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Medawi's meditation manual focuses on the three marks of existence and the five aggregates, and cites Pali textual sources. He wrote over thirty meditation manuals. His teachings were promoted by the court of the Burmese king Bodaw-hpaya (r. 1782–1819) who gave him a title and an endowment. [1]
The text is addressed to a "Yogāvacara", referring to any practitioner of Buddhist meditation and hence it is a practical meditation manual. [2]The text covers Buddhist meditation material such as the ten recollections (), the brahmaviharas, the five kinds of piti (joy), the four formless realms (arūpajhāna), the nimittas, and 10 vipassanā-ñāṇas. [3]
The Dhyāna sutras (Chinese: 禪經 chan jing) (Japanese 禅経 zen-gyo) or "meditation summaries" (Chinese: 禪要) or also known as The Zen Sutras are a group of early Buddhist meditation texts which are mostly based on the Yogacara [note 1] meditation teachings of the Sarvāstivāda school of Kashmir circa 1st-4th centuries CE. [1]
Reproduction of the Tenpuku version of Dogen's Fukanzazengi, originally produced in 1233. Fukan zazengi (Japanese: 普勸坐禪儀), also known by its English translation Universal Recommendation for Zazen, is an essay describing and promoting the practice of zazen written by the 13th century Japanese Zen monk Eihei Dōgen.
The Zuòchán Yí or Principles of Zazen (Chinese: 坐禅仪), is a short Chan Buddhist meditation manual attributed to a monk named Changlu Zongze (flourished c. turn of the 12th century) during the Northern Song dynasty (CE 960 - 1126) which exemplifies the practice of seated meditation which aims at "sudden" enlightenment. According to Peter ...
The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful (Tharpa Publications (2003) ISBN 978-0-9817277-1-4) is a guide to Buddhist philosophy and meditation techniques. It is a compilation of twenty-one concise meditations on Lamrim , or the stages of the path to enlightenment, by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso , a Buddhist teacher ...
Buddhabhadra's work was profoundly influential on later Chinese Buddhism.His meditation manuals and his disciples (Zhiyan, Huiguan, Baoyun, Xuangao and Tanyao) influenced the practice of Chinese Buddhist meditation, and the popularity of the construction of grotto meditation cave-temples such as the Yungang Grottoes, Maijishan Grottoes and the Bingling Temple Grottoes. [5]
The third is a yogācāra, here in the sense of meditation practitioner, who according to the Chinese was a Dhyāna or Chan master and the author of the meditation manual *Dharmatrāta-dhyānasūtra (達摩多羅禪經, T 618) translated into Chinese between 385 and 520 CE, and who can be assigned to Kashmir towards the start of the fifth century.