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I added some notes today in an attempt support some of these article's existing statements. I also did two things that I think are more questionable and that I want to thus identify here:
Thanks for any help! With metta, Larry Rosenfeld ( talk) 05:28, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi folks. User: 24.225.75.12 has removed references to Nyanatiloka. To that user I would like to explain that Nyanatiloka was one of the most eminent scholars of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century. His work is considered authoritative. With respect to the reference to Monier-Williams it should be borne in mind that this article is concerned with bhavana as understood in the context of Theravada Buddhism whose terminology is in Pali. Though closely related, Sanskrit equivalents to Pali often have different meanings. The only reason I would like to improve this article is because Bhavana is a very important term in the teaching of the Buddha and there appears to be a degree of confusion with respect to its precise definition. As a published editor in the sphere of Theravada Buddhist education i would like to give my word that I 'know what I'm taking about'. I only want to enhance and clarify the existing definition. Many thanks. 81.109.10.218 ( talk) 21:15, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
With this edit a reversion was made to wrong info, as far as I can see. Samadhi is concentration; "tranquil-wisdom" refers to vipassana. Same for absorbed concentration: that's not about "the present moment", but about fixation on an object. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 04:55, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I'd like to recommend that Glenn Wallis' quote be removed or at at least made less prominent. His idea, that bhāvanā is closely related to the metaphor of agriculture, has no citation in his work, and Wallis claims no more basis than his own imagination. It's a nice bit of poetry, but it's misleading to pretend that it's a serious explanation of the word. Bhū is the most fertile root in Pali, and by the time of the Buddha its derivatives have long lost any concrete metaphorical associations.
Neither the Pali nor Sanskrit dictionaries list any such usage:
https://suttacentral.net/define/bh%C4%81van%C4%81
http://sanskritdictionary.com/?iencoding=iast&q=bh%C4%81van%C4%81&lang=sans&action=Search
With such a common term, surely it is possible to quote an actual authority. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.144.111.186 ( talk) 23:23, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
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I added some notes today in an attempt support some of these article's existing statements. I also did two things that I think are more questionable and that I want to thus identify here:
Thanks for any help! With metta, Larry Rosenfeld ( talk) 05:28, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi folks. User: 24.225.75.12 has removed references to Nyanatiloka. To that user I would like to explain that Nyanatiloka was one of the most eminent scholars of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century. His work is considered authoritative. With respect to the reference to Monier-Williams it should be borne in mind that this article is concerned with bhavana as understood in the context of Theravada Buddhism whose terminology is in Pali. Though closely related, Sanskrit equivalents to Pali often have different meanings. The only reason I would like to improve this article is because Bhavana is a very important term in the teaching of the Buddha and there appears to be a degree of confusion with respect to its precise definition. As a published editor in the sphere of Theravada Buddhist education i would like to give my word that I 'know what I'm taking about'. I only want to enhance and clarify the existing definition. Many thanks. 81.109.10.218 ( talk) 21:15, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
With this edit a reversion was made to wrong info, as far as I can see. Samadhi is concentration; "tranquil-wisdom" refers to vipassana. Same for absorbed concentration: that's not about "the present moment", but about fixation on an object. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 04:55, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I'd like to recommend that Glenn Wallis' quote be removed or at at least made less prominent. His idea, that bhāvanā is closely related to the metaphor of agriculture, has no citation in his work, and Wallis claims no more basis than his own imagination. It's a nice bit of poetry, but it's misleading to pretend that it's a serious explanation of the word. Bhū is the most fertile root in Pali, and by the time of the Buddha its derivatives have long lost any concrete metaphorical associations.
Neither the Pali nor Sanskrit dictionaries list any such usage:
https://suttacentral.net/define/bh%C4%81van%C4%81
http://sanskritdictionary.com/?iencoding=iast&q=bh%C4%81van%C4%81&lang=sans&action=Search
With such a common term, surely it is possible to quote an actual authority. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.144.111.186 ( talk) 23:23, 30 January 2020 (UTC)