Meditation Attitude (Buddhism) ( Khmer: ព្រះពុទ្ធសម្មាធិ, ''preah pud (buddha) samathi'', th, ปางสมาธิ; ), also known as meditating Buddha, is an attitude of Buddha in Thai, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, and other Buddhist countries' art, of which the seated Buddha rests both upturned hands on his lap, the right hand usually on top. His eyes are closed. The attitude refers to an episode where he reached enlightenment,

meditating Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm ...

in this posture under the Bodhi tree. Other names in Thai are "reaching enlightenment attitude" (ปางตรัสรู้; ''paang trassaruu'') or the "first attitude" (ปฐมปาง; ''pathom paang''). The attitude has another version called "Diamond Mediation attitude" (ปางขัดสมาธิเพชร; ''paang kud sa ma thi petch''), in which the position of his feet differs from this one. Not to be confused with the other common seated Buddha called ''

maravijaya attitude Māravijaya attitude or ''mara vichai'' ( th, ปางมารวิชัย, ; Khmer language, Khmer: ព្រះពុទ្ធផ្ចាញ់មារ, ''preah pud (buddha) p'chanh mea'') is an Iconography of Gautama Buddha in Laos and T ...

'', the meditation attitude has both hands on his lap, whilst the ''maravijaya'' has only one hand on the lap.

Gallery

File:Phimai National Museum-003.jpg, Khmer mediation Buddha from Prasat Phimai lintel, 11th-12th Century CE, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. File:Songkran cleaning-of-Buddha-figure 2013 IMG 5521.jpg, at Wat Phra Yai,

Koh Samui Ko Samui (or Koh Samui, also often locally shortened to Samui; th, เกาะสมุย, ) is an island off the east coast of Thailand. Geographically in the Chumphon Archipelago, it is part of Surat Thani Province, though as of 2012, Ko ...

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References

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