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瑜伽

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Basic Meaning: yoga

Senses:

  • Transliteration of the Sanskrit term; a yoke, yoking, union, especially an ecstatic union of the individual soul with a divine being, or spirit, also of the individual soul with the universal soul. indicating a condition of stilling of the mind and accordance with the principle of reality. Meditation. Ridding the mind of distraction and concentrating on a particular object. Application. (Tib. sbyor ba). The method requires the mutual response or relation of 境, 行, 理, 果 and 機; i.e. (1) state, or environment, referred to mind; (2) action, or mode of practice; (3) right principle; (4) results in enlightenment; (5) motivation, i.e. practical application in saving others. Also the mutual relation of hand, mouth, and mind referring to manifestation, incantation, and mental operation; these are known as 瑜伽三密, the three esoteric (means) of Yoga. The older practice of meditation as a means of obtaining spiritual or magical power was distorted in Tantrism to exorcism, sorcery, and juggling in general. Also transliterated with 瑜誐; 遊迦. [Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura, JEBD, Soothill]
  • In esoteric Buddhism, harmony of an unenlightened person with the Buddha, which is achieved by making a mudrā, chanting a mantra, and meditating on a particular deity. [Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD]
  • A reference to the Yogâcāra school 瑜伽行派, Indian forerunner of the Chinese Faxiang 法相 school of Buddhism. [Charles Muller]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1069

    Bulgyo sajeon 664a

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 813

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 330b/367

    Zen Dust (Sasaki) 190, 313

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1380b

    Fo Guang Dictionary 5529

    Ding Fubao

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0827

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4919b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1757-2

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

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    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2008-09-18