VisuddhimaggaAn encyclopedia of the Buddha’s teaching, written by Buddhaghosa at the request of Saá¹…ghapÄla Thera. It is said (Cv.xxxvii.236) that when Buddhaghosa arrived at the MahÄvihÄra and asked permission to translate the Singhalese Commentaries into PÄli, the monks, to test him, gave him two stanzas (quoted at the beginning of the book) on which they asked him to write a thesis. As soon as he had finished this, the devas hid the copy, and the same thing happened after it was rewritten. He then rewrote it a third time, and when it was being read in the assembly of monks, the two previous copies suddenly reappeared and were found to agree in every detail with the new one. For a description of the book, see Law, Hist. of PÄli Lit., ii.399f. A Commentary on the work exists, called the ParamatthamañjÅ«sa by DhammÄpÄla (P.L.C. 113; Svd.1231), and a Visuddhimagga Ganthipadattha was written by SÄradassÄ«, a monk of Ava. (SÄs.116; Bode, op. cit., 56). |
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Dictionary of PÄli Proper Names • G.P. Malalasekera |
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