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Bhavana derives from the word Bhava meaning becoming or the subjective process of arousing mental states. To explain the cultural context of the historical Buddha's employment of the term, Glenn Wallis emphasizes bhavana ' s sense of cultivation. He writes that a farmer performs bhavana when he or she prepares soil and plants a seed. Wallis ...
Statue of Shiva, Bhagavan in Shaivism. The word Bhagavan (Sanskrit: भगवान्, romanized: Bhagavān; Pali: Bhagavā), also spelt as Bhagwan (sometimes translated in English as "Lord", "God"), is an epithet within Indian religions used to denote figures of religious worship.
The Bhavana Upanishad (Sanskrit: भावन उपनिषद्, IAST: Bhāvana Upaniṣad) is a medieval era minor Upanishad of Hinduism. [8] Composed in Sanskrit, the text is classified as one of the Shakta Upanishads and attached to the Atharvaveda .
Asubha bhavana is reflection on "the foul"/unattractiveness (Pāli: asubha). It includes two practices, namely cemetery contemplations, and Pa ṭ ikkūlamanasikāra, "reflections on repulsiveness". Patikulamanasikara is a Buddhist meditation whereby thirty-one parts of the body are contemplated in a variety of ways.
Bhavana is a Sanskrit and Pali word (bhāvana) that means 'development' or 'cultivating' or 'producing'. It (or variant Bhavna) is also a popular girls name and may refer to: People
Bhavana Sense for calling into existence. Bhumi Earth goddess Brahma The Creator God. Brahmaloka The celestial abode of Brahma. Brahmacharya The first phase of a person's life where he goes to live with his guru to learn the different studies. Brahman The Supreme Transcendental Awareness which pervades and yet transcends the manifest universe.
The brahmavihārā (sublime attitudes, lit. "abodes of Brahma") is a series of four Buddhist virtues and the meditation practices made to cultivate them. They are also known as the four immeasurables (Pāli: appamaññā) [1] or four infinite minds (Chinese: 四無量心). [2]
Buddha depicted in dhyāna, Amaravati, India. In the oldest texts of Buddhism, dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) or jhāna (Pali: 𑀛𑀸𑀦) is a component of the training of the mind (), commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions and "burn up" the defilements, leading to a "state of perfect equanimity and awareness (upekkhā ...