Alternative spellings of this word include Sansthapan.

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: WikiPedia: Mahayana Buddhism

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन) or “continuous placement” refers to one of the “nine mental abidings” (i.e., ‘nine stages of training the mind’) connected with śamatha (“access concentration”), according to Kamalaśīla and the Śrāvakabhūmi section of the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra.—Saṃsthāpana (Tibetan: རྒྱུན་དུ་འཇོག་པ, rgyun-du ‘jog-pa) or “continuous placement” occurs when the practitioner experiences moments of continuous attention on the object before becoming distracted. According to B Alan Wallace, this is when you can maintain your attention on the meditation object for about a minute.

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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.

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (tantric Buddhism)

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन) refers to the “consecration” (of images of deities, etc.), according to the Bhūśalyasūtrapātananimittavidhi section of Jagaddarpaṇa’s Ācāryakriyāsamuccaya, a text within Tantric Buddhism dealing with construction manual for monasteries etc.—Accordingly, “[...] In the consecration of [images of] deities and other [sacred objects] (devādi-saṃsthāpana), [the officiant] should examine the [above-mentioned] omens which bring merits [to the donor] in the commencement of the rite of the casting of cords, and then perform [the casting of cords]. [...]”.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन).—n (S) saṃsthāpanā f (S) The setting up, establishing, appointing (of a king, an idol, a religion &c.)

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन).—n-nā f The setting up, establishing.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन).—1 Placing or keeping together, collecting.

2) Fixing, determining, regulating; कुर्वीत चैषां प्रत्यक्षमर्ध- संस्थापनं नृपः (kurvīta caiṣāṃ pratyakṣamardha- saṃsthāpanaṃ nṛpaḥ) Manusmṛti 8.42.

3) Establishment, confirmation; धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे (dharmasaṃsthāpanārthāya saṃbhavāmi yuge yuge) Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 4.8.

5) Restraining, curbing.

6) A statute, regulation.

-nā 1 Restraining, curbing.

2) A means of calming or composing; संस्था- पना प्रियतरा विरहातुराणाम् (saṃsthā- panā priyatarā virahāturāṇām) Mṛcchakaṭika 3.3.

Derivable forms: saṃsthāpanam (संस्थापनम्).

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

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन).—(nt.; compare Sanskrit id.), determination, defini- tion, establishment (of the Doctrine); Burnouf, démonstration (good!); Kern, exhortation (less likely): °naṃ kurvati Śākyasiṃho bhāṣiṣyate dharmasvabhāvamudrām Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 28.8 (verse). Tibetan yaṅ dag ḥjog, complete arrangement.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन).—n.

(-naṃ) 1. Placing, fixing. 2. Establishing. 3. Collecting. 4. Restraining. f.

(-nā) Restraining, bringing back. E. sam before ṣṭhā to stay, causal v. aff. lyuṭ .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन).—i. e. sam -sthā, [Causal.], + ana, n. 1. Collecting. 2. Placing. 3. Establishing, [Bhagavadgītā, (ed. Schlegel.)] 4, 8; fixing, [Lassen, Anthologia Sanskritica.] 2. ed. 87 14. 4. A regulation, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 8, 402.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन).—[neuter] fixing, establishing, settling; [feminine] ā supporting, comforting.

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

1) Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन):—[=saṃ-sthāpana] [from saṃ-sthāpaka > saṃ-sthā] n. fixing, setting up, raising, erecting, [Mahābhārata; Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā; Suśruta]

2) [v.s. ...] establishment, regulation (cf. argha-s), [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc.

3) Saṃsthāpanā (संस्थापना):—[=saṃ-sthāpanā] [from saṃ-sthāpana > saṃ-sthāpaka > saṃ-sthā] f. comforting, encouraging, [Mṛcchakaṭikā]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन):—[saṃ-sthāpana] (nā-naṃ) 1. f. n. Fixing, establishing.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Saṃṭhāvaṇa, Saṃṭhāvaṇā, Saṃthāvaṇa, Saṃthāvaṇā.

[Sanskrit to German]

Samsthapana 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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Saṃsthāpana (संस्थापन) [Also spelled sansthapan]:—(nm) establish. ment/establishing, founding; ~[panā] establishment, founding; ~[pita] founded, established.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Saṃsthāpana (ಸಂಸ್ಥಾಪನ):—[noun] = ಸಂಸ್ಥಾಪನೆ [samsthapane].

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Sthapana, Sam.

Ends with: Arghasamsthapana, Dharmasamsthapana, Samjnasamsthapana.

Full-text: Santhavana, Arghasamsthapana, Samvasthapana, Samvasthana, Sansthapan, Samsthapanem, Arghasakhyana, Samatha, Lekhya.

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