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བསམ་གཏན་གཞི། | Glossary of Terms
བསམ་གཏན་གཞི།
bsam gtan gzhi
caturdhyāna
- Term
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
Four levels of concentration conducive to birth within the form realm..
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
- 四禪
The four levels of concentration of beings residing in the form realm.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four levels of meditative concentration.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four levels of concentration related to the form realm.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་གཞི།
- bsam gtan gzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four levels of meditative absorption of the beings of the form realms.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four progressive levels of concentration of the form realm that culminate in pure one-pointedness of mind, and are a requirement for cultivation of the five or six types of higher knowledges, and so on. These are part of the nine gradual attainments.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four levels of meditative absorption of the beings of the form realms.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
- 四禪
The four progressive levels of concentration of the form realm that culminate in pure one-pointedness of mind, and are a requirement for cultivation of the five or six superknowledges, and so on. These are part of the nine gradual attainments.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four progressive levels of concentration of the form realm that culminate in pure one-pointedness of mind, and are a requirement for cultivation of the five or six superknowledges, and so on. These are part of the nine gradual attainments.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four progressive levels of concentration of the form realm that culminate in pure one-pointedness of mind, and are a requirement for cultivation of the five or six superknowledges, and so on. These are part of the nine gradual attainments.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four levels of concentration related to the form realm.
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་བཏན་བཞི།
- bsam btan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four levels of the realm of form.
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- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
- Four concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- catvāri dhyānāni
- Four meditative concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
Described at length in UT22084-031-002-170. See also “meditative concentration.”
The four meditative concentrations and their fruits are specifically examined in Jamgon Kongtrul, TOK Book 6, Pt. 2: 427–436. For Pāli and Sanskrit sources, see Dayal (1932): 225–231.
- Four meditative concentrations
- བསམ་གཏན་གཞི།
- bsam gtan gzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four levels of meditative concentration previously attained by beings who inhabit the heavens of the form realm. These are named “first” through “fourth” and each is described at length in Buddhist texts.
- Four meditations
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
A standard classification of four increasingly refined meditative states found in Buddhist texts.
- Four states of concentration
- བསམ་གཏན་བཞི།
- bsam gtan bzhi
- caturdhyāna
The four levels of meditative absorption of form realm beings.