Path to Purification in Pali (the language of Buddhism’s earliest canon), was the ancient source for those mimeographed manuals Dan had pored over in Bodh Gaya. Though centuries old, the Visuddhimagga remained the definitive guidebook for meditators in places like Burma and Thailand, that follow the Theravada tradition, and through modern interpretations still offers the fundamental template for insight meditation, the root of what’s popularly known as “mindfulness.”
