Vipassanā-ñāṇa

Visuddhimagga

Buddhagosa's Visuddhimagga (Path of purification) (ca. 430 CE), while seemingly influenced by the Vimuttimagga, divides the insight knowledges further into sixteen stages:

1. Namarupa pariccheda ñana - Knowledge of mental and physical states, analytical knowledge of body and mind.
2. Paccaya pariggaha ñana - Discerning Conditionality, knowledge of cause and effect between mental and physical states.
3. Sammasana ñana - Knowledge of the three characteristics of mental and physical processes.
4. Udayabbaya ñana - Knowledge of arising and passing away. Accompanied by possible mental images/lights, rapture, happiness, tranquility and strong mindfulness so that "there is no body-and-mind process in which mindfulness fails to engage."
5. Bhanga ñana - Knowledge of the dissolution of formations, only the "vanishing," or "passing away" is discernible.
6. Bhaya ñana - Knowledge of the fearful nature of mental and physical states. The meditator's mind "is gripped by fear and seems helpless."
7. Adinava ñana - Knowledge of mental and physical states as dukkha. "So he sees, at that time, only suffering, only unsatisfactoriness, only misery."
8. Nibbida ñana - Knowledge of disenchantment/disgust with conditioned states.
9. Muncitukamayata ñana - Knowledge of Desire for Deliverance, the desire to abandon the worldly state (for nibbana) arises.
10. Patisankha ñana - Knowledge of re-investigation of the path. This instills a decision to practice further.
11. Sankharupekha ñana - Knowledge which regards mental and physical states with equanimity.
12. Anuloma ñana - Knowledge in conformity with the Four Noble Truths.
13. Gotrabhu ñana- Knowledge which is void of conditioned formations, "maturity Knowledge".
14. Magga ñana - Knowledge by which defilements are abandoned and are overcome by destruction.
15. Phala ñana - Knowledge which realizes the fruit of the path (nibbana).
16. Paccavekkhana ñana - Knowledge which reviews the defilements still remaining.

Abhidhammattha-sangaha

In the Abhidhammattha-sangaha (11th to 12th century), another widely used Buddhist commentarial text, there are only ten insight knowledges.

1. Comprehension - sammasana
2. Rise and fall - udayabbaya
3. Dissolution - bhaṅga
4. Fear - bhaya
5. Disadvantage - ādīnava
6. Disenchantment - nibbidā
7. Wish for deliverance - muñcitukamyatā
8. Reflection - paṭisaṅkhā
9. Equanimity towards formations - saṅkhārupekkhā
10. Conformity - anuloma

Sarvastivadin Abhidharma texts

The Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣa Śāstra presents 'the process of the direct insight into the four truths' as follows:

Darśana mārga (15 moments)(見道十五心)

1. duḥkhe dharmajñānakṣānti(苦法智忍) - Receptivity to the dharma-knowledge with regard to unsatisfactoriness
2. duḥkhe dharmajñāna(苦法智)- Dharma-knowledge with regard to unsatisfactoriness
3. duḥkhe anvayajñānakṣānti(苦類智忍)- Receptivity to the dharma-knowledge with regard to unsatisfactoriness pertaining to the two upper spheres of existence
4. duḥkhe anvayajñāna(苦類智)- Dharma-knowledge with regard to unsatisfactoriness pertaining to the two upper spheres of existence
5. samudaye dharmajñānakṣānti(集法智忍)- Receptivity to the dharma-knowledge of the origin of unsatisfactoriness
6. samudaye dharmajñāna(集法智)- Dharma-knowledge of the origin of unsatisfactoriness
7. samudaye anvayajñānakṣānti(集類智忍)- Receptivity to the dharma-knowledge of the origin of unsatisfactoriness pertaining to the two upper spheres of existence
8. samudaye anvayajñāna(集類智)- Dharma-knowledge of the origin of unsatisfactoriness pertaining to the two upper spheres of existence
9. duḥkhanirodhe dharmajñānakṣānti(滅法智忍)Receptivity to the dharma-knowledge of the cessation of unsatisfactoriness
10. duḥkhanirodhe dharmajñāna(滅法智) Dharma-knowledge of the cessation of unsatisfactoriness
11. duḥkhanirodhe anvayajñānakṣānti(滅類智忍)Receptivity to the dharma-knowledge of the cessation of pertaining to the two upper spheres of existence unsatisfactoriness
12. duḥkhanirodhe anvayajñāna(滅類智)dharma-knowledge of the cessation of unsatisfactoriness pertaining to the two upper spheres of existence
13. duḥkhapratipakṣamārge dharmajñānakṣānti(道法智忍)- Receptivity dharma-knowledge of the path for the ending of unsatisfactoriness
14. duḥkhapratipakṣamārge dharmajñāna(道法智)- Dharma-knowledge of the path for the ending of unsatisfactoriness
15. duḥkhapratipakṣamārge anvayajñānakṣānti(道類智忍)- Receptivity dharma-knowledge of the path for the ending of unsatisfactoriness pertaining to the two upper spheres of existence

Bhāvanā-mārga (The 16th moment)(修道第十六心)

1. duḥkhapratipakṣamārge anvayajñāna(道類智) - Dharma-knowledge of the path for the ending of unsatisfactoriness pertaining to the two upper spheres of existence

Abhidharma-kosa

The Abhidharma-kosa of Vasubandhu (4th or 5th century CE) lists the knowledges attained on the path of liberation according to the Sarvastivadin abhidharma:

1. Saṃvṛti-jñāna (世俗智): worldly, conventional knowledge ('bears on all')
2. Dharma-jñāna (法智): a knowledge of dharmas ("has for its object, the suffering etc. of Kamadhatu")
3. Anvaya-jñāna (類智): inferential knowledge ("bears on suffering, etc. of the higher spheres")
4. Duḥkha-jñāna (苦智): the knowledge of Suffering (1st Noble Truth)
5. samudaya-jñāna (集智): the knowledge of Origin (2nd Noble Truth)
6. nirodha-jñāna (滅智): the knowledge of Cessation or Extinction (3rd Noble Truth)
7. mārga-jñāna (道智): the knowledge of the Path (4th Noble Truth)
8. para-mano-jñāna (or para-citta- jñāna) (他心智): the knowledge of the mind of another (has for its sphere an independent object" one mental factor of another‘s mind)
9. kṣaya-jñāna (盡智): the Knowledge of Destruction ("with regard to the truths, the certitude that they are known, abandoned, etc.")
10. anutpāda-jñāna (無生智): the Knowledge of Non-Arising ("is the certitude that they [the truths] are no longer to be known, to be abandoned, etc.")