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    This document provides information about a 6th century Chinese translation of "The Path of Freedom" (Vimuttimagga), originally written in Pali by the famous Buddhist monk Arahant Upatissa in the 1st century AD. It summarizes that the Vimuttimagga guides the reader in Buddhist practices to achieve liberation, akin to the Visuddhimagga, but with a greater sense of urgency. It also notes that this English translation makes the Vimuttimagga generally accessible for the first time.

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    This document provides information about a 6th century Chinese translation of "The Path of Freedom" (Vimuttimagga), originally written in Pali by the famous Buddhist monk Arahant Upatissa in the 1st century AD. It summarizes that the Vimuttimagga guides the reader in Buddhist practices to achieve liberation, akin to the Visuddhimagga, but with a greater sense of urgency. It also notes that this English translation makes the Vimuttimagga generally accessible for the first time.

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    This document provides information about a 6th century Chinese translation of "The Path of Freedom" (Vimuttimagga), originally written in Pali by the famous Buddhist monk Arahant Upatissa in the 1st century AD. It summarizes that the Vimuttimagga guides the reader in Buddhist practices to achieve liberation, akin to the Visuddhimagga, but with a greater sense of urgency. It also notes that this English translation makes the Vimuttimagga generally accessible for the first time.

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    The passage provides an introduction to the Vimuttimagga, describing it as a Buddhist text that was translated from Pali to Chinese and focuses on urging readers to practice the Buddha's teachings.

    The Vimuttimagga is a Buddhist text written by the Arahant Upatissa that was originally in Pali but has survived through a 6th century Chinese translation. It provides an exposition of the Buddha's teachings.

    The Vimuttimagga gives a more lively, urgent sense of the need to practice compared to the later Visuddhimagga, though they cover similar topics. The Vimuttimagga may have inspired the Visuddhimagga.

    THE PATH OF FREEDOM

    (Vimuttimagga)
    of
    ARAHANT UPATISSA
    Translated from the Chinese
    by
    Rev. N. R. M. EHARA

    SOMA THERA

    KHEMINDA THERA

    The Vimuttimagga is probably the


    work of a famous Buddhist monk of
    Ceylon living in the first century after
    Christ. The original text in the Pali no
    longer exists; but the work has survived
    in a sixth century Chinese translation;
    and it is from this that the present
    translation has been made.
    In contrast to the somewhat aca-
    demic approach of the later and better
    known V isuddhimagga.Xht Vimuttimagga
    gives the impression of having been
    written by one whose heart was in his
    work. Though it covers approximately
    the same ground as the Visuddhimagga
    it is marked by a lively sense of urgency
    for which one looks in vain in the later
    work. It is above all a call to practise.
    This work, which rivals the Visuddhi-
    magga in historical importance (it
    almost certainly inspired the Visuddhi-
    magga) and in many ways surpasses it
    as an exposition of the Buddha's teach-
    ing, has now for the first time been made
    generally accessible in an English trans-
    lation.
    THE PATH OF FREEDOM—VIMUTTIMAGGA

    ^- Ixyim ike compliments

    cKkeminda (Oktera
    Vajirarama,
    Colombo 5,
    CEYLON.
    Forwarded by
    BUDDHIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY
    P. O. BOX 661
    1
    -- K-AMPYV
    KANDY . CEYLON.
    Amupubbena medhavi thokathokarh khane khane
    kammaro rajatass' eva niddhame malam attano.
    Dh. 239.

    Gradually should the perspicacious one,


    Momentarily, little by little, expel
    His own dross, as would the smith
    That which is in silver.*

    1
    Soma Thera's Translation.
    The Sinhalese translation of this work is being made by
    the Venerable Madihe Pannasllia Maha Nayaka Thera
    of Vajirarama, Colombo, Ceylon.
    THE PATH
    OF

    FREEDOM
    BY

    THE ARAHANT UPATISSA


    Translated into Chinese {Gedatsu Do Ron)
    by
    Tipitaka Sanghapala of Funan

    Translated from the Chinese


    by
    The Rev. N. R. M. Ehara, Soma Thera and Kheminda Thera

    Published by
    Dr. D. Roland D. Weerasuria,
    Balcombe House, Balcombe Place,
    Colombo 8, Ceylon.
    1961
    PRINTED AT*.
    THE SAMAN PRESS,
    MAHARAGAMA,
    CEYLON

    Sole Distributors: M. D. Gunasena & Co., Ltd. — Colombo, Ceylon


    DEDICATED
    to
    the memory of
    The Venerable Maha Nayaka Thera,
    Paelaene Siri Vajiranana of Vajirarama,
    Colombo, Ceylon
    and

    The Venerable Myin Mu Myo Sayadaw,


    Pagdava Maha Thera of the Satipatthana Monastery,
    Moubnein, Burma.

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