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Pali
Etymology
From vi- + passanā or vipassati (verb) + -anā. Cognate with Sanskrit विपश्यना (vipaśyanā). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
vipassanā f
- (Buddhism) vipassana (insight into the true nature of reality)
Declension
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Descendants
Further reading
- Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vipassanā”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead
- Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 580.