In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Viṭhapana (विठपन) refers to “creations”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, as Gaganagañja said to Ratnapāṇi: “Son of good family, those sixty-four dharmas are included in one hundred twenty-eight dharmas. What are those one hundred twenty-four? [...] (21) the nature as a dream is included in recollecting and knowing what has been seen and learned, and one’s own experience of the dharma; (22) the nature as an illusion is included in creations (viṭhapana) and fictions; (23) supernormal knowledges is included in reliance on meaning and knowledge; (24) skillful means is included in seeing by insight and having regard for living beings; [...]’”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Viṭhapana (विठपन).—nt., and °nā, once viṣṭhapana (n. act. in -ana to next), fixation, establishment, creation, making; especially with implication of something illusory and fleeting: sarvadharmā viṭhapana-(so with Mironov)-pratyupasthāna- lakṣaṇāḥ Mahāvyutpatti 185, all states of being are characterized by involvement in (illusory) creation; °na-pratyupasthāna- lakṣaṇam Mahāvyutpatti 7233, Tibetan rnam par bsgrub pa (this, or with bsgrubs, is the usual Tibetan rendering); māyākṛtaṃ sarva- saṃskṛtaṃ °na-pratyupasthāna-lakṣaṇam Śikṣāsamuccaya 180.4 (here māyākṛtaṃ is decisive; Bendall and Rouse cite Tibetan as rnam par bsgrabs pas, read bsgrubs); Gaṇḍavyūha 524.1 corrupt, eṣāṃ dharmāṇāṃ dharmatā, aviṣṭhapana-(read viṣṭh°, for viṭh°)-pratyupasthāna-lakṣaṇāḥ…sarvadharma-(read °mā with 2d ed.) bodhisattvajñānādhiṣṭhitāḥ, evaṃ sva- bhāvāpariṇiṣpannā māyāsvapnapratibhāsopamāḥ; (sattvā- nāṃ…) citta-māyā-°na-tāṃ Daśabhūmikasūtra 74.4, the fact that creatures are created by mental illusion (compare māyopamaṃ cittam iyam ucyate cittadharmatā Śikṣāsamuccaya 236.2); but in Śikṣāsamuccaya 236.3 this implication is hardly to be found: yat punaḥ sarvasvaṃ parityajya sarvabuddhakṣetrapariśud- dhaye pariṇāmayatītīyam ucyate viṭhapanā (fem.); here, in a formal definition, the meaning seems to be firm fixation (Bendall and Rouse edification, which I do not find in it); at least no very clear suggestion of unreality seems found in the following: abhisaṃbodhivikurvita-°nena bodhisattva- samādhinā Gaṇḍavyūha 38.17—18; upāyakauśalya-°na-dharmatayā 469.18 (compare however Kāśyapa Parivarta 32.1, 7, s.v. viṭhapayati); nt., °na, Gaṇḍavyūha 449.7, 15; f., °nā, 524.6; buddhakṣetra-°panālaṃ- kārābhinirhāratayā, or °nirhṛtatayā, or °nirhāraṃ, Daśabhūmikasūtra 39.14; 45.6; 55.17; same [compound] (°nirhāraṃ) with traidhātuka- instead of buddhakṣetra- 55.10—11, with rūpakāyalakṣa- ṇānuvyañjana- instead of id., 55.18—19; in this [compound] viṭhapanālaṃkāra is to be taken as a dvandva, establish- ment and adornment, as proved by reverse order in: vyūhālaṃkāra-viṭhapanā-prāptaś 62.11 (here f. °nā).

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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