Buddhaghosa · Theology

Seeing Things As They Are

Vipassana in Buddhaghosa's system: insight sees all experience as impermanent, unsatisfactory, and not-self; the chariot analogy and the two truths show how a person can be real by convention yet empty on analysis.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that insight sees the three characteristics - anicca (impermanence), dukkha (unsatisfactoriness), anatta (not-self) - in all experience; that the ‘person’ is like the chariot, a valid designation upon parts in which no further entity is found; that Theravada exegesis distinguishes conventional…

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