Abhisamaya: 11 definitions

Introduction
In Buddhism
1. Theravada
2. Mahayana
Languages
1. Pali
2. Sanskrit
3. Hindi
See also

Introduction:

Abhisamaya means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Hindi. 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.

Alternative spellings of this word include Abhisamay.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines

'truth-realization',

is the full and direct grasp of the Four Noble Truths by the Stream-winner (Sotāpanna; s. ariya-puggala).

In the Com. the term is represented by 'penetration' (pativedha, q.v.). Frequently occurring as dhammābhisamaya, 'realization of the doctrine'

Cf. S. XIII (Abhisamaya Samyutta) and Pts.M. (Abhisamaya Kathā).

context information

Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Abhisamaya (अभिसमय) refers to “understanding (of the Dharma)”.—The characters tao tsi are often used to render the expression dharmābhisamaya ‘understanding of the Dharma’ (cf. T 1462, k. 2, p. 688c5).

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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 sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

abhisamaya : (m.) realisation; penetration.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Abhisamaya, (abhi + samaya, from sam + i, cp. abhisameti & sameti; BSk. abhisamaya, e. g. Divy 200, 654) “coming by completely”, insight into, comprehension, realization, clear understanding, grasp, penetration. See on term Kvu trsl. 381 sq. — Esp. in full phrases: attha° grasp of what is proficient S.I, 87 = A.III, 49 = It.17, cp. A.II, 46; ariyasaccānaṃ a. full understanding of the 4 noble truths S.V, 415, 440, 441 (cp. Divy 654: anabhisamitānāṃ caturnāṃ āryasatyānāṃ a.); Sn.758 (sacca° = sacc’âvabodha SnA 509); Miln.214 (catusacc°); Sdhp.467 (catusacc°), 525 (saccānaṃ); dhamm’âbhisamaya full grasp of the Dhamma, quasi conversion (cp. dharm’âbhisamaya Divy 200) S.II, 134; Miln.20, 350; VvA.219; PvA.9 etc. frequent; sammā-mān’âbhisamaya full understanding of false pride in ster. phrase” acchecchi (for acchejji) taṇhaṃ, vivattayi saññojanaṃ sammāmānâbhisamayā antam akāsi dukkhassa” at S.IV, 205, 207, 399; A.III, 246, 444; It.47; cp. māna° S.I, 188 = Th.2, 20 (tato mānâbhisamayā upasanto carissasi, trsl. by Mrs. Rh. D. in K. S. 239 “hath the mind mastered vain imaginings, then mayst thou go thy ways calm and serene”); Sn.342 (expl^d. by mānassa abhisamayo khayo vayo pahānaṃ SnA 344). Also in foll. passages: S.II, 5 (paññāya), 104 (id.), 133 sq. (Abhisamaya Saṃyutta); Sn.737 (phassa°, expl^d. ad sensum but not at verbum by phassa-nirodha SnA 509); Ps.II, 215; Pug.41; Vv 16¹⁰ (= saccapaṭivedha VvA.85); DA.I, 32; DhA.I, 109; VvA.73 (bhāvana°), 84 (sacchikiriya°); Dpvs.I, 31. —anabhisamaya not grasping correctly, insufficient understanding, taken up wrongly S.III, 260; Pug.21; Dhs.390, 1061, 1162 (Mrs. Rh. D. trsl^s. “lack of coordination”). (Page 71)

[Pali to Burmese]

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

abhisamaya—

(Burmese text): ရှေ့ရှုမျက်မှောက်-ရှေးရှူတူရူ-အတူတကွ-ပေါင်း-ဆုံ-ကြုံ- တွေ့-ခြင်း-မိခြင်း၊ (၁) (က) ဇရာမရဏ၏အကြောင်း,ပညာ၏-ပညာ,ဇရာမရဏ၏ အကြောင်း၏-ပေါင်း-ဆုံ-ခြင်း-မိခြင်း၊-ဟုတ်မှန်သည့်အတိုင်း သိခြင်း၏ အစွမ်းအားဖြင့်-ပေါင်း-ဆုံ-ခြင်း-မိခြင်း။ (ခ) ပရိညေယျဘိသမယစသည်တို့၏ အစွမ်းတရားတို့ကို-ရှေ့ရှုမျက်မှောက်အားဖြင့်-ကြုံ-တွေ့-ခြင်း-ထိုးထွင်း၍ သိခြင်း။ (၂) (က) ရခြင်း၊ ရှေ့ရှုမျက်မှောက်ရခြင်း။ (ခ) အထက်မဂ်ကို ရခြင်း။ (၃) လွန်ကဲသော ပယ်ခြင်း။ (၄) (က) ရှေ့ရှုမျက်မှောက်အပြစ်အားဖြင့် ကောင်းစွာ သိတတ်သောဉာဏ်၊ တရားတို့ကို ဟုတ်မှန်သည့်အတိုင်း သိတတ်သော ဉာဏ်။ (ခ) ရှေ့ရှုမျက်မှောက်ကောင်းစွာ သိကြောင်းဖြစ်သော ဉာဏ်။ (၅) ရှေ့ရှုမျက်မှောက်-ဉာဏ်ဖြင့်-သိအပ်သော တရား၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်,တကွသော တရားတို့၏ မဖောက်မပြန်သော သဘော၊ ပရမတ္ထတရား။ ပဌမာဘိသမယ,ဓမ္မာဘိသမယ-ကြည့်။ (၂) (က) အတ္ထာဘိသမယ-ကြည့်။ (၃) ဖဿာဘိသမယ-တို့လည်းကြည့်။ (၅) အဘိသမယဋ္ဌ-လည်းကြည့်။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။

(Auto-Translation): Vision, understanding, togetherness, gathering, encountering, meeting, (1) (a) the essence of Jaramarana, knowledge - the knowledge of Jaramarana - the gathering and meeting of the essence of Jaramarana - knowing accurately through the power of understanding - gathering and meeting. (b) Experiencing and understanding the powers of phenomena such as Pratitya-samutpada (dependent origination). (2) (a) Attainment, experiencing the vision. (b) Attaining the ultimate. (3) Extreme rejection. (4) (a) Wisdom that knows accurately through vision, wisdom that knows the truths as they are. (b) Wisdom that understands through the vision well. (5) The truths known through the vision - Nibbana, and the unalterable nature of truths, the supreme truth. Examine the two - the Dhamma and the phenomena. (2) (a) Examine the Atthabhinna phenomena. (3) Also examine the Phasadha phenomena. (5) Also examine the Abhidhamma treatise. See the original.

context information

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Abhisamaya (अभिसमय).—m. (= Pali id., in both mgs.; to abhi- sameti, q.v.), (1) comprehension, clear understanding; (spiritual) realization, intuitive grasp (of religious verities), in Pali especially grasp of the Law (dhamma) or the four noble truths (sacca); Tibetan mṅon par rtogs pa, clear com- prehension; compare Stcherbatskoy, Abhisamayālaṃkāra (Bibl. Buddhist 23), p.iii, ‘abhisamaya means direct intuition of the Absolute. Here it means the Path of attaining that in- tuition…a synonym of mārga;’ often in composition with that which is comprehended: dharmābhi° Mahāvastu i.261.19; Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 328.11; Sukhāvatīvyūha 42.16; satyābhi° (as in Pali, above) Bodhisattvabhūmi 38.12; Divyāvadāna 340.8 and 355.20 (in these two saha, preceding satyā°, should be taken as a separate word); Udānavarga xx.2; āryasatyānām abhisamayāya Divyāvadāna 654.26; jñānābhi° Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 34.12; prāpty-abhi° Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 615.17 ff. (on prāpti compare Abhidharmakośa La V-P. ii.179 et passim); yogābhi° Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 12.1; mārgābhi° Lalitavistara 38.5 (realization, intuitive comprehension, of the Path); (śrāvaka-, pratyekabuddha-, and tathāgata-) yānābhi° Mahāvyutpatti 1261-3 (comprehension of the vehicles); of the inferior intuitions or realizations of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas Gaṇḍavyūha 505.15; Daśabhūmikasūtra 62.19; 96.28—29; used absolutely, some- thing like enlightenment or spiritual realization in general, Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 10.12; Daśabhūmikasūtra 63.13; Daśabhūmikasūtra.g. 54(80).10; listed among synonyms of nirvāṇa Mahāvyutpatti 1731; abhisamayāntika (see antika), ending in abhi° (realization? enlightenment? nirvāṇa?) Mahāvyutpatti 1208; 6891; abhisamayādhigamajñāna- Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 218.6, 7 (Suzuki enlightenment = an intuitive under- standing, for abhisamaya); (2) any of the three collective conversions of crowds of disciples, accomplished by Buddha; [Page058-b+ 71] so (and also dhammābhi°) in Pali, see Critical Pali Dictionary: Mahāvastu i.250.16; 251.2.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Abhisamaya (अभिसमय):—[=abhi-samaya] a See abhi-sam-√i.

2) Abhisamāyā (अभिसमाया):—[=abhi-sam-ā-√yā] to approach together, [Mahābhārata v, 1974.]

3) Abhisamaya (अभिसमय):—[=abhi-samaya] [from abhisam-i] b m. agreement, [Caraka]

4) [v.s. ...] clear understanding, [Buddhist literature]

[Sanskrit to German]

Abhisamaya in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), 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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Abhisamaya (अभिसमय) [Also spelled abhisamay]:—(nm) a convention (written agreement).

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