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,
Peace will not come about through any other cause.
This is the cause for the result of attaining nirvāṇa.
~ 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/ |
