[Buddha-l] Jhanas in Mahayana & Tibetan

[L.S. Cousins]

  Brad,

This is surprising. As far as I know, the term arūpa(j)jhāna is found 
only once in a doubtful location in the Pali Canon. It is quite common 
in the Pali commentaries but I do not know the equivalent in surviving 
Sanskrit texts. Does anyone ?

In the Canon we find the four arūpa samāpatti and also the āruppā with 
or without vimokkhā. These terms continue in use and their equivalents 
are used in Sanskrit.

Lance

> According to Nyanatiloka's Buddhist Dictionary,  the four immaterial spheres (aruupaayatana) are often called aruupa-jjhaana pr aruupaavacara-jjhaana in the suttas.
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> Brad
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