상수멸정(想受滅定)의 성취에 관한 일고찰 - 니까야(Nik？ya)를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study focuses on the Cessation of Perception and Feeling (Saññā-vedayita-nirodha) as found in Pāli-Nikāyas. The cessation is described as the highest attainment of Buddhist meditative practice and many suttas elucidate it as the most ‘pleasurable’ state. Moreover, it is not merely a jhānic attainment which can be attained through the practice of samatha but a state to be attained through both samatha and vipassanā practices. Though the cessation achieves the attainments of immaterial jhāna as the compulsory condition, many practitioners are apt to believe the cessation as the experience of nibbāna or nibbāna itself. Hence, this study will be concerned about the problems of interpretation in relation to similarities and differences between the attainment of cessation and nibbāna, presenting also some assumptions that might help solution of these problems.