Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dhyāna (Sanskrit; Devanagari: ध्यान) or Jhāna (झान) (Pāli) means meditation in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It refers to various states of samadhi, a state of consciousness in which the observer detaches from several qualities of the mind. In this state one has become firm and stable and everything that is appearing is noticed but not identified to.Dhyana is the awareness of the observer (witness) yet inclusive of mind, body, senses and surroundings, however not identified with it, deepening of which leads to samadhi. The Sutta Pitaka describes four levels of dhyana, called jhana, each of increasing depth. The Jhanas are described many times in the Pāli canon, and a great deal of the post-canonical Theravāda Buddhist and Mahayana literature have been devoted to its elucidation.The Zen-tradition has been named after this meditative state, though in Chinese Buddhism dhyana may refer to all kind of meditation techniques and their preparatory practices which can be used to attain samadhi.. }
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- Dhyāna_in_Buddhism abstract "Dhyāna (Sanskrit; Devanagari: ध्यान) or Jhāna (झान) (Pāli) means meditation in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It refers to various states of samadhi, a state of consciousness in which the observer detaches from several qualities of the mind. In this state one has become firm and stable and everything that is appearing is noticed but not identified to.Dhyana is the awareness of the observer (witness) yet inclusive of mind, body, senses and surroundings, however not identified with it, deepening of which leads to samadhi. The Sutta Pitaka describes four levels of dhyana, called jhana, each of increasing depth. The Jhanas are described many times in the Pāli canon, and a great deal of the post-canonical Theravāda Buddhist and Mahayana literature have been devoted to its elucidation.The Zen-tradition has been named after this meditative state, though in Chinese Buddhism dhyana may refer to all kind of meditation techniques and their preparatory practices which can be used to attain samadhi.".