Samadhi

Unlike an ordinary seated Buddha image, this statue's own historical and present-day name IS the doctrine word itself: it presents the state of meditative absorption directly as its whole subject rather than narrating any episode from the Buddha's life.

Meditative absorption is not rejected as a teaching in Jodo Shinshu, but Shinran holds it beyond the capacity of the ordinary being of this age and treats its pursuit as self-power. The tradition's practice is the saying of the name in gratitude, not attainment.

Collected absorption is held in Advaita, and the school's two grades of it, with and without distinction, are already in its own vocabulary.

Collected absorption is held in Dvaita as sustained meditation on God, never as the loss of the distinction between worshipper and worshipped.

Collected absorption is held in the Gelug school, taught as calm abiding paired with insight and treated at length in the lamrim.

Collected absorption is held in the Jonang school.

Collected absorption is held in the Kagyu school, and the mahamudra instructions are given in terms of calm abiding and insight before they are given in their own terms.

Collected absorption is held in the Karma Kagyu school.

Collected absorption is held in Kashmir Shaivism, and the tradition is known for holding that it can be entered from ordinary states rather than only from withdrawal.

Collected absorption is held in Lingayatism, practised on the linga the initiate wears.

Collected absorption is held in Madhyamaka.

Collected absorption is held in Mahayana, and the Mahayana sutras name samadhis of their own that have no counterpart in the earlier lists.

Collected absorption is held in the Nath tradition as the end of the hatha yoga sequence, reached through the body rather than around it.

Collected absorption is held in Nichiren Buddhism, and the school holds that chanting the daimoku accomplishes what meditative practice was for.

Collected absorption is held in the Nyingma school.

Collected absorption is held in the Pure Land schools, and the visualisation practices of the Contemplation Sutra are its Pure Land form, alongside and earlier than the recitation practice the tradition became identified with.

Collected absorption is held in the Rinzai school, and koan work is described as concentration brought to a single point rather than as an alternative to it.

Collected absorption is held in the Sakya school.

Classical Samkhya teaches liberation by discriminative knowledge and does not itself prescribe a course of meditative absorption. The practice belongs to Yoga, the sister school that took over the Samkhya analysis and supplied the discipline it lacked.

Collected absorption is held across the Shaiva schools.

Collected absorption is held across the Shakta traditions.

Collected absorption is held in Shingon, and the school's ritual practice of body, speech and mind together is presented as its form.

Collected absorption is held in Shri Vidya. The practice by which it is approached is initiatory and closed, and is not described here.

Collected absorption is held in Smartism.

Collected absorption is held in the Soto school, and Dogen's recommendation of seated meditation presents it as the practice of awakening rather than as a means to it.

Collected absorption is held in Tendai, and the calming and contemplation practice inherited from Zhiyi is the backbone of training on Mount Hiei.

Concentration is the middle of the three divisions of the Theravada path, between virtue and wisdom, and the jhanas are its canonical measure.

Collected absorption is held in Tiantai, and Zhiyi's manual of calming and contemplation is one of the most detailed treatments of meditative practice in Chinese Buddhism.

Collected absorption is held across the Tibetan schools, taught as calm abiding paired with insight.

Collected absorption is held across the Vaishnava schools as sustained loving recollection of God rather than as the dissolution of the worshipper.

Collected absorption is held in Vajrayana, and the generation and completion stages are described in its terms.

Collected absorption is held in Vishishtadvaita as a form of sustained loving recollection rather than as the dissolution of distinction.

Collected absorption is held in Zen, and the school takes its name from the word.

Collected absorption is held in Gaudiya Vaishnavism as absorption in Krishna, reached through the chanting of the names rather than through seated withdrawal.

Collected absorption is held in ISKCON as absorption in Krishna reached through chanting rather than through seated withdrawal.

Collected absorption is held in Sri Vaishnavism as sustained loving recollection.

The Buddhist absorptions beside the Indian term used across traditions.

One of the two grades of samadhi.

One of the two grades of samadhi.