Buddhaghosa · Theology

The Path of Purification

Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga orders the entire Buddhist path as three trainings - virtue (sila), concentration (samadhi), and wisdom (pañña) - each making the next possible, together carrying the practitioner to liberation.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Buddhaghosa organized the whole Buddhist path as three trainings - sila (virtue), samadhi (concentration), and pañña (wisdom); that virtue grounds concentration and concentration grounds wisdom; that concentration only suppresses the defilements while wisdom uproots them; and that the Visuddhimagga ar…

Leads to The Buddha.

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