• Samatha (Pāli; Sinhala: සමථ; Chinese: 止; pinyin: zhǐ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and vipassanā (Pāli; Sinhala විදර්ශනා (Vidarshana);...
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  • Sayadaw popularized Vipassana meditation for lay people, teaching samatha and stressing the practice of satipatthana to acquire Vipassana (insight) into the...
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    and sati (mindfulness); samadhi (unification of mind) c.q. samatha (tranquility) and vipassanā (insight); and are also said to lead to abhijñā (supramundane...
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    22806; 72.8060528 The Global Vipassana Pagoda is a Meditation dome hall with a capacity to seat around 8,000 Vipassana meditators (the largest such meditation...
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  • development (bhāvanā) of samatha-vipassana is lauded. Subsequently, Theravada teachers have made use of the following compounds: samatha-bhāvanā, meaning the...
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    ang ka; 30 January 1924 – 29 September 2013) was an Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma to an Indian business family, he moved to India...
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  • follow the Sekhiyavatta rules in addition to the Ten Precepts. Adhikarana-samatha are seven rules for settlement of legal processes that concern monks only...
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    Anussati Buddhanussati Buddhist meditation Jarāmaraṇa Patikulamanasikara Samatha-vipassana Xingqi (circulating breath) Zazen In the Pali canon, the instructions...
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    Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen Tantra...
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  • "stream-enterer", the first stage on the path to liberation. Vipassana is practiced in tandem with Samatha, and also plays a central role in other Buddhist traditions...
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    Iddhipada Kevatta Sutta Levitation (paranormal) Miracles of Lord Buddha Samatha Vipassanā Pio 1988, p. 60. Schober 2002, p. 138. Saletore 1981, p. 17. "The...
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  • Devanapathis International Samatha-vipassana Meditation Center; commonly known as Pallekele Meditation Center is Buddhist monastery in Kandy, Sri Lanka...
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  • means to liberation. Vipassanā (Sanskrit: vipaśyanā) has a central role in this. Insight is emphasized by the contemporary Vipassana movement. A "Stream-enterer"...
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    emphasis is recognizable in the value that is given to vipassana over samatha in the contemporary vipassana movement. According to scholars, the Visuddhimagga...
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    contemporary vipassana movement interprets the Satipatthana Sutta as "describing a pure form of insight (vipassanā) meditation" for which samatha (calm) and...
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    being specifically vipassanā-paññā ("insight wisdom"), meaning insight knowledge endowed with virtue. Buddhaghosa defines vipassanā-paññā as “knowing in...
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  • Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen Tantra...
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  • organization, and after spending some time in Dharamsala now he practices Samatha-vipassana meditation. He earned a degree in psychology from San Jose State University...
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    disciples. Here he worked on adapting the Indian meditation principles of śamatha and vipaśyanā (translated as "zhi" and "guan") into a complex system of...
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    Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen Tantra...
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    Main Gable, Wat Phra Putthabat Tak Pha, Lamphun Entrance to the Global Vipassana Pagoda Lok Sabha chamber of the New Parliament building, New Delhi The...
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    insight preceded by serenity (Pali: samatha-pubbaṇgamaṃ vipassanaṃ), one develops serenity preceded by insight (vipassanā-pubbaṇgamaṃ samathaṃ), one develops...
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  • purity, knowingness (jnana), and omni-radiant loving-kindness (maitri). Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (Sanskrit: विपश्यन) in the Buddhist tradition means...
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    Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen Tantra...
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  • recognizable in the value that is given to vipassana over samatha, especially in the contemporary vipassana movement. The Sarvāstivāda Vaibhāṣika school...
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    Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen Tantra...
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    Eight Precepts Four Noble Truths Noble Eightfold Path Pāli Canon Samatha & Vipassanā Cetiya Vassa Kathina Uposatha Patimokkha Upasampadā Bai Sema Ordination...
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    derives from the Indian Buddhist practice of the union (Skt. yuganaddha) of śamatha and vipaśyanā. In Hongzhi's practice of "nondual objectless meditation"...
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    Meditation Mantras Kammaṭṭhāna Recollection Smarana Anapanasati Samatha Vipassanā (Vipassana movement) Shikantaza Zazen Koan Ganana Mandala Tonglen Tantra...
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    (bhavana) taught in all forms of Buddhism, śamatha (Tib. Shine) and vipaśyanā (lhaktong). The practice of śamatha (calm abiding) is one of focusing one's...
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