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Maitri (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on maitri (loving-kindness), consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on maitri, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for its account of the Karaniya Metta Sutta (Sn 1.8) and its mother-and-only-child simile, the Visuddhimagga's role as the practical instruction manual still used today, and metta's pre-Buddhist Vedic Sanskrit roots as maitri, maitra and mitra.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitr%C4%AB
Source Typereference
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