パーリ三蔵における入出息念の系譜

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Ānāpānasati is a Buddhist practice aimed at obtaining various results by focusing awareness on one’s breath. It is currently attracting attention as Mindfulness. Previous research has often discussed this practice in relation to the cattaro satipaṭṭhānā (sometimes rendered “four foundations of mindfulness”), and the Ānāpānasatisutta has been regarded as the representative exponent of ānāpānasati. However, a comprehensive investigation of the Pāli canon shows that each Nikāya maintains a different system of ānāpānasati. Subsequently, taking the Paṭisambhidāmagga, an early Abhidhamma text, into consideration, we see that the idea of ānāpānasati as cattaro satipaṭṭhānā was inherited as a specific type that developed into various practices, and a unique theory was added to it. Thus, the starting point of ānāpānasati in the Theravāda originates in the Pāli canon.