Buddhaghosa
5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher · India · Writers · Lived 401 to 500 · aged 99
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Something wrong?A 5th-century monk whose systematic reading of Buddhist scripture became the standard interpretation for an entire tradition - a thousand years later, his framework still shapes how Theravādin monastics understand meditation and doctrine.
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, Only virtue's water can / wash out the stain in living things.
Shine as they may, there are no kings / Adorned with jewelry and pearls / That shine as does a man restrained / Adorned with virtue's ornament.
Hate seeks out only unreal faults, while understanding seeks out only real faults.
About this person
Buddhaghosa was a Sinhalese scholar working at the great monastery in Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka, in the 5th century. He saw himself as part of the Vibhajyavāda school and the lineage of the Sinhalese mahāvihāra. His project was synthesizing older Sinhala commentaries on the Theravāda scriptural canon into a coherent philosophical system. The result was the Visuddhimagga, the "Path of Purification" - a comprehensive guide that became the principal Theravāda text on meditation. By the 12th century his interpretations had hardened into orthodoxy. Western scholars and Theravādin Buddhists alike recognize him as the school's most important commentator, the voice that translated earlier fragmented teachings into the architecture that still stands.
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