The Aneñjasappaya-sutta and its Parallels on Imperturbability and on the Contribution of Insight to the Development of Tranquillity
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https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v26i2.177Keywords:
Āgamas, Comparative Studies, Imperturbability, Tranquillity & InsightAbstract
The present article studies the meditative approaches to imperturbability depicted in the Aneñjasappaya-sutta and its Chinese and Tibetan parallels. By way of introduction to the main theme broached in this discourse, I briefly survey Pali discourses relevant to the early Buddhist notion of imperturbability. Next I examine the presentation given in the Aneñjasappaya-sutta based on translated extracts from its Madhyama-agama parallel, noting variations between these two and a Tibetan version extant in Samathadeva’s commentary on the Abhidharmakosabhasya. In the concluding part of the article, I turn to the relationship between tranquillity and insight reflected in the Aneñjasappaya-sutta.
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