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Anupashyana, Գܱ貹śⲹ: 3 definitions

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Anupashyana means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Գܱ貹śⲹ can be transliterated into English as Anupasyana or Anupashyana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Anupashyana in Mahayana glossary
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Գܱ貹śⲹ (अनुपश्यन�, “contemplations�) according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XVI).�

Among ordinary people (ṛt󲹲ᲹԲ), there are three kinds of contemplations (Գܱ貹śⲹ). To try to escape from desire () and form (ū貹), they contemplate the coarseness (ṣy), deceitfulness (ñԲ) and corruption (첹ṣҲ) of the desire realm (峾dhātu) and the form realm (ū貹dhātu).

Among the Buddha’s disciples, there are eight kinds of contemplations (Գܱ貹śⲹ): for them, everything is impermanent (anitya), suffering (ḥk), empty (śūԲⲹ), egoless (ٳ첹), like a sickness (roga), an ulcer (ṇḍ), like an arrow (śⲹ) stuck in one’s body, like an agony (agha).

: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Գܱ貹śⲹ (अनुपश्यन�) refers to “awareness�, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly: “[...] Furthermore, son of good family, the Bodhisattva, having known that the form is impermanent, having cultivated the application of awareness concerned with body (kāya-Գܱ貹śⲹ), etc., having known that the form is like grass, trees, walls, paths, and reflections, cultivates the application of awareness concerned with body. The Bodhisattva understands the suchness of body through the suchness of form, and understands from the suchness of body to the suchness of all dharmas. This suchness of all dharmas is the absence of suchness, is not different from suchness, and nothing else but suchness. [...]�.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many ūٰ of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā ūٰ.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Anupashyana in Sanskrit glossary
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Գܱ貹śⲹ (अनुपश्यन�).�(= Pali °passanā), viewing, considera- [Page030-a+ 71] tion: Śṣāsܳⲹ 232.7; 236.13; Kāśyapa Parivarta 95.2 ff.; ǻ󾱲ٳٱū 259.21 ff.; in all these in statements of the smṛtyupasthāna, q.v.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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