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Visuddhimagga

PATH OF PURIFICATION · Chapters 12–23 · volume 2 of 2

The Visuddhimagga, “The Path of Purification” — the second of its two volumes. Dhammapāla's subcommentary on it, the Paramatthamañjūsā, stands in the Ṭīkā layer.

This volume holds chapters 12–23: the supernormal powers and the direct knowledges (12–13), the soil of understanding — aggregates, bases and elements, faculties and truths, dependent origination (14–17) — the five purifications from purification of view to purification by knowledge and vision (18–22), and the benefits of developing understanding (23). The closing lines count the whole work at fifty-eight recitation sections: Visuddhimaggapakaraṇaṃ niṭṭhitaṃ.

The Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana corpus files the Visuddhimagga with the canonical (mūla) texts, but it is not canon; it is translated in full here.

How it ends

Pāḷigaṇanāya pana sā aṭṭhapaññāsabhāṇavārā hotīti.

Visuddhimaggapakaraṇaṃ niṭṭhitaṃ.

SourcesColophons of the two volumes; Buddhaghosa dated as in the rest of this layer (Norman 1983, p. 130).

Layer
Aṭṭhakathā — commentary
Collection
PATH OF PURIFICATION · volume 2 of 2
On
Chapters 12–23
Written by
BuddhaghosaHinüber 1996 / Norman 1983
When
370–450 CENorman 1983, p. 130
Pali text
Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana (CST4)
English
Complete in draft, not yet reviewed · 2,192 paragraphs over 55 pages
  1. 12. Description of the Kinds of Supernormal Power12. Iddhividhaniddeso
  2. 13. Description of the Direct Knowledges13. Abhiññāniddeso
  3. 14. Description of the Aggregates14. Khandhaniddeso
  4. 15. Description of the Bases and Elements15. Āyatanadhātuniddeso
  5. 16. Description of the Faculties and Truths16. Indriyasaccaniddeso
  6. The account of the description of sufferingDukkhaniddesakathā
  7. 17. Description of the Soil of Understanding17. Paññābhūminiddeso
  8. 18. Description of Purification of View18. Diṭṭhivisuddhiniddeso
  9. 19. Description of Purification by Overcoming Doubt19. Kaṅkhāvitaraṇavisuddhiniddeso
  10. 20. Description of Purification by Knowledge and Vision of What Is and Is Not the Path20. Maggāmaggañāṇadassanavisuddhiniddeso
  11. 21. Description of Purification by Knowledge and Vision of the Way21. Paṭipadāñāṇadassanavisuddhiniddeso
  12. 22. Description of Purification by Knowledge and Vision22. Ñāṇadassanavisuddhiniddeso
  13. 23. Description of the Benefits of Developing Understanding23. Paññābhāvanānisaṃsaniddeso