Visuddhimagga | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Visuddhimagga


00:00:44 1 Background
00:00:53 1.1 Structure
00:01:25 1.2 Reflecting later developments
00:01:58 1.3 iKasina/i-meditation
00:02:45 1.4 Non-Theravada influences
00:03:28 2 Contents
00:03:37 2.1 Summary
00:04:39 2.2 Seven Stages of Purification
00:06:45 2.3 Siddhis
00:07:30 3 Influence
00:07:39 3.1 Traditional Theravada
00:08:10 3.2 Contemporary Theravada
00:10:22 4 See also
00:10:37 5 Editions
00:10:46 5.1 Printed Pali editions
00:11:12 5.2 South-East Asia
00:11:59 5.3 English translations
00:13:06 5.4 Other European translations



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The Visuddhimagga (Pali; English: The Path of Purification), is the 'great treatise' on Theravada Buddhist doctrine written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th Century in Sri Lanka. It is a manual condensing and systematizing the 5th century understanding and interpretation of the Buddhist path as maintained by the elders of the Mahavihara Monastery in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. 
It is considered the most important Theravada text outside of the Tipitaka canon of scriptures, and is described as "the hub of a complete and coherent method of exegesis of the Tipitaka," but it has also been criticised for its non-canonical departures, and its interpretation of dhyana as concentration-meditation.