[Buddha-l] sagaramudra samadhi

[M.B. Schiekel]

Dan Lusthaus schrieb:

> sāgara-mudrā-samādhi is an attested Skt term (even appears in
> Monier-Williams Skt-Eng Dictionary). It's used in the Prajnaparamita Sutras
> and elsewhere.


Dear Dan,

thank you for your helpful answer.

Now I'm looking for the origins of this sāgara-mudrā-samādhi in Sanskrit 
sources. I found this samādhi in Monier-Williams (as you said) and in 
Soothill, but a scan in the Sanskritcanon of 
http://www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon/  resulted in no hits.

A friend of mine (Ralf Boeck) did find in the 
Astasahasrika-Prajnaparamitasutra:
- 46. samâdhi: sarvadharmavibhavamudrA nAma samAdhi
- 47. samâdhi: sarvadharmavibhavasamudro nAma samAdhi
       with "samudro = ocean", but also "samudro = sealed"!

Obviously there are many occurences of hǎiyìn sānmèi, 海印三昧, in the 
Avatamsaka-sutra, but until now, I have no hint of this 
sāgara-mudrā-samādhi in any early Sanskrit-text. Did anyone here has 
seen this mysterious samâdhi anywhere :-) ?

Thank you very much,
in metta,
bernhard

-- 
http://www.mb-schiekel.de/
GPG-Key available: GnuPG-1.4.2