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- Samatha (Sanskrit: शमथ; Chinese: 止; pinyin: zhǐ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and vip****anā (Pāli; Sanskrit: विपश्यना; Sinhala: විදර්ශනා)...
- equanimity and sati (mindfulness); samadhi (unification of mind) c.q. samatha (tranquility) and vip****anā (insight); and are also said to lead to abhijñā...
- development (bhāvanā) of samatha-vip****ana is lauded. Subsequently, Theravada teachers have made use of the following compounds: samatha-bhāvanā, meaning the...
- Ledi Sayadaw po****rized Vip****ana meditation for lay people, teaching samatha and stressing the practice of satipatthana to acquire Vip****ana (insight)...
- disciples. Here he worked on adapting the Indian meditation principles of śamatha and vipaśyanā (translated as "zhi" and "guan") into a complex system of...
- Samantha Roberts (born 21 April 2000) is an Antiguan swimmer. She competed in the women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she...
- excited. Two types of mahāmudrā śamatha are generally taught: śamatha with support and śamatha without support. Mahāmudrā śamatha with support involves the...
- the principles of śamatha and vipaśyanā. Of the Tiantai meditation treatises, Zhiyi's Concise Śamatha-vipaśyanā (小止観), Mahā-śamatha-vipaśyanā (摩訶止観),...
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- (bhavana) taught in all forms of Buddhism, śamatha (Tib. Shine) and vipaśyanā (lhaktong). The practice of śamatha (calm abiding) is one of focusing one's...