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The path of purification:

Visuddhimagga
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Buddhist Publication Society, 1991 - Theravāda Buddhism - 907 pages
  

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Contents

TAKING A MEDITATION SUBJECT
81
PURIFICATION BY KNOWLEDGE VISION OF WHAT
86
The Hacked and Scattered 75
105
THE EARTH KASIÓA
113
THE EARTH KASIÓA THE EIGHTEEN FAULTS OF A MONASTERY 2
116
Balancing the effort 66
131
Extending the sign 126
146
The fivefold reckoning of jhána 198
160
General 82
182
Insight 6
210
3 Recollection of the Sangha 89
218
OTHER RECOLLECTIONS AS MEDITATION SUBJECTS 7 Mindfulness of death 1
236
162
263
10 The recollection of peace 245
286
THE DIVINE ABIDINGS
291
THE DIVINE ABIDINGS Loving kindness 1
308
THE IMMATERIAL STATES The base consisting of boundless space 1
318
THE IMMATERIAL STATES
321
The base consisting of neither perception nor nonperception 40 General 56
330
NUTRIMENT AND THE ELEMENTS Perception of repulsiveness in nutriment 1
344
Development of concentrationconclusion 118
367
THE SUPERNORMAL POWERS
369
1 The kinds of supernormal power 2
378
DEPENDENT ORIGINATION A Definition of dependent origination 1
539
The Wheel of Becoming 273
598
291
601
PURIFICATION OF VIEW I Introductory 1
606
PURIFICATION OF VIEW
609
PURIFICATION BY OVERCOMING DOUBT
621
PURIFICATION BY KNOWLEDGE VISION OF WHAT IS IS NOT THE PATH
631
609
635
PURIFICATION BY KNOWLEDGE AND VISION OF THE WAY
666
Knowledge of danger 35
675
Knowledge of equanimity about formations 61
684
631
694
The difference in the noble paths factors etc 111 9 Conformity knowledge 128
699
PURIFICATION BY KNOWLEDGE AND VISION
701
PURIFICATION BY KNOWLEDGE AND VISION I Changeoflineage paths and fruits 1
707
THE BENEFITS IN DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING
730
CONCLUSION
745
Index ofSubjects Proper Names
751
PaliEnglish Glossary of Some Subjects and Technical Terms
774
THE MATERIALITY AGGREGATE
788
DEPENDENT ORIGINATION
794
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abandoning Abhidhamma absorption according adverting aggregates alms food applied thought apprehending Arahant Arahantship arises ascetic practice attainment base consisting beginning bhikkhu Blessed bliss bodily body bones breathing Buddhaghosa called cessation characteristic clinging colour commentary concentration condition consciousness consisting of boundless contemplation craving death defilements deities dependent origination desireless Dhamma direct-knowledge divine eye elder enlightenment factor equanimity faculty feeling fine-material firstly five five aggregates formations function greed happiness head hairs immaterial impermanent in-breaths individual essence insight jhána kamma kinds of becoming knowledge life-continuum living loving-kindness materiality meaning meditation subject mental mentality-materiality mind monastery Nibbána not-self nutriment occurs one’s pain Pali path Paþis perception profitable proximate cause purification rebirth-linking recollection robe root-cause sense desires sense sphere special qualities Sri Lanka stream-entry suffering supernormal power supramundane sustained thought Sutta things three kinds understanding understood unprofitable Uposatha venerable sir Vibh virtue visible data Vism-mhþ Visuddhimagga words

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TitleThe path of purification: Visuddhimagga
AuthorBuddhaghosa
Translated byBhikkhu Ñānamoli
Edition5, reprint
PublisherBuddhist Publication Society, 1991
ISBN9552400236, 9789552400230
Length907 pages
  
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