- in the Four
Dhyanas Others Leigh Breighton,
Interpretations of the
Jhanas Jhana Wars!, Simple|Suttas O'Brien, Barbara. "Jhanas or
Dhyanas: A Progression...
- Look up
dhyana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Dhyana may
refer to:
Dhyana in
Buddhism (Pāli: jhāna)
Dhyana in
Hinduism Jain
Dhyāna, see Jain meditation...
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Buddhism introduced its own ideas,
states Bronkhorst, such as the four
dhyanas,
which did not
affect the
mainstream meditation traditions in Jain and...
- Amitābha are seen
using this
mudra before the 9th
century in ****an. The
dhyāna mudrā ("meditation mudra") is the
gesture of meditation, of the concentration...
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factors implicated in a
phenomenal event." Vitarka-vicara in the
Buddhist dhyanas can also be seen as
initial inquiry and
subsequent investigation of dhammas...
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descriptions of the four
dhyanas,
describing the
cognitive aspects instead of the
bodily aspects.
According to ****, in the
final stages of
dhyana no
ideation of...
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influences for its
health benefits. The
earliest records of
meditation (
dhyana) are
found in the Upanishads, and
meditation plays a
salient role in the...
- are also
significantly different than the non-Mahayana
dhyānas.
While in Theravada, the
dhyānas are
meant to go
beyond all
thought into a
perfectly peaceful...
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supranormal powers (abhijñā)
attained by
advanced meditation through the four
dhyānas. The main
sense of the word
seems to be "potency".
According to Bowker...
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practice of
dhyāna. Some scholars, like Bronkhorst, see the four
dhyānas as a
Buddhist invention.
Alexander Wynne argues that the
Buddha learned dhyāna from...
