Samadhiraja, Samādhirāja: 6 definitions

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Samadhiraja means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

[«previous next»] — Samadhiraja in Mahayana glossary
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Samādhirāja (समाधिराज) refers to the “royal concentrations (of the Buddhas)”, according to  the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 40.—Accordingly: The Buddha utters the lion’s roar. He is like the king of the lions (siṃharāja). [...] The Buddha-lion is very similar. [...] The ten powers are his enormous strength. The collection of the pure dharmas is his perfect body. The royal concentrations (samādhirāja) of the Buddhas are the den out of which he comes. It is with the four unhindered knowledges that he stretches out. It is on the earth of the dharmas that he strikes the paw of his unhindered liberations. [...]

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (mahayana)

Samādhirāja (समाधिराज) refers to one of the Navadharma (“collection of nine texts”) employed for ritualistic practices in Kathmandu Valley, in the era of Mahindra Vira Vikram Shah (r. 1955–1972).—Cf. Tuladhar–Douglas 2006, 144–147 and von Rospatt 2015, 819–821. The latter remarks that “these canonical works are not so much studied for their content as liturgically recited or put to other ritual uses”.

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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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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: OSU Press: Cakrasamvara Samadhi

Samādhirāja (समाधिराज) is the name of a deity [i.e., oṃ samādhirājāya svāhā], according to the Guru Mandala Worship (maṇḍalārcana) ritual often performed in combination with the Cakrasaṃvara Samādhi, which refers to the primary pūjā and sādhanā practice of Newah Mahāyāna-Vajrayāna Buddhists in Nepal.—

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Samadhiraja in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Samādhirāja (समाधिराज).—m., name of a work = our Samādhirājasūtra: Mahāvyutpatti 1332; Samādhirājasūtra 19.5; in Śikṣāsamuccaya called Candrapradīpa- sūtra, q.v. (The long list of Buddhas in Chap. 14, p. 56 line 32—58 line 19, is only partly excerpted, thru p. 57 line 25, in this Dict.; few of them occur elsewhere and the text of the Calcutta ed. is very corrupt.)

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

Samādhirāja (समाधिराज):—[=sam-ādhi-rāja] [from sam-ādhi > samā-dhā] m. Name of [work]

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Samadhiraja 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.

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