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

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Anupaśyanā (अनुपश्यना, “contemplations”) according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XVI).—

Among ordinary people (pṛthagjana), there are three kinds of contemplations (anupaśyanā). To try to escape from desire (kāma) and form (rūpa), they contemplate the coarseness (pāruṣya), deceitfulness (vañcana) and corruption (kaṣāya) of the desire realm (kāmadhātu) and the form realm (rūpadhātu).

Among the Buddha’s disciples, there are eight kinds of contemplations (anupaśyanā): for them, everything is impermanent (anitya), suffering (duḥkha), empty (śūnya), egoless (anātmaka), like a sickness (roga), an ulcer (gaṇḍa), like an arrow (śalya) stuck in one’s body, like an agony (agha).

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

Anupaśyanā (अनुपश्यना) 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-anupaśyanā), 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 sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Anupaśyanā (अनुपश्यना).—(= Pali °passanā), viewing, considera- [Page030-a+ 71] tion: Śikṣāsamuccaya 232.7; 236.13; Kāśyapa Parivarta 95.2 ff.; Bodhisattvabhūmi 259.21 ff.; in all these in statements of the smṛtyupasthāna, q.v.

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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.

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Ends with: Dharmanupashyana, Kayanupashyana.

Full-text: Anudarsha, Vancana, Anitya, Roga, Shunya, Shalya, Ganda, Agha, Anatmaka, Apashyana, Samyakpradhana, Kashaya, Duhkha, Parushya.

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