![]() : 295Įarly instances of the nine stages of decay can be found in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, (–20 BC) the "Sutra on the Samādhi Contemplation of the Oceanlike Buddha," and the "Discourse on the Great Wisdom" ( Mahaprajnaparamitita-sastra) by Nagarjuna ( c. 'nine-phase pictures') : 24 and became related to aesthetic ideas of impermanence. ![]() In Japan, images of the stages are called kusouzu ( 九相図, lit. : 24 The nine stages later became a popular subject of Buddhist art and poetry. Along with paṭikūlamanasikāra, this type of meditation is one of the two meditations on "the foul" or "unattractive" ( aśubha). The contemplation of the nine stages of a decaying corpse is a Buddhist meditational practice in which the practitioner imagines or observes the gradual decomposition of a dead body. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |