Ideas across traditions · meditation · Chinese

jingzuo

Works in 0 traditions beyond Chinese attest this concept, on 0 cited pages. Translators have rendered it as “quiet sitting”, “quiet-sitting”; a link through a rendering is marked as such, because another translator chose differently.

Also under: 靜坐 · “quiet sitting” · “quiet-sitting”

0works in other traditions, with a cited page
0works in Chinese, its home tradition on the maps
3further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
2judged analogues in other traditions (a different word for a neighbouring idea)

Analogues, judged

A different word, in another tradition, that a reviewer judged to name a neighbouring idea. These are not attestations of jingzuo; each carries the reviewer’s confidence and reason.

  • dhyāna Indian55%Sanskrit Buddhist absorption glossed 'Meditation/Zen'; adjacent practice, not the Neo-Confucian quiet-sitting term
  • samādhi Indian50%Sanskrit absorption/'equanimity, perceptual focus' per evidence; adjacent, not jingzuo

In other traditions

Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.

No work outside Chinese on the four maps attests this concept behind the evidence gate.

At home in Chinese

No work labelled Chinese on the four maps attests it behind the gate; the concept’s own tradition may be under-mapped, or its home works are held only in vocabulary lists.

Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.