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The two terms vitakka/vitarka and vicdra are crucial to the understanding of the stages of samddhi in both the Buddhist tradition and in the influential yoga tradition attributed to Patafijali. However, at present interpretation is often dominated by notions derived from later commentarial sources. Such notions, although in themselves of great interest, create an artificial appearance of difference between the two traditions which is probably unjustified. It suffices to note the marked difference in English renderings of these two words in translations from Sanskrit and from Pali. This is exacerbated by the, no doubt inevitable, tendency to treat the Buddhist and Brahmanical traditions as if they operated in complete isolation from one another. In fact it is clear that each has both influenced and been influenced by the other in numerous ways. Buddhist origins are obviously from a milieu in which both orthodox and heterodox Brahmanical ideas and practices were ubiquitous. Not surprisingly influences from and reactions to Vedic traditions pervade the early Buddhist texts. Subsequently, after Buddhism's rapid growth and early creative period, influences are for a while mainly, but no

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Author

L. S. COUSINS

Publisher

Brill (ISSN 0019-7246)

Published

1992

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)