Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher. He worked in the Great Monastery (Mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura...

Buddhaghosa Mahasthavir (Nepali: बुद्धघोष महास्थविर, born Sapta Ratna Vajracharya, 12 October 1921 – 24 September 2011) was a Nepalese Buddhist monk who...

from direct spiritual experience. Fifth-century Theravada commentator Buddhaghosa states that this category of knowledge is produced from higher meditative...

'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka. It is a manual condensing...

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...

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...

Atthasālinī (Pali) is a Buddhist text composed by Buddhaghosa in the Theravada Abhidharma tradition. The title has been translated as "The Expositor"...

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...

Piyadassi Thera (1999); Piyadassi Thera (n.d.) Buddhaghosa (1999), pp. 129, 131. Note that Buddhaghosa clearly references the last six bojjhangas in the...

There, they will attain full enlightenment. The Theravadin commentator Buddhaghosa placed the arhat at the completion of the path to liberation. Mahayana...

Tamil, describes the prescribed offering for eighteen kind of ganas. The Buddhaghosa mentions the palaces of the ganadeva-puttas ("Ganadevaputtānañ ca vimānāni")...

The Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga Bodhidharma Zhiyi Emperor Wen of Sui Songtsen Gampo...

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...

The Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga Bodhidharma Zhiyi Emperor Wen of Sui Songtsen Gampo...

did not accept these new scriptures. Instead, Mahāvihāra scholars like Buddhaghosa focused on the exegesis of the Pali scriptures and on the Abhidhamma...

အမှတ် (၉) မော်လမြိုင်; commonly known by its original name, Shin Maha Buddhaghosa National School (Burmese: ရှင် မဟာဗုဒ္ဓဃောသ အမျိုးသား အထက်တန်း ကျောင်း)...

which appear in the commentary to the Majjhima Nikāya attributed to Buddhaghosa (5th century CE) and the Theragāthā commentary attributed to Dhammapāla...

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...

of the Buddha: Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention...

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...

he reaches absorption as well." (Vism. Ch. IV, §48) The commentator Buddhaghosa adds: "Strong mindfulness, however, is needed in all instances; for mindfulness...

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...

Buddhist philosophers, such as Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Dharmakirti and Buddhaghosa, consistently critiqued Creator God views put forth by Hindu thinkers...

attributed to Buddhaghosa on the Dhammasangaṅi, the first book of the Theravāda Abhidhamma Piṭaka; In the Sumaṅgala-Vilāsinī (DA 2.431), Buddhaghosa's commentary...

Nagasena Nagarjuna Aryadeva Harivarman Vasubandhu Saṃghabhadra Asanga Buddhaghosa Buddhadatta Dhammapāla Dignāga Dharmakirti Buddhapālita Bhāviveka Dharmapala...

Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. The Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different...

The Buddha Nagasena Aśvaghoṣa Nagarjuna Asanga Vasubandhu Kumārajīva Buddhaghosa Buddhapālita Dignāga Bodhidharma Zhiyi Emperor Wen of Sui Songtsen Gampo...

the word is sometimes translated "titan", "demigod", or "antigod". Buddhaghosa explains that their name derives from the myth of their defeat at the...

Buddha and Buddhist philosophers who follow him such as Vasubandhu and Buddhaghosa, generally argue for this view by analyzing the person through the schema...

Sanskrit compound of the words virūpa (ugly; deformed) and akṣa (eyes). Buddhaghosa interpreted virūpa as also meaning "various", which lends to the understanding...