kalāpa
Pāḷi; √ kala + apa
gender: masculine
type: noun
alt. sp.: kalapa, kalaapa
engl.: unit
skr.:
khmer: កលាប
thai: kalāpa
sinhal.: kalāpa
burm.: kalāpa
appears: later texts like Visuddhi Magga
➥ kalāpa 'group', 'unit' (kappa = kalpa: (Skr)):1) 1. 'corporeal unit' (see rūpa-kalāpa); 2. It has the meaning of 'group of existence' (khandha) in kalāpasammasana (see sammasana), i.e. 'comprehension by groups', which is the application of 'methodical (or inductive) insight' (ñāya-vipassanā) to the comprehension of the 5 aggregates (khandha) as impermanent, painful and not-self. It is a process of methodical summarization, or generalization, from one's own meditative experience that is applied to each of the 5 aggregates, viewed as past, present, future, as internal and external, etc. In Visuddhi Magga XX, where the 'comprehension by groups' is treated in detail, it is said to constitute 'the beginning of insight' as it leads to the 'knowledge of rise and fall', being the first of the 8 insightknowledges (see visuddhi VI). It is necessary for accomplishing the 5th purification (see visuddhi V; Visuddhi Magga XX, 2, 6ff.).
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