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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Pratisaṃlayana (प्रतिसंलयन) refers to “solitary meditation”, according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter 41).—Accordingly, “[The eighteen āveṇika-dharmas (‘special attributes’)]— [...] (6). The Buddha has no unconsidered equanimity.—He has no unconsidered equanimity.—[...] Furthermore, when the Buddha finished preaching the Dharma, he always advised the Bhikṣus to practice solitary meditation (pratisaṃlayana) in the manner of having no regret (paścāttāpa) and, as he himself applied the advice that he gave (kaṇṭhokta), he entered into concentration. Furthermore, he disliked homage (pūjā) but, when he knew there were beings to be converted (vaineya), he entered into concentration and created fictive beings (nirmitapuruṣa) to come to save them. [...]”.

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

Pratisaṃlayana (प्रतिसंलयन) refers to “meditative absorption”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “How, son of good family, does the meditation (dhyāna) of the Bodhisattva become like open space? Son of good family, the meditation of the Bodhisattva becomes like the expanse of the sky when he is endowed with the four dharmas. [...] To wit, (1) even if his thought is still during in the meditative absorption (pratisaṃlayana), he does not make it as an object of particular reflection; (2) while turning back the thought from outside, the external thought is still in activity, but he has no conception of it; (3) by the sameness of his own thoughts he enters into concentration on the universal sameness of the thoughts of all beings; (4) and that the sameness of the thoughts is the entering into concentration on the sameness of all dharmas being like an illusion”.

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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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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pratisaṃlayana (प्रतिसंलयन).—Complele retirement.

Derivable forms: pratisaṃlayanam (प्रतिसंलयनम्).

See also (synonyms): pratisaṃlīna.

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

Pratisaṃlayana (प्रतिसंलयन).—(see also atisaṃlayana), nt. (m. according to Mahāvyutpatti 1488; to prec.; = Pali paṭisallāna), = prati- saṃlāna: °naḥ Mahāvyutpatti 1488, as a type of dhyāna; °nam Mahāvyutpatti 1642, as a yogāṅga; vihāraṃ praviṣṭaḥ °layanāya Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 182.2-3; Divyāvadāna 156.2; 494.1; °layanād vyutthāya, coming out from (meditative) seclusion, Mahāvastu i.231.3; 317.7; iii.225.15; Divyāvadāna 197.1; Avadāna-śataka i.187.6; 242.11, etc.; °layana- guruka Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 340.2 (on Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 277.9—10 see next); (ayaṃ kālo dharmadeśanāyā) ayaṃ kālaḥ °layanasya Lalitavistara 161.10; niṣīde (aor.) °layanāya Mahāvastu iii.429.1; °layana-sārūpya, also °pyaka and °sāropya, qq.v., suitable for private meditation (Pali paṭisallāna-sāruppa), said of āśrama-pada, śayyāsana (śayanāsana), and the like: Mahāvastu ii.123.18, read °layana- (so v.l.) -sārūpyāṇi with Senart's Index (wrongly ii.519 note); iii.143.13 and 200.17 (°sāropya); Bodhisattvabhūmi 8.25 (°sārūpyaka); in similar passage Lalitavistara 248.11 bhūmipradeśo …pratisaṃlayanānurūpaḥ; °layanam (text printed °la- panam) appears to be associated with the lower methods of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas in Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 236.4.

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

1) Pratisaṃlayana (प्रतिसंलयन):—[=prati-saṃ-layana] n. (√lī) retirement into a lonely place, privacy, [Lalita-vistara; Divyāvadāna]

2) [v.s. ...] complete absorption, [Saddharma-puṇḍarīka]

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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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Partial matches: Prati, Samlayana.

Full-text: Samlayana, Pratisamlina, Sarupyaka, Sarupya, Patisallana, Nirmitapurusha, Pashcattapa, Kanthokta, Guruka, Li.

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