Samadhipratilabdha, Samādhipratilabdha, Samadhi-pratilabdha: 1 definition

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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

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

Samādhipratilabdha (समाधिप्रतिलब्ध) refers to “obtaining the concentration”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “How then, son of good family, does the Bodhisattva become unattached to all thoughts and deeds of living beings when he obtains the concentration called the ocean-seal (sāgaramudrā-samādhipratilabdha)? Son of good family, as many as features of living beings appear in the Jambudvipa World, the seal which is like all of them reflects in the great ocean, thus it is called the great ocean. In the same way, as many as there are the appearance of thoughts, the appearance of forms, or the appearance of sounds, all those reflect in a single appearance of the Bodhisattva who maintains the ocean-seal samādhi, thus it is called the ocean-seal samādhi. [...]”.

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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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