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定根

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Basic Meaning: faculty of meditation

Senses:

  • Meditation 禪定 as a wholesome root 善根, being the fourth of the five faculties 五根. Also one of the twenty-two faculties 二十二根。The Treatise on the Taste of the Nectar of the Abhidharma defines the faculty of concentration as the faculty that stabilizes the mindʼs absorption in the four dhyānas 四禪定. The faculty of concentration ensures oneʼs single-minded 一心 mental focus on the object of contemplative practice. 〔阿毘曇甘露味論 1553.28.977b23〕 (Skt. samādhîndriya, dhyānâdy-akṣa, samāpatty-indriya; Tib. ting nge 'dzin gyi dbang po). 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.398c21〕 [Charles Muller, Billy Brewster; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Soothill, YBh-Ind, Hirakawa, Yokoi]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 572

    Bulgyo sajeon 775a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 544c

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 293

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 747d

    Fo Guang Dictionary 3180

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0377

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4038a

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1223-3

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

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    Entry created: 2001-09-08

    Updated: 2018-12-06