A Treatise on the Paramis

by Ācariya Dhammapāla | 1978 | 23,066 words

The work introduces itself as a treatise composed “for clansmen following the suttas who are zealously engaged in the practice of the vehicle to great enlightenment, in order to improve their skilfulness in accumulating the requisites of enlightenment.”...

A Treatise On The Paramis

We now undertake a detailed explanation of the paramis for clansmen following the suttas who are zealously engaged in the practice of the vehicle to great enlightenment (mahabodhiyana), in order to improve their skilfulness in accumulating the requisites for enlightenment.

This is the schedule of the questions:

  1. What are the paramis?
  2. In what sense are they called paramis?
  3. How many are there?
  4. What is their sequence?
  5. What are their characteristics, functions, manifestations, and proximate causes?
  6. What is their condition?
  7. What is their defilement?
  8. What is their cleansing?
  9. What are their opposites?
  10. How are they to be practised?
  11. How are they analyzed?
  12. How are they synthesized?
  13. By what means are they accomplished?
  14. How much time is required to accomplish them?
  15. What benefits do they bring?
  16. What is their fruit?

The answers follow.

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