Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

erroneous comparisons between definitions which they
imagined to be similar regarding the meanings of
sunyata in Prajnaparamita and the esoteric meanings in
Anuttarayoga. In this they were quite wrong. Please see
my work entitled "Discriminations between Buddhist
and Hindu Tantras.")
B. SOME TERMS CONCERNING THE PROCESS
OF MEDITATION
In the West, many words are used as translations of the
technical Buddhist terminology, the most common
being "concentration" and "meditation." Generally, in
Chinese works, the equivalent of the first is used for
"dhyana" and of the second, for "samadhi." In most
people's minds there is no clear distinction between
these two English words and with them are mixed
"absorption" and "contemplation"; in addition, they do
not know the difference between dhyana and samadhi.
Bhante here remarked that such confusion is not
surprising, as in Europe, every philosopher ascribes
his own meaning to the terms he uses, which can be
very confusing unless one distinguishes carefully.
Now it is the same with translators and writers of
books on Buddhism: there is not yet, as grew up in
China and Tibet, a recognized list of equivalences,
so they use their own terminology, a difficulty for
beginners who may be confused by this. In the
Buddhist Sanskrit and Pali tradition, it is quite
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