A fifth-century manual that organizes a path through ethical purification, concentration and wisdom.
Its detailed discussions include meditation subjects, absorptions, analysis of experience and the development of insight.
It synthesizes a commentarial inheritance rather than functioning as one discourse attributed to the Buddha. It belongs to later Theravāda literature, not the Pāli Sutta Piṭaka.
Teachers differ in how closely their practical instructions follow its systematic descriptions. Its influence is extensive, but it is not the entirety of Theravāda practice.
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