- The
Visuddhimagga (Pali; English: The Path of Purification; Vietnamese:
Thanh tịnh đạo), is the 'great treatise' on
Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma...
- 1229ff.) and
Vibhanga (Vbh. XII) as well as in the post-canonical
Visuddhimagga (Vsm. XXII 49, 65)
enumerate ten
defilements (dasa kilesa-vatthūni)...
- the
lineage of the
Sinhalese mahāvihāra. His best-known work is the
Visuddhimagga ("Path of Purification"), a
comprehensive summary of
older Sinhala commentaries...
- his
influential standard-work
Visuddhimagga, samādhi is the "proximate cause" to the
obtainment of wisdom. The
Visuddhimagga describes 40
different objects...
- The four
immeasurables are
explained in The Path of
Purification (
Visuddhimagga),
written in the
fifth century CE by the
scholar and
commentator Buddhaghoṣa...
-
explicitly to
nirvana but to "the path of purification" (Pali:
Visuddhimagga). In
Visuddhimagga, Ch. I, v. 5,
Buddhaghosa notes: "Herein,
purification should...
- 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...
- of
purification as
outlined in the
Visuddhimagga as the
basic outline of the path to be followed. The
Visuddhimagga, a
Sinhala Theravāda
doctrinal summa...
-
translated as "knowledge", "accomplishment", "attainment", or "success". The
Visuddhimagga is one of the
texts to give
explicit details about how
spiritual masters...
-
argued that the Pāli
Canon and the
Visuddhimagga give
different descriptions of the jhānas,
regarding the
Visuddhimagga description to be incorrect. Accordingly...
