• 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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    In the oldest texts of Buddhism, dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) or jhāna (Pali: 𑀛𑀸𑀦) is a component of the training of the mind (bhavana), commonly translated...
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    Dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) in Hinduism means contemplation and meditation. Dhyana is taken up in Yoga practices, and is a means to samadhi and self-knowledge...
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    pranayama (breathing), pratyahara (withdrawal), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (absorption). The eight limbs form a sequence from...
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    interpreted as a meditative absorption or trance attained by the practice of dhyāna. Samadhi may refer to a broad range of states. A common understanding regards...
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  • The Dhyāna sutras (Chinese: 禪經 chan jing) (Japanese 禅経 zen-gyo) or "meditation summaries" (Chinese: 禪要) or also known as The Zen Sutras are a group of...
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    Jangama dhyana is a meditation technique which has been practiced by various sages over the centuries. In recent times, this technique was widely taught...
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    self-restraint, and cultivating kindness and compassion; and culminating in dhyana or samadhi, which reinforces these practices for the development of the...
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    Jain meditation (Sanskrit: ध्यान, dhyana) has been the central practice of spirituality in Jainism along with the Three Jewels. Jainism holds that emancipation...
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  • Meditation (section Dhyana)
    religious or spiritual influences. The earliest records of meditation (dhyana) are found in the Upanishads, and meditation plays a salient role in the...
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    Mudra (redirect from Dhyāna Mudrā)
    Amitābha are seen using this mudra before the 9th century in Japan. The dhyāna mudrā ("meditation mudra") is the gesture of meditation, of the concentration...
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    The Dhyana Buddha is a statue of Gautama Buddha seated in a meditative posture located in Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh, India. Completed in 2015, the statue...
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    supporting role in Aval Peyar Thamizharasi (2010) and debuted under the name Dhyana. Her next film was Virunthali (2010), where she played the heroine. She...
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    Zuochan Sanmei Jing (坐禪三昧經,Sutra of sitting dhyāna samādhi) and the Damoduoluo Chan Jing (達摩多羅禪經, Dharmatrata dhyāna sutra). These early Chinese meditation...
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    classical languages of Buddhism are bhāvanā ("mental development") and jhāna/dhyāna (mental training resulting in a calm and luminous mind). Buddhists pursue...
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    Epyc (redirect from Hygon Dhyana)
    the Chinese server market by Hygon Information Technology is the Hygon Dhyana system on a chip. It is noted to be a variant of the AMD Epyc, and is so...
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    people to Preksha Dhyana by making it intersect with the global yoga market". The key texts of this meditation system are Prekṣā-Dhyāna: Ādhāra aura Svarūpa...
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    three studio albums to date, Quarterpast in 2011, Antagonise in 2014 and Dhyana in 2018. The name was chosen by Jansen out of his fascination for the ancient...
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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...
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  • integration) is the combined simultaneous practice of Dhāraṇā (concentration), Dhyāna (meditation) and Samādhi (union). Samyama is a tool to receive deeper knowledge...
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  • combination of mindfulness and dhyāna, applied to the understanding of the arising and ceasing of craving. The relation between dhyana and insight is a core problem...
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    be) with their Ishta linga in their hand in a simple sitting cross-legged dhyana position. Unlike other Hindus, whose functions are presided by Brahmins...
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  • Dogen convinces Dhyana to help him find Syn. Dhyana takes Dogen to Zax, who identifies the crystal as a lifeforce storage device. Dhyana tells them about...
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  • interested in meditation from his childhood. His master Ramakrishna found him a dhyana - siddha (expert in meditation). On 24 December 1892, Vivekananda reached...
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    Gita Dhyanam (redirect from Gita Dhyana)
    The Gītā Dhyānam (Sanskrit: गीता ध्यानम्), also called the Gītā Dhyāna or the Dhyāna Ślokas associated with the Gītā, is a 9-verse Sanskrit poem that has...
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  • (bhāvanā) of mindfulness (sati) and meditation (jhāna/dhyāna) and other path-factors. While jhāna/dhyāna has a central role in the Buddhist path, vipassanā...
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  • Sahasranama is characterized by the Dhyana, which are descriptive verses for visualization. There are four dhyana verses. It describes the yogi (the person...
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    (Sarvāstivāda tradition) or 90,000 years (Vibhajyavāda tradition). The Third Dhyana The Heaven of Pervasive Purity Those for whom the world, the body, and the...
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    Scripture About Meditation on the Buddha ‘Of Infinite Life’ (Amitāyur Buddha Dhyāna Sūtra, 觀無量壽佛經), An Lac Publications. ISBN 978-1-7923-4208-0 The Scripture...
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    Rūpadhātu have minds corresponding to the dhyānas (Pāli: jhānas). In their case, it is the four lower dhyānas or rūpadhyānas (रुपध्यान). However, although...
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