The Path Of Freedom Of Arahant Upatissa
Translated from 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 academic approach of the later and better known Visuddhimagga.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 Visuddhimagga in historical importance (it almost certainly inspired the Visuddhimagga) and in many ways surpasses it
as an exposition of the Buddha’s teaching, has now for the first time been made generally accessible in an English translation.
The Path of Freedom
