Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher. He worked in the Great Monastery (Mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura...
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accesstoinsight.org. Buddhaghosa (1999), pp. 586-7. Buddhaghosa (1999), p. 587. Bodhi (2000a), p. 267. Bodhi (2000a), pp. 83-4, 371 n. 13. Buddhaghosa (1999), p...
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'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka. It is a manual condensing...
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Atthasālinī (Pali) is a Buddhist text composed by Buddhaghosa in the Theravada Abhidharma tradition. The title has been translated as "The Expositor"...
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from direct spiritual experience. Fifth-century Theravada commentator Buddhaghosa states that this category of knowledge is produced from higher meditative...
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Atthakatha (section Buddhaghosa)
by a consensus of scholars as Buddhaghosa's. The commentator Dhammapala's date is uncertain. He wrote after Buddhaghosa, and probably no later than the...
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handful of discourses and then in the context of "work" or "trade." Buddhaghosa uses "kammatthana" to refer to each of his forty meditation objects listed...
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Piyadassi Thera (1999); Piyadassi Thera (n.d.) Buddhaghosa (1999), pp. 129, 131. Note that Buddhaghosa clearly references the last six bojjhangas in the...
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Buddhaghosa Mahasthavir (Nepali: बुद्धघोष महास्थविर, born Sapta Ratna Vajracharya, 12 October 1921 – 24 September 2011) was a Nepalese Buddhist monk who...
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Gana (section Buddhaghosa)
Adigal, describes the prescribed offering for eighteen kind of ganas. The Buddhaghosa mentions the palaces of the ganadeva-puttas ("Ganadevaputtānañ ca vimānāni")...
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There, they will attain full enlightenment. The Theravadin commentator Buddhaghosa placed the arhat at the completion of the path to liberation. Mahayana...
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he reaches absorption as well." (Vism. Ch. IV, §48) The commentator Buddhaghosa adds: "Strong mindfulness, however, is needed in all instances; for mindfulness...
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did not accept these new scriptures. Instead, Mahāvihāra scholars like Buddhaghosa focused on the exegesis of the Pali scriptures and on the Abhidhamma...
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Gautama Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga Bodhidharma Zhiyi Emperor Wen of Sui Songtsen Gampo...
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Gautama Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga Bodhidharma Zhiyi Emperor Wen of Sui Songtsen Gampo...
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the word is sometimes translated "titan", "demigod", or "antigod". Buddhaghosa explains that their name derives from the myth of their defeat at the...
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အမှတ် (၉) မော်လမြိုင်; commonly known by its original name, Shin Maha Buddhaghosa National School (Burmese: ရှင် မဟာဗုဒ္ဓဃောသ အမျိုးသား အထက်တန်း ကျောင်း)...
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Sutta Nipata text to the latter being in verse. Buddhaghosa (1999), Vism. VIII, 44. Given Buddhaghosa's inclusion of the brain in aṭṭhimiñjaṃ could lead...
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literature (tīkā) by Dhammapāla on Buddhaghosa's 5th century work Visuddhimagga (English: The Path of Purification). Buddhaghosa, Bhadantacariya (2020). The...
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Visuddhimagga chapter (XV) on the Sense Bases (Buddhaghosa, 1999, p. 489, verse 8). Vsm. XIV, 37 (trans. Buddhaghosa, 1999, p. 443; square-bracketed text in...
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seen, for instance, in (listed chronologically) Warder (2004, p. 95), Buddhaghosa (1999, pp. 306ff, Vsm. IX.77ff), Saddhatissa (2003, p. 3, SN 3.39), Thanissaro...
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1995a, p. 87. Buddhaghosa 1999, p. 6. Buddhaghosa 1999, p. 750, n. 3. Buddhaghosa 1999, p. 1. Buddhaghosa 1999, pp. 1, 7. Buddhaghosa 1999, p. 7. Satipatthana...
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Elizabeth J. (June 1994). "A Journey into Buddhism". Access to Insight. Buddhaghosa, Bhadantãcariya (2010) [1956]. Visuddhimagga: The Path of Purification...
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Buddha and Buddhist philosophers who follow him such as Vasubandhu and Buddhaghosa, generally argue for this view by analyzing the person through the schema...
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of the Buddha: Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention...
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which appear in the commentary to the Majjhima Nikāya attributed to Buddhaghosa (5th century CE) and the Theragāthā commentary attributed to Dhammapāla...
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Buddhist philosophers, such as Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Dharmakirti and Buddhaghosa, consistently critiqued Creator God views put forth by Hindu thinkers...
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Buddhist meditation (section Buddhaghosa)
A Jataka tale gives a list of 38 of them. [1]. Buddhaghosa & Nanamoli (1999), pp. 85, 90. Buddhaghoṣa & Nanamoli (1999), p. 110. Regarding the jhanic...
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Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka and was composed in the 5th century by Buddhaghoṣa. Scholars are hesitant to make claims about the historical facts of the...
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Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. The Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different...
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