ABSTRACT

This thesis  is  of three aims, namely :- 1) to study the Tranquillity Meditation in Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga, 2) to study the similarity and the difference  of the Tranquillity Meditation in Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga and 3) to analytically study of  the Tranquillity Meditation  as the base of Insight Meditation.

This thesis is  a documentary research.  It is the  analytically study  of the Tranquillity Meditation  as the adjective of the Insight Meditation in two points namely :- 1) the usage of the contemplation as the objective  of the Insight Meditation,  2) the usage of the temperament of the Tranquility Meditation as the temperament of the Insight Meditation, and then  the  Tranquility Meditation is brought from  Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga to be the approach to the practices.

The result of  research, it is found that the Tranquillity Meditation in Visuddhimagga is divided into seven groups : ten meditational devices, ten kinds of foulness, ten recollections, four holy abidings, four formless spheres, the consciousness of food impurity and the determination of four elements. On the other hand, in Vimuttimagga the Tranquillity Meditation is divided into thirty-eight objects :- ten meditational devices, ten kinds of foulness, ten recollections, four unbounded states, the determination of four elements, the consciousness of food impurity, the sphere of nothingness and the realm of neither perception nor non-perception.

The contents, the practices and the result from the practices in both scriptures are not different. But the practice of some object in both is different. The issue can be concluded that when a person practices the Tranquility Meditation, he or she will obtain a profits namely :- understanding the reality of life, being of mindfulness, heedfulness, non-attachment, and awareness in living and it will be based on the Insight Meditation. That is, when a person practices the Tranquillity Meditation well, he can obtain Nibbãna by mean of that meditation which  will be the base of Insight Meditation.

When the analytically study of the Tranquillity Meditation as the base of the Insight Meditation, it will be found that when a person practices the Tranquility Meditation until the mind is concentrated by momentary concentration, access concetration and attainment concentration, the meditative absorption  will  arise,  and it will be used as the base for development of Insight Meditation, or the Tranquility Meditation will be used  as the objective of  the Insight Meditation. By this way,  one can obtain the Nibbãna.