduced by the
scholar Buddhagosa. All
Abhidharma schools also
developed complex theories of
causation and...
- when they die.
Contrary though, in the
Majjhima Nikaya commentary by
Buddhagosa, Yama is a vimānapeta – a
preta with
occasional suffering. In
other parts...
