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Buddhist meditation
- BuddhānusmṛtiThe term Buddhānusmriti appears in numerous Buddhist sources, including the Pali Nikayas where it is described as a practice leading all the way to nirvana.
- AnapanasatiA Buddha statue sits in quiet meditation, hands resting gently on its lap. This image represents the practice known as anāpānasati, meaning mindfulness of…
- Buddhist meditationIn the ancient landscape of India, a wandering ascetic named Gautama sat beneath a tree and began to explore states of mind that had never been fully mapped.
- VedanāThe Pali word vedanā translates simply as feeling or sensation. It refers to the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral sensations that occur when internal sense…
- Five hindrancesIn the Buddhist tradition, mental factors known as hindrances block progress in meditation and daily life. Theravada teachers identify these five specific…
- SatipatthanaThe word satipatthana appears in the Pali Canon as a compound term that scholars have parsed in two distinct ways. One parsing reads it as presence of…
- Samatha-vipassanāThe Sanskrit word śamatha translates to tranquility, calm, or quietude of the heart. In Pali, samatha carries the same meaning of serenity and mental…
- ZazenThe word zazen appears in Japanese Buddhist texts, but its roots stretch back to the Chinese term zuòchán found in early sources like the Dhyāna sutras.
- Sati (Buddhism)In 1881, Thomas William Rhys Davids first translated the Pali term sati into English as mindfulness. This translation appeared in his work Buddhist Suttas…
- YogacharaIn the first centuries of the common era, a group of yogis from the Sarvastivada and Sautrantika traditions in north India began to adopt Mahayana Buddhism.
- Noble Eightfold PathThe Pali term Ariya-magga translates to 'Noble Eightfold Path' in English, a convention established by early translators of Buddhist texts.