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三三昧

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Basic Meaning: three samādhis

Senses:

  • (Skt. samādhi-traya; Pāli tayo samādhī). These are:
    1. The samādhi of emptiness 空三昧; to free the mind of the ideas of me and mine and suffering, based on oneʼs insight into emptiness.
    2. The samādhi of no-marks 無相三昧; to be rid of the idea of form, or externals, based on the insight into the emptiness of all phenomena. I.e. the 十相 which are the five senses, and male and female, and the three existences 三有.
    3. the samādhi of noncontrivance 無願三昧; to be rid of all desires, based on an insight into the emptiness of all things, also termed 無起 and 無作.
    There are two modes of each of these three: contaminated 有漏 (called 三三昧), and uncontaminated 無漏 (called 三解脫). A more advanced meditation is called the double three samādhis 重三三昧 in which each term is doubled 空空, 無相無相, 無願無願. 〔金剛三昧經 T 273.9.372a14;摩訶止觀 T 1911.46.16c18〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Hirakawa, JEBD, Iwanami]
  • Three forms of mental attention in regard to cognizing objects in terms of coarse apprehension (vitarka) 尋 and fine analysis (vicāra) 伺.
    1. mental attention with coarse apprehension and fine analysis 有尋有伺三昧
    2. mental attention with only fine analysis 無尋唯伺三昧
    3. mental attention with neither coarse apprehension nor fine analysis 無尋無伺三昧
    [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • In the Satyasiddhi-śāstra 成實論 the three kinds of mental attention of
    1. partially cultivated mental attention 分修三昧: cultivating either wisdom 慧 or concentration 定.
    2. cooperatively cultivated mental attention 共修三昧: cultivating concentration-then-wisdom, or wisdom-then-concentration.
    3. noble mental attention 聖正三昧: cultivating both together. 〔成實論 T 1646.32.335a23〕
    [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
  • In Tiantai 天台宗, the three of
    1. mental attention on the ultimate truth 眞諦三昧
    2. mental attention on the conventional truth 俗諦三昧
    3. royal attention on the middle way 中道王三昧
    Also called 三三昧地, 三三摩地, 三定, 三等持; 三空; 三治, 三解脫門; 三重三昧; 三重等持. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 351

    Bulgyo sajeon 405a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 394c

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 315

    A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 311

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 260b/287

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 464b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 521

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0020

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 618-3

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2019-01-18