Buddhaghosa
Sign in to saveBuddhaghosa was a 5th-century Sinhalese Theravādin Buddhist commentator, translator, and philosopher. He worked in the great monastery (mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka and saw himself as being part of the Vibhajyavāda school and in the lineage of the Sinhalese mahāvihāra.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 0401-00-00
- Died
- 0500-01-01
- Works
- 148
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Recent publications · Crossref
4 total works indexed
- Path of Purifcation
· 2011 · cited 1x
- Path of Purification
· 2011
- The Expositor (Atthasalini) : Buddhaghasa's commentary on the Dhammasangani, the first book of the Abhidhamma Pitaka
· 1920
- The path of purity : being a translation of Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga
· 1923
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Key facts
- Religious biography.name
- Buddhaghosa
- Religious biography.caption
- Buddhaghosa with three copies of Visuddhimagga, Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara
- Religious biography.birth_date
- c. 370 CE
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Bodh Gaya
- Religious biography.death_date
- c. 450 CE
- Religious biography.death_place
- Anuradhapura Kingdom
- Religious biography.religion
- Buddhism
- Religious biography.school
- Theravāda
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Key dates
- Born
- 401
- Died
- 1 January 500
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Buddhaghosa, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
15 sectionsContents
- Name
- Biography
- Commentarial style
- Writing style
- Method
- Yogacara influences
- Theory of consciousness
- Meditation
- Attributed works
- Influence and legacy
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Sinhalese Theravādin Buddhist commentator, translator, and philosopher. He worked in the great monastery (mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka and saw himself as being part of the Vibhajyavāda school and in the lineage of the Sinhalese mahāvihāra.
His best-known work is the Visuddhimagga ("Path of Purification"), a comprehensive summary of older Sinhala commentaries on the scriptural canon of the Theravāda school. According to Sarah Shaw, in Theravāda Buddhism this systematic work is "the principal text on the subject of meditation." The interpretations provided by Buddhaghosa have generally constituted the orthodox understanding of Theravādin scriptures since at least the 12th century CE.