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Samatha-vipassanā

Samatha (Pāli samatha Sanskrit: śamatha शमथ; Chinese: 止; pinyin: zhǐ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and vipassanā (Pāli vipassanā; Sanskrit: vipaśyanā विपश्यना; Sinhala: විදර්ශනා), literally "special, super (vi-), seeing (-passanā)", are two qualities of the mind developed in tandem in Buddhist practice.

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Burmese
ဝိပဿနာ (WiPakThaNar)
Chinese
觀 (Pinyin: guān)
English
insight, clear-seeing, special seeing, distinct seeing
Japanese
観 (Rōmaji: kan)
Khmer
វិបស្សនា (UNGEGN: vĭbâssânéa)
Pali
विपस्सना (vipassanā)

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Samatha

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Theravāda and the vipassanā movement

Northern tradition

Mahāyāna

East Asian Mahāyāna

Indo-Tibetan tradition

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Samatha-vipassanā

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Samatha-vipassanā

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Burmese · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → ဝိပဿနာ (WiPakThaNar)
Chinese · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → 觀 (Pinyin: guān)
English · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → insight, clear-seeing, special seeing, distinct seeing
Japanese · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → 観 (Rōmaji: kan)
Khmer · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → វិបស្សនា (UNGEGN: vĭbâssânéa)
Pali · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → विपस्सना (vipassanā)
Sanskrit · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → विपश्यना (IAST: vipaśyanā)
Sinhala · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → විපස්සනා (vipassana)
Thai · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → สมถะวิปัสสนา
Tibetan · 1
Samatha-vipassanā → ལྷག་མཐོང་ (Wylie: lhag mthong; THL: lhak-thong)

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samatha meditation insight vipassanā practice mind mindfulness śamatha tradition vipaśyanā theravāda concentration one according tib developed jhāna buddhist also tranquility

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Samatha-vipassanāBurmeseဝိပဿနာ (WiPakThaNar)1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāChinese觀 (Pinyin: guān)1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāEnglishinsight, clear-seeing, special seeing, distinct seeing1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāJapanese観 (Rōmaji: kan)1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāKhmerវិបស្សនា (UNGEGN: vĭbâssânéa)1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāPaliविपस्सना (vipassanā)1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāSanskritविपश्यना (IAST: vipaśyanā)1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāSinhalaවිපස්සනා (vipassana)1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāThaiสมถะวิปัสสนา1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāTibetanལྷག་མཐོང་ (Wylie: lhag mthong; THL: lhak-thong)1.00infobox
Samatha-vipassanāVietnameseminh sát, quán1.00infobox
Henepola Gunaratana state that there is virtually no evidence of this method in the Pāḷi suttasinstance ofmodern Buddhist teachers0.80text

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