Buddhaghosa
5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher
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Fifth-century Buddhist scholar who dominated Theravāda commentary from Sri Lanka's Anurādhapura monastery. Buddhaghosa's philosophical output became the blueprint for how generations of monks understood their texts.
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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.
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