The History of Buddhist Thought c12.83

c12.83

The first of these, the four Contemplations, forms the subject of an important sutta,² and it is said to be “ the one way for the purification of beings, for passing beyond grief and lamentation, for the ending of pain and misery, for the attaining of right method, and for the realizing of Nirvāṇa ”. It forms, as will be seen, an important part of the evidence for determining how the Buddhists conceived the nature and organization of the individual.