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visuddhiyā

visuddhi

ablative singular feminine of visuddhi (f.)

  1. purity
  2. purification
  3. cleansing
  4. in Buddhism, one of the seven stages of purification leading to nirvana

Etymology. vi- (prefix, 'apart') + suddhi (purity, from sudh-, 'to purify'); cognate with Sanskrit viśuddhi. In the Theravāda tradition, the seven visuddhis are: sīlavisuddhi (moral purity), cittavisuddhi (mental purity), diṭṭhivisuddhi (purity of view), kaṅkhāvitaraṇavisuddhi (purity of overcoming doubt), maggāmagga-ñāṇadassanavisuddhi (purity of knowledge and vision of what is path and not-path), patipadā-ñāṇadassanavisuddhi (purity of knowledge and vision of the way), and ñāṇadassanavisuddhi (purity of knowledge and vision)—systematized in the Visuddhimagga.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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