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There are 12 total results for your 奢摩他 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

奢摩他

see styles
shē mó tā
    she1 mo2 ta1
she mo t`a
    she mo ta
 shamata

More info & calligraphy:

Samatha
(or 奢摩陀); 舍摩他 śamatha, 'quiet, tranquility, calmness of mind, absence of passion.' M. W. Rest, peace, power to end (passion, etc.), one of the seven names for dhyāna.

奢摩他力

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shē mó tā lì
    she1 mo2 ta1 li4
she mo t`a li
    she mo ta li
 shamatariki
power of stable abiding meditation

奢摩他品

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shē mó tā pǐn
    she1 mo2 ta1 pin3
she mo t`a p`in
    she mo ta pin
 shamata hon
belonging to the quality, or category, of calm abiding

奢摩他支

see styles
shē mó tā zhī
    she1 mo2 ta1 zhi1
she mo t`a chih
    she mo ta chih
 shamatashi
branch of calm abiding meditation

奢摩他觀


奢摩他观

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shē mó tā guān
    she1 mo2 ta1 guan1
she mo t`a kuan
    she mo ta kuan
 shamata kan
śamatha (tranquility) method of meditation

修奢摩他

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xiū shē mó tā
    xiu1 she1 mo2 ta1
hsiu she mo t`a
    hsiu she mo ta
 shu shamata
to practice calming meditation

勝奢摩他


胜奢摩他

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shèng shē mó tā
    sheng4 she1 mo2 ta1
sheng she mo t`a
    sheng she mo ta
 shō shamata
tranquility meditation

奢摩他損伏


奢摩他损伏

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shē mó tā sǔn fú
    she1 mo2 ta1 sun3 fu2
she mo t`a sun fu
    she mo ta sun fu
 shamata sonpuku
stifling [the afflictions] by calming the mind

奢摩他毘婆舍那

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shē mó tā pí pó shèn à
    she1 mo2 ta1 pi2 po2 shen4 a4
she mo t`a p`i p`o shen a
    she mo ta pi po shen a
 shamata bibashana
calm and insight

奢摩他毘缽舍那


奢摩他毘钵舍那

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shē mó tā pí bō shèn à
    she1 mo2 ta1 pi2 bo1 shen4 a4
she mo t`a p`i po shen a
    she mo ta pi po shen a
 shamata bipasshana
śamatha-vipaśyanā

奢摩他毘鉢舍那


奢摩他毘钵舍那

see styles
shē mó tā pí bō shèn à
    she1 mo2 ta1 pi2 bo1 shen4 a4
she mo t`a p`i po shen a
    she mo ta pi po shen a
 shamata bipashana
calm and insight

奢摩他力之所任持

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shē mó tā lì zhī suǒ rén chí
    she1 mo2 ta1 li4 zhi1 suo3 ren2 chi2
she mo t`a li chih so jen ch`ih
    she mo ta li chih so jen chih
 shamata riki no sho ninji
maintained by the power of stabilizing meditation

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 12 results for "奢摩他" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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