Kayaviratigatha, Kāyaviratigāthā: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA beautiful Pali poem, of two hundred and seventy four verses, on the subjection of sensuality, written in Ceylon, probably in the seventeenth century. A tika on the poem is ascribed to a monk of Pakudhanagara (Pegu). (Gv.65, 75; Bode, op. cit., 44, n.7).
The work is in two sections, the first describing the formation of the body, its foulness and its worthlessness, and the second dealing with the mind and the advantages of developing the same regardless of the body. There is a Sinhalese translation probably by the author himself. P.L.C.285.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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