Abstract
This thesis has three objectives: to study the dhamma taught in Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhayasutta, to study how insight meditation is taught in the Theravādā Buddhist Scriptures and to study how insight meditation is practiced in Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhayasutta. Clarified and analyzed data are taken from the Theravāda Buddhist scriptures namely, the Tipitaka, Buddhist commentaries, Tīga, academic texts and other related scriptures then composed, explained in details, corrected and verified by Buddhist scholars.
The study found that Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhayasutta was collected and compiled by Dhammasangāhaka Thera (the compiters of the scriptures). It is a verse appeared in the Majjhimanikāya (Collection of Middle-length Discourses). The Buddha teach to the monks while living on Jetawan Vihara, Savathi City and mention the wrong opinion of the monk named Sati who has wrong view about Vinyan.
The study of Vipassana practice in scriptures of Theravada Buddhism found 2 ways of practice that are Samathayanika and Vipassanayanika. Paṭisambhidamak shows four ways to practice, (1) Samathapubbankamabhāvana,
to practice Vipassanabhāvana under the lead of Samathabhāvana
(2) Vipassanapubbankamasamatha, to practice Samathabhāvana under the lead of Vipassanabhāvana (3) Samathavipassana-yukkaṇūṭṭabhāvana, to practice Samathabhāvana along with Vipassanabhāvana and (4) Dhammuṭajjvipassana practitioners contemplate the impermanence of the things.
The study principles in Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhayasutta related to Vipassana found that has the Buddha’s Words said at the end of the sutta that present stages of the practice to be out of suffering then can develop wisdom then gain Cetovimutti and Panññavimutti. This principle is related with Vipassana practice.
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