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    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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  • similarity to the Visuddhimagga by Buddhaghosa, and it is highly probable that it had an influence on Buddhaghosa. While the Visuddhimagga is a much longer...
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    argued that the Pali Canon and the Visuddhimagga give different descriptions of the jhanas, regarding the Visuddhimagga-description to be incorrect. According...
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  • Buddhism". Access to Insight. Buddhaghosa, Bhadantãcariya (2010) [1956]. Visuddhimagga: The Path of Purification (PDF). Translated by Ñãṇamoli, Bhikkhu (4th ed...
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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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    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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  • 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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