Saṅkhāradukkha in Living Beings’ Everyday Life: Desanāhāra Analytical Approach in Theravāda Buddhist Perspective · SBAM Repository

Title: Saṅkhāradukkha in Living Beings’ Everyday Life: Desanāhāra Analytical Approach in Theravāda Buddhist Perspective
Author: Ma Kulavatī
Level: PhD
Class: Research Student
Type: Research Paper
Format: PDF
Language: English
Subject: Buddhist Studies
Date: 2024
Place: Mandalay
Publisher: Sitagu Buddhist Academy Mandalay
Rights Holder: Sitagu Buddhist Academy Mandalay
Abstract: The living beings have been facing the saṅkhāradukkha - the formation due to suffering in every day since daily suffering is considered as the major problem of Buddhism. This study aims to highlight the importance of understanding saṅkhāradukkha - the formation due to suffering in order to investigate how saṅkhāradukkha effects on living beings and to examine how to reduce sufferings and to attain liberation from sufferings. This research utilizes the analytical method of Desanāhāra approach on saṅkhāradukkha and its impact on living beings with the emphasis on textual study for the development of insight meditation on saṅkhāra as suffering according to Theravāda Buddhist perspective. This paper reviews relevant literature on the concept of saṅkhāradukkha and its impact on living beings. This research finds definition, mode of saṅkhāradukkha and discuss that the cultivation of mindfulness meditation on saṅkhāradukkha is essential for living beings who want to reduce sufferings. This paper concludes by stressing the significance of understanding saṅkhāradukkha and reducing saṅkhāradukkha in the present and cutting them for a blissful life in future.

Keywords: Saṅkhāradukkha, Formation due to Suffering, Living-being, Every Day Life, Insight meditation, Liberation.

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