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samādhi

Works in 12 traditions beyond Indian attest this concept, on 3,036 cited pages. Translators have rendered it as “ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་”, “ting nge 'dzin”, “tingdzin”, “ting-nge-dzin” and 7 other ways; a link through a rendering is marked as such, because another translator chose differently.

Also under: samadhi · samadhis · “ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་” · “ting nge 'dzin” · “tingdzin” · “ting-nge-dzin” · “ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན” · “ting 'dzin” · “ting-nge-'dzin” · “ting-dzin” · “meditative absorption” · “meditative concentration” · “ting nge dzin”

101works in other traditions, with a cited page
70works in Indian, its home tradition on the maps
37further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
5judged 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 samādhi; each carries the reviewer’s confidence and reason.

  • dhyāna Indian85%glossed 'Meditation/Zen'; dhyana is the adjacent limb that precedes samadhi and is distinguished from it in the same texts
  • śamatha Buddhist85%distinct Buddhist concept (meditative absorption), routinely contrasted with calm abiding (judged from the other side)
  • hesychia Byzantine & Orthodox70%Sanskrit 'deep meditative absorption' — a different tradition's distinct concept, adjacent under the meditation theme. (judged from the other side)
  • lectio divina Medieval Latin60%glossed 'meditative absorption'/'equanimity' — a distinct Indic technical term, not a Latin reading practice (judged from the other side)
  • jingzuo Chinese50%Sanskrit absorption/'equanimity, perceptual focus' per evidence; adjacent, not jingzuo (judged from the other side)

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.

Zoroastrianfrom 1000 BCE · 2 works

Buddhistfrom 400 BCE · 31 works

Chinesefrom 350 BCE · 11 works

Korean & Vietnamesefrom 686 CE · 4 works

Tibetanfrom 1050 · 28 works

Persianfrom 1657 · 1 work

Theosophical & Modern Esotericfrom 1883 · 13 works

At home in Indian

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.