adhimukti

[Stella Sandahl]

I just received this from a student (not on the Indology list) to  
whom I forwarded the adhimukti discussion.

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Stella Sandahl
ssandahl at sympatico.ca



Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Bryanl" <Bryanl at guidelinesad.com>
> Date: July 28, 2009 4:23:49 PM EDT (CA)
> To: "Stella Sandahl" <ssandahl at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: adhimukti
>
> Hi Stella,
>
> The Chinese Buddhists also transliterate adhimukti as a-ti-mu-duo  
> and translate it as shan-si-wie which means "good thinking" or  
> "pious thoughfulness" or "good propensity" which gets closer to the  
> "devotion" meaning the questioner was commenting on,
>
> Bryan
>
> Source: Soothill and Hodous, a Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist terms.
>
>