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Meditation (Dhyāna)
Attention flowing unbroken toward one object — the steady deepening just before absorption.
Dhyāna is meditation in the precise sense: once attention has been fixed on an object (concentration), dhyāna is the steady, unbroken flow of that attention, like oil poured in a continuous thread. It is the seventh of Patañjali's eight limbs, the deepening that ripens into full absorption. The word and the practice radiated far beyond the Yoga school — across the Vedānta traditions and, in its Pali form jhāna and Chinese form chan/zen, into the wider Buddhist world.
How it traveled
- Bhagavad-gītāKuru-Pañcāla region · -150applies
- Yoga-sūtraKāśī (Varanasi) · 375explains
- Gheraṇḍa-saṃhitāKāśī (Varanasi) · 1700explains
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Vijñāna-bhairava 146↗explains
Vijñāna-bhairava · Anonymous (Bhairava Āgama / Tantra)
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 70↗applies
Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)
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