Front

• Prefaces
  • Copyright notice
  • Buddhist Publication Society edition note
  • Message from his Holiness the Dalai Lama
  • Publisher’s Foreword to Third Edition
  • Publisher’s Foreword to Fourth Edition
  • Translator’s Dedication
  • Translator’s Preface
• Bibliography
  • Printed Editions of the Visuddhimagga
  • Translations of the Visuddhimagga
  • Other works
  • List of abbreviations for texts used
    • Other abbreviations
• Introduction
  • Background and Main Facts
  • The Visuddhimagga and its Author
  • The Vimuttimagga
  • Trends in the Development of Theravāda doctrine
  • The Paramatthamañjūsā
  • Some Main Threads in the Visuddhimagga
  • Concerning the Translation
  • Concluding remarks