…of tranquillity samatha-bhāvanā, i.e. concentration samādhi, and development of insight vipassanā - bhāvanā, i.e. understanding…

…- kammatthāna; see. bhāvanā. In the Girimananda Sutta A. X., 50, however, the perception of impurity asubha - saññā refers to…

Bhāvanā-bala: see: patisankhāna-bala

Bhāvanā-maya-paññā: understanding based on mental development’; see: paññā

…brahma - vihāra - bhāvanā bhāvanā often met with in the Suttas,- is as follows: ’There, o Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu with a mind full…

…- kammatthāna see. bhāvanā Often also the 4 immaterial spheres arūpāyatana are called absorptions of the immaterial sphere…

…- padhāna 3 to develop bhāvanā - padhāna 4 to maintain anurakkhana - padhāna i.e. 1 the effort to avoid disadvantageous akusala…

…and Bhāvanā-bala: ‘power of reflection’, and ‘power of mental development’. About these 2 powers it is said in A. II,…

…based on mental development bhāvanā - mayā - paññā D. 33.

‘Based on thinking’ is that knowledge which one has accquired through…

…development meditation; bhāvanā - maya - p. See D. 33; It. 60; expl. in A. VIII, 36.

Commentaries have a list of ten dasa p which…

Tranquillity: of mind: see: samatha, samatha - vipassanā, bhāvanā, bojjhanga - ‘One who has taken t. as his vehicle’: samathayānika