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'''Concentration''' (Skt. ''samādhi''; Tib. [[ཏིང་འཛིན་]], Wyl. ''ting ‘dzin'') — one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature. According to the [[Compendium of Abhidharma]], it belongs to the subgroup of the [[Five object-determining mental states]].  
'''Concentration''' (Skt. ''samādhi''; Tib. [[ཏིང་འཛིན་]], ''tingdzin'', [[Wyl.]] ''ting ‘dzin'') — one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature. According to the ''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]'', it belongs to the subgroup of the [[five object-determining mental states]].  


==Definitions==
==Definitions==
In the [[Khenjuk]], [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says
In the ''[[Khenjuk]]'', [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says:
(Tib. ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ནི་བརྟག་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ལ་སེམས་རྩེ་གཅིག་པ་ཤེས་པའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།)<br/>
*Tib. ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ནི་བརྟག་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ལ་སེམས་རྩེ་གཅིག་པ་ཤེས་པའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
*Concentration is to have a one-pointed mind with regard to the examined [[entity]]. Its function is to support [correct] cognition. ([[▷RIGPA]])
*Concentration is to have a one-pointed mind with regard to the examined [[entity]]. Its function is to support [correct] cognition. ([[Rigpa Translations]])
*Concentration means to have one-pointed mind with regard to the examined object. Its function is to support [right] cognition.([[Erik Pema Kunsang]])
*Concentration means to have one-pointed mind with regard to the examined object. Its function is to support [right] cognition.([[Erik Pema Kunsang]])


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==
*Meditative stabil­ity (Gyurme Dorje))
*Meditative stabil­ity (Gyurme Dorje))
*samādhi or concentration (Tony Duff<ref>Tony Duff: The Tibetan tradition glosses the term as follows:"'dzin pa to adhere ting nge deeply and precisely to the intended (i.e., correct)" object of the mind. The term has been translated in many different ways, e.g., "concentration", "deep concentration", "meditative absorbtion", "stabilization", and others. "Concentration" is most appropriate given the definition and usage of the term. The word "meditative" seems unnecessary. "Trance" is a samādhi but "samādhi" is not a trance, likewise "absorbtion" might be a samādhi but a samādhi is not necessarily an absorbtion, so these words seem incorrect. Furthermore, "absorbtion" is better suited to the meaning of other terms, such as {{snyoms 'jug}} samāpatti and dhyāna.
*samādhi or concentration (Tony Duff)
 
==Further reading==
*[[Patrul Rinpoche]], ''[[The Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'' (Yale University Press, Revised edition, 2010). ISBN 978-0300165326, pages 248-251
*[[Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang]], ''[[A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'', translated by Padmakara Translation Group (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2004), ISBN 978-1590300732, pages 196-204


==Notes==
==Notes==
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[[Category:Fifty-one mental states]]
[[Category:Fifty-one mental states]]
[[Category:Five object-determining mental states]]
[[Category:Five object-determining mental states]]
[[Meditative concentration]]

Latest revision as of 11:55, 22 October 2020

Concentration (Skt. samādhi; Tib. ཏིང་འཛིན་, tingdzin, Wyl. ting ‘dzin) — one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature. According to the Compendium of Abhidharma, it belongs to the subgroup of the five object-determining mental states.

Definitions

In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:

  • Tib. ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ནི་བརྟག་པའི་དངོས་པོ་ལ་སེམས་རྩེ་གཅིག་པ་ཤེས་པའི་རྟེན་བྱེད་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
  • Concentration is to have a one-pointed mind with regard to the examined entity. Its function is to support [correct] cognition. (Rigpa Translations)
  • Concentration means to have one-pointed mind with regard to the examined object. Its function is to support [right] cognition.(Erik Pema Kunsang)

Alternative Translations

  • Meditative stabil­ity (Gyurme Dorje))
  • samādhi or concentration (Tony Duff)

Further reading

Notes