samApatti · feminine · samāpatti 1
samāpatti , f. , primarily (as in Skt. ) attainment (to samāpadyate , Skt. and BHS ); esp. used (as in Pali ) of the attainment of the nine successive anupūrvavihāra ( q.v. for list) or ‘successive states induced by the ecstatic meditation’ ( Childers , who lists only eight, as sometimes in Pali ; add as ninth [saññāvedayita-] nirodha-sam°); these states are also called samādhi ; navānupūrvasamādhi-samāpattayaḥ Dharmas 82 clearly = attainment of the nine successive samādhi ; so also Laṅk 100.9 samādhisamāpatty-adhiṣṭhānena, see adhiṣṭhāna ; and in some other such cpds. But from this old association, in Pali and BHS alike, the attainment comes to mean the state attained , viz. one of the above nine (in Pali sometimes only eight, the nirodha-sa° being omitted) ‘modes of abstract meditation’ ( Hardy ap. Childers ), or recueillements , LaV-P. in AbhidhK , see esp. viii.182 n. 4 for a report of discordant Buddhist attempts to distinguish between samādhi and samāpatti . The fact seems to be that these two words are fundamentally and substantially identical in mg. , and that the attempts to differentiate are scholastic pedantry. They are however used in dvandva cpds. , sometimes with dhyāna too (note that the 4 dhyāna are included in the 9 samāpatti): dhyāna-samādhi-°ttīnāṃ LV 244.3 , Tib. bsam gtan (dhyāna) daṅ tiṅ ṅe ḥdzin (samādhi) daṅ sñom par ḥjug pa , as a three-member dvandva. This is the regular Tib. rendering of samāpatti, [Page570-a] entering ( ḥjug pa ) into equanimity, evenness or calmness of mind ( sñom par ). This Tib. expression is, however, not always parallel with tiṅ ṅe ḥdzin = samādhi, which may depend upon it, as in LV 3.11 where samādhiṃ samāpanno 'bhūt, containing the cognate ppp. , is rendered tiṅ ṅe ḥdzin la sñoms par zhugs par gyur to , arrived at equanimity-entrance into samādhi , or at entrance into equanimity (leading) to samādhi . Mvy 1491—1502 contains eleven (in Mironov only ten, 1499 being omitted) miscellaneous and unsystematic ‘ names of (various sorts of) samāpatti ’; 1492—5 are brief statements of the ārūpyasamā° (see ārūpya for other citations); the others are vyutkrāntaka-sa°, vyāskandaka-sa° , (nava-) anupūrvavihārasa°, samāpatti-skandhaḥ ( om. Mironov ), nirodha- (more fully saṃjñāvedayita-nirodha- ) sa°, mahābhūtasamatāsādhanam , and asaṃjñā-sa° , qq.v. ; (bodhisattvasya … sarvasamādhiparicayaviśeṣeṇa ca dhyānapramukhāni) sarvāṇi laukikāni lokottarāṇi samāpatti-śatāny āmukhībhavanti sma LV 244.21 ( attainments , or more specifically abstract meditations, trances, recueillements ? Tib. sñoms par ḥjug pa ); in many other occurrences, like the last, I find it hard to draw a line between the two shades of mg. ; (mārgo yas tvayā parigṛhītaḥ) samādhi-kauśala-samāpattyā Laṅk 11.1 ; sukhasamādhi-samāpatti-vihāras 12.7 ; (indriyabala-bodhyaṅga-dhyāna-vimokṣa-)-samādhi-samāpattibhiś ca mahatīṃ ratiṃ pratyanubhaviṣyatha SP 80.2 ; dhyānavimokṣa-samādhi-samāpattīr ( acc. pl. ) 82.2 ; etc. See also next items.
attainment; an enjoying stage of meditation
Samāpatti (feminine) [from saṃ + ā + pad] attainment A III 5; S II 150 f.; IV 293 (saññā-vedayita-nirodha°); Dhs 30 = 101; a stage of meditation A I 94; Dhs 1331; Ja I 343, 473; Pv-a 61 (mahā-karuṇā°); Nidd I 100, 106, 139, 143; the Buddha acquired anekakoṭisata-sahassā s. Ja I 77. The eight attainments comprise the four Jhānas, the realm of the infinity of space, realm of the infinity of consciousness, realm of nothingness, realm of neither consciousness nor unconsciousness Paṭis I 8, 20 f.; Nidd I 108, 328; Bv II B 192 = Ja I 28, 54; necessary for becoming a Buddha Ja I 14; acquired by the Buddha Ja I 66; the nine attainments, the preceding and the trance of cessation of perception and sensation S II 216, 222; described M I 159 f. etc.; otherwise called anupubbavihārā D II 156; A IV 410, 448 and passim [cf. Divy 95 etc.]. — In collocation with jhāna, vimokkha, and samādhi Vin I 97; A III 417 f.; cf. Cpd. 59, 133 note 3. — °bhāvanā realizing the attainments Ja I 67; °kusalatā success in attainment D III 212; Dhs 1331 f.
(fem, fem, abstr, from samāpajjati) attainment; meditation attainment attainment, enjoying stage of meditation Construction: saṃ + ā + √pad + ti
(fem, fem, abstr, from samāpajjati) doing; perpetration; committing (of) Construction: saṃ + ā + √pad + ti