dpyad sgom

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Glossarydpyad sgom

Tibetan Noun

dpyad sgom

analytical meditation
དཔྱད་སྒོམ་

Basic Meaning

Analytical meditation is a technique involving critical analysis that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation, such as impermanence.

Simplified English Usage

"Furthermore, broadly speaking, if [we look at this] from the perspective of the use of the terms “analysis” and “resting,” meditations that involve critical investigation must be considered analytical meditation, and meditations during which we settle into the natural state and rest must be resting meditation." (Dakpo Tashi Namgyal, Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā, Elizabeth Callahan translation, 89)

Read It in the Scriptures

If you discriminate that phenomena are identityless

And meditate by discriminating them in this way,
This is the cause for the result of attaining nirvāṇa.

Peace will not come about through any other cause.
 
~ pp 273, Brunnhölzl, Karl, The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition. Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004.
Term Variations
Key Term dpyad sgom
Topic Variation analytical meditation
Tibetan དཔྱད་སྒོམ་  ( che gom)
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration dpyad sgom  ( che gom)
Buddha-nature Site Standard English analytical meditation
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term analytical meditation
Richard Barron's English Term investigative meditation
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term analytical meditation
Ives Waldo's English Term analytical investigation
Term Information
Source Language Tibetan
Basic Meaning Analytical meditation is a technique involving critical analysis that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation, such as impermanence.
Term Type Noun
Definitions
Tshig mdzod Chen mo stong nyid sgom pa'i tshul zhig ste/ bdag med pa'i don la shes rab kyis so sor dpyad nas spros pa thams cad dang bral ba'i dbyings su mnyam par 'jog pa'o/