'adhimukti'

[Richard MAHONEY]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:33:43PM +0200, Vincent Eltschinger wrote:
> Dear Taylor,
> A very highlighting conceptual discussion of adhimukti/adhimok.sa can be
> found in Lambert Schmithausen: Der Nirvaa.na-Abschnitt in der
> Vini'scayasa.mgraha.nii der Yogaacaarabhuumi.h, Vienna 1969, pp. 179-180
> (= endnote 263). As for the term adhimukticaryaa, your colleague is
> certainly aware of the fact that it designates a pre-stage (but actually
> already a bhuumi) in the system of the bodhisattvabhuumi-s. Although the
> book is not availabe to me at the present moment, I guess some semantic
> informations might be found in Har Dayal's classic work on the Bodhisattva
> doctrine in Buddhism.
> With best regards,
> Vincent E.

Your colleague may also find it helpful to have a look at the various
permutations of adhi-muc found in the YBh &c. here:

 IeB :: Lexica Search (Legacy)
 http://lexica.indica-et-buddhica.org/dict/lexica-legacy

Initially I would search for:

Term: adhimuc*

Search strategy: POSIX 1003.2 (modern) regular expressions

Database: Any 


(All of these databases are available for download.)


The various definitions and references available through the following
may also help (also available as a download for off line use): 

 THL Tibetan to English Translation Tool
 http://www.thlib.org/reference/translation-tool/



Kind regards,

 Richard


 
> > Dear friends
> >
> > A colleague, Ruth Gamble, has posted me this question:
> >
> > "The word is adhimukti [mos pa or mos gus in Tibetan].  In one of the
> > poems I am looking at it is used in conjunction with spyod pa, or carya
> > -- adhimukticarya...  adhi [above, over, on] and mukti is liberation,
> > right?  So why does the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon list the
> > meaning for adhimukti as "propensity, confidence"?  And, more
> > intriguingly, why do you think most Tibetan translators translate mos
> > pa/mos gus as "devotion"?"
> >
> > A can anyone cast any light on why adhimukti might mean 'propensity,
> > confidence'?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > McComas
> >
> 

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