【英汉对照佛学词典】


(1) Establish, decide, lay down, stipulate, determine, fix, settle, arrange. (2) Be decided, be settled, be certain. Certainly, certainty. (3) Law, rule, regulation. (4) (dhya^na) 'Meditation,' 'concentration.' In the doctrine of the Faxiang school, it is one of the 'environment dependent' (别境) mental action elements. This ideograph is often used interchangeably with 止 (zhi) (/samatha). (5) The unification of the mind in concentration; stopping the floating of the mind and concentrating on one point. (5) Sama^dhi 三昧, like dhya^na, a term for meditation, but especially indicative of a deep level of concentration.