Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

DDB Top Page 
 
 
  XML source

安

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: quiet

Senses:

  • Still; serenity; peace, tranquility (Skt. praśrabdhi; Tib. shin tu sbyangs pa). [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura,Stephen Hodge,Yokoi]
  • Contented, at ease, to rest in. To be at repose. [Charles Muller]
  • To pacify, to soothe, to settle. [Charles Muller]
  • To place, to fix at, to arrange. [Charles Muller]
  • Used to transliterate the foreign sound "an." [Charles Muller]
  • Constancy, continuity, composure; to endure. [Charles Muller]
  • To place or put. [Charles Muller]
  • A question marker, an interrogative: How? Why? Where? [Charles Muller]
  • Fixed samādhi, appaṇā-samādhi. The state (i.e. jhāna) when the mental factors are immovably fixed on the object of meditation. It follows access-jhāna 禪外行. 〔解脫道論 T 1648.32.414b19〕 [Nyanatusita]
  • (Skt. kṣema; sthāpayati; adhivāsa, adhivāsaka, adhivāsana, abhirohayati, avasthâna, āropita, āśvāsayati, upanikṣipya, karmaṇyatā, kṣematā, dhāraṇa, dhārayati, niyukta, niyojita, niveśaka, niveśayati, niveśin, paripūri, prakṣepa, pratiṣṭhāpayati, prayojayati, prasanna, prasrabdhi, vyavasthâna, śiva, saṃstha, saṃsthita, saṃniveśayati, sama, sāmya, sukha, supratiṣṭhita, sūpasthita, sthâna, sthāpanā; Tib. shin tu sbyangs pa) [Charles Muller; source(s): Hirakawa, YBh-Ind]
  • Peace, tranquil, quiet, pacify; to put, place;where ? how? [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
  • CJKV-E
  • Search SAT
  • Search INBUDS Database

    • Feedback

    [Dictionary References]

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 488

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 23b

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0372

    Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)

    Copyright provisions

    The rights to textual segments (nodes) of the DDB are owned by the author indicated in the brackets next to each segment. For rights regarding the compilation as a whole, please contact Charles Muller. Please do not reproduce without permission. And please do not copy into Wikipedia without proper citation!

    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2013-12-20