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विदर्शन (vidarzana)

 
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
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vidarśana, nt., and °nā (AMg. vidarisaṇa, and with caus. mg. vidaṃsana
to Skt. vi-darś- plus -ana),
(1) °nā, insight, vision, lit. and fig.
in this mg. app. always fem., and often assoc. with samatha, or śam°, replacing more usual vipaśyanā: samatha-(so, or śam°, read with v.l. and Tib.)-vidarśanā-suviśuddha-nayanasya (bodhisattvasya) LV 〔9.6〕 = Tib. zhi gnas (śamatha) daṅ lhag mthoṅ (wide vision) etc., with eye well purified in (or by) tranquillity and insight (vision)
°nā-saṃbhāro dharmālokamukhaṃ 〔35.15〕
-samatha-(so with v.l., = śam°)-°nāloka-(°nā plus āloka)-prāpta(ḥ) 〔426.8〕
samatha-°nā-paripūrṇa-saṃbhāra(ḥ) 〔427.22〕
°nā-saṃbhāraṃ paripūrayiṣyati 〔441.6〕 (cf. samatha-saṃbh° parip° 5)
śukla-°nā-bhūmiḥ (one of the śrāvaka-bh°) Mvy 〔1141〕 (Tib. rnam par mthoṅ ba), clear insight
°nayā prativipaśyataḥ Laṅk 〔19.2〕
(2) °na, nt., with caus. mg., display, making to appear (by magic): Bbh 〔58.23〕
defined 〔59.20 ff.〕 as magical display, by a Buddha or Bodhisattva, of various edifying visions to an assembly
one kind of dhyāna is (pāpakāriṇām) apāyabhūmi-vidarśanaṃ dhyānaṃ Bbh 〔210.7〕.
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१) निदर्शन २) प्रतिविपश्यत् ३) विदर्शन ४) विपश्यना