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Simple Dictionary Definition

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dìng
    ding4
ting
 jou / jo
    じょう

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Samadhi
to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc); to congeal; to coagulate; (literary) definitely
(1) (See 案の定・あんのじょう) certainty; reality; actuality; (prefix noun) (2) (See 定宿) regular; permanent; (3) {Buddh} (See 三昧・さんまい・1,禅定・ぜんじょう・1) samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); (given name) Yasushi
To fix, settle. samādhi. 'Composing the mind'; 'intent contemplation'; 'perfect absorption of thought into the one object of meditation.' M. W. Abstract meditation, the mind fixed in one direction, or field. (1) 散定 scattered or general meditation (in the world of desire). (2) 禪定 abstract meditation (in the realms of form and beyond form). It is also one of the five attributes of the dharmakāya 法身, i. e. an internal state of imperturbability or tranquility, exempt from all external sensations, 超受陰; cf. 三摩提.


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shàn
    shan4
shan
 yuzuri
    ゆずり

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Zen / Chan / Meditation
to abdicate
(out-dated kanji) (1) (Buddhist term) dhyana (profound meditation); (2) (abbreviation) Zen (Buddhism); (surname) Yuzuri
To level a place for an altar, to sacrifice to the hills and fountains; to abdicate. Adopted by Buddhists for dhyāna, 禪 or 禪那, i.e. meditation, abstraction, trance. dhyāna is 'meditation, thought, reflection, especially profound and abstract religious contemplation'. M.W. It was intp. as 'getting rid of evil', etc., later as 靜慮 quiet meditation. It is a form of 定, but that word is more closely allied with samādhi, cf. 禪定. The term also connotes Buddhism and Buddhist things in general, but has special application to the 禪宗 q.v. It is one of the six pāramitās, cf. 波. There are numerous methods and subjects of meditation. The eighteen brahmalokas are divided into four dhyāna regions 'corresponding to certain frames of mind where individuals might be reborn in strict accordance with their spiritual state'. The first three are the first dhyāna, the second three the second dhyāna, the third three the third dhyāna, and the remaining nine the fourth dhyāna. See Eitel. According to Childers' Pali Dictionary, 'The four jhānas are four stages of mystic meditation, whereby the believer's mind is purged from all earthly emotions, and detached as it were from his body, which remains plunged in a profound trance.' Seated cross-legged, the practiser 'concentrates his mind upon a single thought. Gradually his soul becomes filled with a supernatural ecstasy and serenity', his mind still reasoning: this is the first jhāna. Concentrating his mind on the same subject, he frees it from reasoning, the ecstasy and serenity remaining, which is the second jhāna. Then he divests himself of ecstasy, reaching the third stage of serenity. Lastly, in the fourth stage the mind becomes indifferent to all emotions, being exalted above them and purified. There are differences in the Mahāyāna methods, but similarity of aim.

三昧

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sān mèi
    san1 mei4
san mei
 sanmai; zanmai
    さんまい; ざんまい

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Samadhi
Samadhi (Buddhist term)
(1) (さんまい only) {Buddh} samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation) (san:); (suffix noun) (2) (usu. ざんまい) being immersed in; being absorbed in; indulging in; doing to one's heart's content; (suffix noun) (3) (usu. ざんまい) prone to; apt to; (given name) Sanmai
(三昧地) Samādhi, "putting together, composing the mind, intent contemplation, perfect absorption, union of the meditator with the object of meditation." (M. W.) Also 三摩地 (三摩提, 三摩帝, 三摩底). Interpreted by 定 or 正定, the mind fixed and undisturbed; by 正受 correct sensation of the object contemplated; by 調直定 ordering and fixing the mind; by 正心行處 the condition when the motions of the mind are steadied and harmonized with the object; by 息慮凝心 the cessation of distraction and the fixation of the mind; by 等持 the mind held in equilibrium; by 奢摩他, i.e. 止息 to stay the breathing. It is described as concentration of the mind (upon an object). The aim is 解脫, mukti, deliverance from all the trammels of life, the bondage of the passions and reincarnations. It may pass from abstraction to ecstasy, or rapture, or trance. Dhyāna 定 represents a simpler form of contemplation; samāpatti 三摩鉢底 a stage further advanced; and samādhi the highest stage of the Buddhist equivalent for Yoga, though Yoga is considered by some as a Buddhist development differing from samādhi. The 翻譯名義 says: 思專 when the mind has been concentrated, then 志一不分 the will is undivided; when 想寂 active thought has been put to rest, then 氣虛神朗 the material becomes etherealized and the spirit liberated, on which 智 knowledge, or the power to know, has free course, and there is no mystery into which it cannot probe. Cf. 智度論 5, 20, 23, 28; 止觀 2; 大乘義章 2, 9, 1 3, 20, etc. There are numerous kinds and degrees of samādhi.

冥想

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míng xiǎng
    ming2 xiang3
ming hsiang
 meisō
    めいそう

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Meditation
to meditate; meditation
(noun/participle) meditation; contemplation
meditation

反省

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fǎn xǐng
    fan3 xing3
fan hsing
 hansei / hanse
    はんせい

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Reflect
to reflect upon oneself; to examine one's conscience; to question oneself; to search one's soul
(noun, transitive verb) (1) reflection; reconsideration; introspection; meditation; contemplation; (noun, transitive verb) (2) regret; repentance; remorse; being sorry

坐禪


坐禅

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zuò chán
    zuo4 chan2
tso ch`an
    tso chan
 zazen

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Sit in Meditation
to sit in meditation; to meditate
To sit in dhyāna, i.e. abstract meditation, fixed abstraction, contemplation; its introduction to China is attributed to Bodhidharma (though it came earlier), and its extension to Tiantai.

黙想

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 mokusou / mokuso
    もくそう

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Mokuso - Silent Meditation
(noun, transitive verb) meditation; silent contemplation

瞑想

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míng xiǎng
    ming2 xiang3
ming hsiang
 meisō
    めいそう
to muse; to think deeply; contemplation; meditation
(noun/participle) meditation; contemplation
to meditate

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zhǐ
    zhi3
chih
 tomeru
    とめる
to stop; to prohibit; until; only
(given name) Tomeru
To stop, halt, cease; one of the seven definitions of 禪定 dhyāna described as 奢摩他 śamatha or 三摩地 samādhi; it is defined as 靜息動心 silencing, or putting to rest the active mind, or auto-hypnosis; also 心定止於一處 the mind centred, lit. the mind steadily fixed on one place, or in one position. It differs from 觀 which observes, examines, sifts evidence; 止 has to do with 拂妄 getting rid of distraction for moral ends; it is abstraction, rather than contemplation; see 止觀 In practice there are three methods of attaining such abstraction: (a) by fixing the mind on the nose, navel, etc.; (b) by stopping every thought as it arises; (c) by dwelling on the thought that nothing exists of itself, but from a preceding cause.


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guàn
    guan4
kuan
 kan
Taoist monastery; palace gate watchtower; platform
vipaśyanā; vidarśanā. To look into, study, examine, contemplate; contemplation, insight; a study, a Taoist monastery; to consider illusion and discern illusion, or discern the seeming from the real; to contemplate and mentally enter into truth. 覺 is defined as awakening, or awareness, 觀 as examination or study. It is also an old tr. of the word Yoga; and cf. 禪 17. Guan is especially a doctrine of the Tiantai school as shown in the 止觀 q.v.

一觀


一观

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yī guān
    yi1 guan1
i kuan
 ichikan
one contemplation

三界

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sān jiè
    san1 jie4
san chieh
 sangai
    さんがい
(1) {Buddh} (See 欲界,色界,無色界) the three realms of existence; (2) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 三千大千世界) the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened; (3) {Buddh} (See 三世・さんぜ・1) past, present and future existences; (suffix) (4) far-off ...; distant ...; (surname) Mikai
Trailokya or Triloka; the three realms; also 三有. It is the Buddhist metaphysical equivalent for the Brahmanic cosmological bhuvanatraya, or triple world of bhūr, bhuvaḥ, and svar, earth, atmosphere, and heaven. The Buddhist three are 欲, 色, and 無色界, i.e. world of sensuous desire, form, and formless world of pure spirit. (a) 欲界 Kāmadhātu is the realm of sensuous desire, of 婬 and 食 sex and food; it includes the six heavens of desire, the human world, and the hells. (b) 色界 Rūpadhātu is the realm of form, meaning 質礙 that which is substantial and resistant: it is above the lust-world and contains (so to speak) bodies, palaces, things, all mystic and wonderful一a semi-material conception like that in Revelation; it is represented in the 四禪天, or Brahmalokas. (c) 無色界 Arūpadhātu, or ārūpyadhātu, is the formless realm of pure spirit, where there are no bodies, places, things, at any rate none to which human terms would apply, but where the mind dwells in mystic contemplation; its extent is indefinable, but it is, conceived of in four stages, i,e. 四空處 the four "empty" regions, or regions of space in the immaterial world, which are 四無色 the four "formless" realms, or realms beyond form; being above the realm of form, their bounds cannot be defined. v. 倶舍論世間品.

中觀


中观

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zhōng guān
    zhong1 guan1
chung kuan
 chū gan
Meditation on the Mean, one of the 三觀; also meditation on the absolute which unites all opposites. There are various forms of such meditation, that of the 法相宗, the 三論宗, the 天台宗. v. 中論.

事観

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 jikan
    じかん
{Buddh} (See 理觀) contemplation of phenomena

事觀


事观

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shì guān
    shi4 guan1
shih kuan
 jikan
contemplation of phenomena

二善

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èr shàn
    er4 shan4
erh shan
 futayoshi
    ふたよし
(surname) Futayoshi
The two good things, 定善 the good character that arises from meditation or contemplation mdash especially of the Pure Land; 散善 the good character attainable when, though not in meditation, one controls oneself in thought, word, and deed;. Also 未生善 the good character not yet evolved; and 已生善 the good character already evolved;. Also 事理善 goodness in theory and practice.

互發


互发

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hù fā
    hu4 fa1
hu fa
 go hotsu
mutual arising (of the objects of contemplation)

假觀


假观

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jiǎ guān
    jia3 guan1
chia kuan
 kekan
The meditation on relative truth, or phenomenal and therefore illusory existence, in comparison with 空 and 中 q. v.

六度

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liù dù
    liu4 du4
liu tu
 rokudo
    ろくど
(surname) Rokudo
The six things that ferry one beyond the sea of mortality to nirvana, i. e. the six pāramitās 波羅蜜 (波羅蜜多): (1) 布施 dāna, charity, or giving, including the bestowing of the truth on others; (2) 持戒 śīla, keeping the command rents; (3) 忍辱 kṣānti, patience under insult; (4) 精進 vīrya, zeal and progress; (5) 闡定 dhyāna, meditation or contemplation; (6) 智慧 prajñā; wisdom, the power to discern reality or truth. It is the last that carries across the saṃsāra (sea of incarnate life) to the shores of nirvana. The opposites of these virtues are meanness, wickedness, anger, sloth, a distracted mind, and ignorance. The 唯識論 adds four other pāramitās: (7) 方便 upāya, the use of appropriate means; (8) 願 praṇidhāna, pious vows; (9) 力 bala, power of fulfillment; (10) 智 jñāna knowledge.

圓觀


圆观

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yuán guān
    yuan2 guan1
yüan kuan
 enkan
    えんかん
(personal name) Enkan
perfect contemplation

坐證


坐证

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zuò zhèng
    zuo4 zheng4
tso cheng
 zashō
Another term for dhyāna contemplation.

坐關


坐关

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zuò guān
    zuo4 guan1
tso kuan
(Buddhism) to sit in contemplation

大乘

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dà shèng
    da4 sheng4
ta sheng
 oonori
    おおのり
Mahayana, the Great Vehicle; Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond; also pr. [Da4 cheng2]
(surname) Oonori
Mahāyāna; also called 上乘; 妙乘; 勝乘; 無上乘; 無上上乘; 不惡乘; 無等乘, 無等等乘; 摩訶衍 The great yāna, wain, or conveyance, or the greater vehicle in comparison with the 小乘 Hīnayāna. It indicates universalism, or Salvation for all, for all are Buddha and will attain bodhi. It is the form of Buddhism prevalent in Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan, and in other places in the Far East. It is also called Northern Buddhism. It is interpreted as 大教 the greater teaching as compared with 小教 the smaller, or inferior. Hīnayāna, which is undoubtedly nearer to the original teaching of the Buddha, is unfairly described as an endeavour to seek nirvana through an ash-covered body, an extinguished intellect, and solitariness; its followers are sravakas and pratyekabuddhas (i.e. those who are striving for their own deliverance through ascetic works). Mahāyāna, on the other hand, is described as seeking to find and extend all knowledge, and, in certain schools, to lead all to Buddhahood. It has a conception of an Eternal Buddha, or Buddhahood as Eternal (Adi-Buddha), but its especial doctrines are, inter alia, (a) the bodhisattvas 菩薩 , i.e. beings who deny themselves final Nirvana until, according to their vows, they have first saved all the living; (b) salvation by faith in, or invocation of the Buddhas or bodhisattvas; (c) Paradise as a nirvana of bliss in the company of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, saints, and believers. Hīnayāna is sometimes described as 自利 self-benefiting, and Mahāyāna as 自利利他 self-benefit for the benefit of others, unlimited altruism and pity being the theory of Mahāyāna. There is a further division into one-yana and three-yanas: the trīyāna may be śrāvaka, pratyeka-buddha, and bodhisattva, represented by a goat, deer, or bullock cart; the one-yāna is that represented by the Lotus School as the one doctrine of the Buddha, which had been variously taught by him according to the capacity of his hearers, v. 方便. Though Mahāyāna tendencies are seen in later forms of the older Buddhism, the foundation of Mahāyāna has been attributed to Nāgārjuna 龍樹. "The characteristics of this system are an excess of transcendental speculation tending to abstract nihilism, and the substitution of fanciful degrees of meditation and contemplation (v. Samādhi and Dhyāna) in place of the practical asceticism of the Hīnayāna school."[Eitel 68-9.] Two of its foundation books are the 起信論and the 妙法蓮華經 but a larnge numberof Mahāyāna sutras are ascribed to the Buddha。.

妙觀


妙观

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miào guān
    miao4 guan1
miao kuan
 myōkan
The wonderful system of the three Tiantai meditations; v. 三諦, 三觀.

定善

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dìng shàn
    ding4 shan4
ting shan
 sadayoshi
    さだよし
(male given name) Sadayoshi
the good character that arises from meditation or contemplation

寂定

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jí dìng
    ji2 ding4
chi ting
 jakujō
Tranquil concentration; contemplation in which disturbing illusion is eliminated.

寂念

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jí niàn
    ji2 nian4
chi nien
 jaku nen
Calm thoughts; to calm the mind; contemplation.

幽愁

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 yuushuu / yushu
    ゆうしゅう
deep contemplation; melancholy; gloom

心觀


心观

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xīn guān
    xin1 guan1
hsin kuan
 shinkan
Contemplation of the mind and its thoughts, v. 一心三觀.

思惟

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sī wéi
    si1 wei2
ssu wei
 shii; shiyui / shi; shiyui
    しい; しゆい
variant of 思維|思维[si1 wei2]
(n,vs,vt,vi) (1) (esp. しい) thought; thinking; contemplation; consideration; (n,vs,vt,vi) (2) {Buddh} (esp. しゆい) using wisdom to get to the bottom of things; focusing one's mind; deep contemplation; concentrated thought; deliberating; pondering; reflecting; (female given name) Shiyui
To consider or reflect on an object with discrimination; thought, reflection.

思慧

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sī huì
    si1 hui4
ssu hui
 shie
The wisdom attained by meditating (on the principles and doctrines of Buddhism).

悲觀


悲观

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bēi guān
    bei1 guan1
pei kuan
 hikan
pessimistic
contemplation on pity

惡覺


恶觉

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è jué
    e4 jue2
o chüeh
 akukaku
Contemplation or thought contrary to Buddhist principles.

惡觀


恶观

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è guān
    e4 guan1
o kuan
 aku kan
contemplation of evil

慈觀


慈观

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cí guān
    ci2 guan1
tz`u kuan
    tzu kuan
 jikan
contemplation on compassion

斷想


断想

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duàn xiǎng
    duan4 xiang3
tuan hsiang
 dan sō
brief commentary
The contemplation of severing afflictions

明靜


明静

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míng jìng
    ming2 jing4
ming ching
 myōjō
luminous quiescence (of cessation-and contemplation)

有念

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 unen
    うねん
{Buddh} (See 無念・2) contemplation on concrete, tangible things

死想

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sǐ xiǎng
    si3 xiang3
ssu hsiang
 shi sō
the contemplation of death

氣分


气分

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qì fēn
    qi4 fen1
ch`i fen
    chi fen
 kipun
disposition [of cessation-and-contemplation]

沈思

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 chinshi
    ちんし
(n,vs,vt,vi) contemplation; meditation

沈潜

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 chinsen
    ちんせん
(n,vs,vi) sinking into deep thought; sinking to the depths; contemplation

沉思

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chén sī
    chen2 si1
ch`en ssu
    chen ssu
to contemplate; to ponder; contemplation; meditation

沉陷

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chén xiàn
    chen2 xian4
ch`en hsien
    chen hsien
to sink; to cave in; (of a building etc) to subside; (fig.) to get lost (in contemplation, daydreams etc)

法相

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fǎ xiàng
    fa3 xiang4
fa hsiang
 hossou / hosso
    ほっそう
(1) {Buddh} (See 法性) dharmalaksana (dharma characteristics, the specific characteristics of all manifest phenomena); (2) (abbreviation) (See 法相宗) Hosso sect of Buddhism
The aspects of characteristics of things-all things are of monad nature but differ in form. A name of the 法相宗 Faxiang or Dharmalakṣaṇa sect (Jap. Hossō), called also 慈恩宗 Cien sect from the Tang temple, in which lived 窺基 Kuiji, known also as 慈恩. It "aims at discovering the ultimate entity of cosmic existence n contemplation, through investigation into the specific characteristics (the marks or criteria) of all existence, and through the realization of the fundamental nature of the soul in mystic illumination". "An inexhaustible number" of "seeds" are "stored up in the Ālaya-soul; they manifest themselves in innumerable varieties of existence, both physical and mental". "Though there are infinite varieties. . . they all participate in the prime nature of the ālaya." Anesaki. The Faxiang School is one of the "eight schools", and was established in China on the return of Xuanzang, consequent on his translation of the Yogācārya works. Its aim is to understand the principle underlying the 萬法性相 or nature and characteristics of all things. Its foundation works are the 解深密經, the 唯識論, and the 瑜伽論. It is one of the Mahāyāna realistic schools, opposed by the idealistic schools, e.g. the 三論 school; yet it was a "combination of realism and idealism, and its religion a profoundly mystic one". Anesaki.

淨觀


淨观

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jìng guān
    jing4 guan1
ching kuan
 jōkan
Pure contemplation, such as the sixteen mentioned in the 無量壽經.

滅觀


灭观

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miè guān
    mie4 guan1
mieh kuan
 mekkan
The contemplation of extinction: the destruction of ignorance is followed by the annihilation of karma, of birth, old age, and death.

火院

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huǒ yuàn
    huo3 yuan4
huo yüan
 kain
The 'fire-court', a kind of contemplation, in which the devotee sees himself encircled by fire after circumambulating three times to the right while making the fire-sign. Also 火界; 金剛炎.

理觀


理观

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lǐ guān
    li3 guan1
li kuan
 rikan
    りかん
{Buddh} (See 事観) contemplation of principle
The concept of absolute truth; the concentration of the mind upon reality.

盡想


尽想

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jìn xiǎng
    jin4 xiang3
chin hsiang
 jin sō
the contemplation of exhausting [karmic bonds]

省思

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 seishi / seshi
    せいし
(noun/participle) (rare) reflection; reexamination; contemplation; (personal name) Seiji

眞觀


眞观

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zhēn guān
    zhen1 guan1
chen kuan
 shinkan
correct contemplation

禪思


禅思

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chán sī
    chan2 si1
ch`an ssu
    chan ssu
 zenshi
Meditation thoughts; the mystic trance.

禪觀


禅观

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chán guān
    chan2 guan1
ch`an kuan
    chan kuan
 zenkan
dhyāna-contemplation.

禪那


禅那

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chán nà
    chan2 na4
ch`an na
    chan na
 zenna
dhyāna, abstract contemplation. There are four degrees through which the mind frees itself from all subjective and objective hindrances and reaches a state of absolute indifference and annihilation of thought, perception, and will; v. 禪. The River Jumna.

等觀


等观

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děng guān
    deng3 guan1
teng kuan
 tōkan
The beholding of all things as equal, e.g. as 空 unreal, or immaterial; or of all beings without distinction, as one beholds one's child i.e. without respect of persons.

緣覺


缘觉

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yuán jué
    yuan2 jue2
yüan chüeh
 engaku
pratyekabuddha 辟支佛; 辟支迦佛; 鉢剌翳伽陀 (鉢剌翳伽佛陀) In the early translations it was rendered 緣覺, i.e. enlightened through reasoning on the riddle of life, especially as defined in the twelve nidānas. Later it was rendered 獨覺 or individual enlightenment, i.e. one who lives apart from others and attains enlightenment alone, or for himself, in contrast with the altruism of the bodhisattva principle. The term pratyekabuddha is not limited to Buddhists, but is also general for recluses pondering alone over the meaning of life, an illustration being the rhinoceros, which lives in isolation. The non-Buddhist enlightenment is illusion, e.g. from observing the 'flying flowers and falling leaves'; the Buddhist enlightenment arises from pondering over the twelve nidānas. As a degree of saintship it is undefined by early Buddhism, receiving its definition at a later period.

苦想

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kǔ xiǎng
    ku3 xiang3
k`u hsiang
    ku hsiang
 kusō
the contemplation of suffering

苦觀


苦观

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kǔ guān
    ku3 guan1
k`u kuan
    ku kuan
 kukan
contemplation of suffering

観念

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 kannen
    かんねん
(1) idea; notion; concept; conception; (2) sense (e.g. of duty); (noun, transitive verb) (3) resignation (to one's fate); acceptance; preparedness; (4) {Buddh} observation and contemplation; meditation

観想

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 kansou / kanso
    かんそう
(noun, transitive verb) meditation; contemplation

観法

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 kanpou; kanbou / kanpo; kanbo
    かんぽう; かんぼう
{Buddh} method of contemplation

観照

see styles
 kanshou / kansho
    かんしょう
(noun, transitive verb) contemplation; meditation; (objective) observation

觀品


观品

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guān pǐn
    guan1 pin3
kuan p`in
    kuan pin
 kanpon
having the properties of contemplation

觀心


观心

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guān xīn
    guan1 xin1
kuan hsin
 kan shin
Contemplation of the mind, mental contemplation, contemplation of all things as mind.

觀想


观想

see styles
guān xiǎng
    guan1 xiang3
kuan hsiang
 kansō
to visualize (Buddhist practice)
To meditate and think.

觀智


观智

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guān zhì
    guan1 zhi4
kuan chih
 kanchi
Wisdom obtained from contemplation.

觀法


观法

see styles
guān fǎ
    guan1 fa3
kuan fa
 kanbō
Methods of contemplation, or obtaining of insight into truth, cf. 六觀法 and 止觀.

觀照


观照

see styles
guān zhào
    guan1 zhao4
kuan chao
 kanshō
To be enlightened (or enlighten) as the result of insight, or intelligent contemplation.

觀相


观相

see styles
guān xiàng
    guan1 xiang4
kuan hsiang
 kansō
contemplation of marks

觀禪


观禅

see styles
guān chán
    guan1 chan2
kuan ch`an
    kuan chan
 kanzen
Contemplation and meditation, to sit in abstract trance.

觀行


观行

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guān xíng
    guan1 xing2
kuan hsing
 kangyou / kangyo
    かんぎょう
(surname) Kangyou
Contemplation and (accordant) action; method of contemplating.

觀道


观道

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guān dào
    guan1 dao4
kuan tao
 kandō
Contemplation, meditation, insight.

觀達


观达

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guān dá
    guan1 da2
kuan ta
 kandatsu
To penetrate to reality through contemplation.

觀門


观门

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guān mén
    guan1 men2
kuan men
 kanmon
Contemplation or meditation as one of the two methods of entry into truth, i.e. instruction and meditation; also one of the 六妙門.

道觀


道观

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dào guàn
    dao4 guan4
tao kuan
 dōkan
Daoist temple
Religious practice (or external influence) and internal vision.

阿含

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ā hán
    a1 han2
a han
 agon
āgama, 阿含暮; 阿鋡; 阿伽摩 (or 阿笈摩), the āgamas, a collection of doctrines, general name for the Hīnayāna scriptures: tr. 法歸 the home or collecting-place of the Law or Truth; 無比法 peerless Law; or 趣無 ne plus ultra, ultimate, absolute truth. The 四阿含經 or Four Āgamas are (1) 長阿含 Dīrghāgama, 'Long' treatises on cosmogony. (2) Madhyamāgama, 中阿含, 'middle' treatises on metaphysics. (3) Saṃyuktāgama, 雜阿含 'miscellaneous' treatises on abstract contemplation. (4) Ekottarāgama 增一阿含 'numerical' treatises, subjects treated numerically. There is also a division of five āgamas.

雙流


双流

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shuāng liú
    shuang1 liu2
shuang liu
 sōru
Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1], Sichuan; Chengdu's main airport
The twin streams of teaching and mystic contemplation.

靜修


静修

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jìng xiū
    jing4 xiu1
ching hsiu
contemplation; meditation

頂巢


顶巢

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dǐng cháo
    ding3 chao2
ting ch`ao
    ting chao
Contemplation so profound that a bird may build its nest on the individual's head.

默想

see styles
mò xiǎng
    mo4 xiang3
mo hsiang
silent contemplation; to meditate; to think in silence

黙思

see styles
 mokushi
    もくし
(noun/participle) silent contemplation

黙考

see styles
 mokkou / mokko
    もっこう
(n,vs,vi) contemplation; meditation

めい想

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 meisou / meso
    めいそう
(noun/participle) meditation; contemplation

三假觀


三假观

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sān jiǎ guān
    san1 jia3 guan1
san chia kuan
 sanke kan
The meditations on the three false assumptions 三假.

上輩觀


上辈观

see styles
shàng bèi guān
    shang4 bei4 guan1
shang pei kuan
 jōhai kan
The fourteenth of the sixteen contemplations of the Amitābha school, with reference to those who seek the Pure Land with sincere, profound, and altruistic hearts.

中輩觀


中辈观

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zhōng bèi guān
    zhong1 bei4 guan1
chung pei kuan
 chūhai kan
the meditation on the condition of 中輩.

中道觀


中道观

see styles
zhōng dào guān
    zhong1 dao4 guan1
chung tao kuan
 chūdō kan
One of the Tiantai 三觀 three meditations, i. e. on the doctrine of the Mean to get rid of the illusion of phenomena.

二諦觀


二谛观

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èr dì guān
    er4 di4 guan1
erh ti kuan
 nitai kan
contemplation on the two truths

信現觀


信现观

see styles
xìn xiàn guān
    xin4 xian4 guan1
hsin hsien kuan
 shin genkan
Firm faith in the triratna as revealing true knowledge; one of the 六現觀.

六行觀


六行观

see styles
liù xíng guān
    liu4 xing2 guan1
liu hsing kuan
 rokugyō kan
The six meditations, also called 厭欣觀; 六妙行 comparing the 下地 lower realms with the 上地 higher, the six following characters being the subject of meditation: the three lower represent 麤 coarseness, 苦 suffering, and 障 resistance; these in meditation are seen as distasteful: while the higher are the 靜 calm, 妙 mystic, 離 free, which are matters for delight. By this meditation on the distasteful and the delectable the delusions of the lower realms may be overcome.

化前序

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huà qián xù
    hua4 qian2 xu4
hua ch`ien hsü
    hua chien hsü
 Kezenjo
the preface to the 觀經疏 by 善導 Shandao of the Tang dynasty.

卽空觀


卽空观

see styles
jí kōng guān
    ji2 kong1 guan1
chi k`ung kuan
    chi kung kuan
 sokkū kan
realizing emptiness by contemplation of form

唯識觀


唯识观

see styles
wéi shì guān
    wei2 shi4 guan1
wei shih kuan
 yuishiki kan
The three subjects of idealistic refection: that the ego and things are realities; that things are produced by cause and circumstance; that the bhūtatathatā is the only reality. Also called 唯識三性觀, cf. 三性.

圓頓觀


圆顿观

see styles
yuán dùn guān
    yuan2 dun4 guan1
yüan tun kuan
 endon kan
(圓頓止觀) as given in the 摩訶止觀 is the concentration, or mental state, in which is perceived, at one and the same time, the unity in the diversity and the diversity in the unity, a method ascribed by Tiantai to the Lotus Sūtra; v. above.

實相觀


实相观

see styles
shí xiàng guān
    shi2 xiang4 guan1
shih hsiang kuan
 jissō kan
Insight into, or meditation on Reality.

平等観

see styles
 byoudoukan / byodokan
    びょうどうかん
(1) viewing all things as undifferentiated and equal; non-discriminative thought; (2) {Buddh} contemplation of the equality of all things from the standpoint of emptiness

性空觀


性空观

see styles
xìng kōng guān
    xing4 kong1 guan1
hsing k`ung kuan
    hsing kung kuan
 shōkū kan
The meditation of the 性空教 sect on the unreality, or immateriality, of the nature of things.

慈悲觀


慈悲观

see styles
cí bēi guān
    ci2 bei1 guan1
tz`u pei kuan
    tzu pei kuan
 jihi kan
The compassion-contemplation, in which pity destroys resentment.

所觀法


所观法

see styles
suǒ guān fǎ
    suo3 guan1 fa3
so kuan fa
 shokan hō
objects of contemplation

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