Samanantarapratyaya, Samanantara-pratyaya: 2 definitions
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Samanantarapratyaya 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)
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita SastraSamanantarapratyaya (समनन्तरप्रत्यय) refers to the “antecedent equal and immediate condition” and represents one of the four kinds of pratyaya (conditions) according to the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter XXVIII).
Samanantarapratyaya (the immediately preceding condition) according to chapter XLIX.—If one accepts the last mind and the last mental events, past (atīta) as well as present (pratyutpanna), of the Arhat at the moment of nirvāṇa, all the other minds-and-mental-events, past or present, play the role of antecedent with respect to the minds-and-mental-events that follow them and are called immediately preceding condition (samanantarapratyaya).
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
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionarySamanantarapratyaya (समनन्तरप्रत्यय).—see pratyaya (1).
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Pratyaya, Samanantara.
Full-text: Pratyaya, Samskritadharma.
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The Buddhist Philosophy of Universal Flux (by Satkari Mookerjee)
Chapter XIX - Mano-vijñāna or Mental Perception < [Part II - Logic and Epistemology]
Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya) (by George Thibaut)
II, 2, 21 < [Second Adhyāya, Second Pāda]
Reverberations of Dharmakirti’s Philosophy (by Birgit Kellner)
Balancing the Scales: Dharmakīrti Inside and Out
Maṇḍana Miśra’s Excursus on the Buddha’s Omniscience
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
II. Objections against the efficacy of the conditions < [Part 1 - Understanding the Conditions (pratyaya)]
I. The four conditions (pratyaya) and the six causes (hetu) < [Part 1 - Understanding the Conditions (pratyaya)]
III.a Causality according to the Abhidharma < [Part 1 - Understanding the Conditions (pratyaya)]
A comparative study between Buddhism and Nyaya (by Roberta Pamio)
3.2. Epistemology of Vaibhāṣika and Sautrāntika < [Chapter 2 - The Four Buddhist Schools of Philosophy]
Nirvikalpaka Pratyaksha (study) (by Sujit Roy)