Buddhānussati: The Development of Concept of Meditation Technique on Recollection of the Enlightened One

Abstract

There are four great religions all over the world in the present day: Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islamism. Of them, Buddhism has two main meditations: Tranquility Meditation technique and Insight Meditation technique. Regarding the former in Buddhism, there are forty meditation techniques of Samathabhāvanā and these should be described herein in brief namely: ten Kasiṇas, ten Asubhas, ten Anussatis, four Brahmavihāras, four Arūpas, One Saññā and One Vavatthāna. Here, the researcher will discuss origin and development of concept of meditation technique on Buddhānussati from ten Anussatis in accordance with Theravāda Buddhism. In addition, there are six kinds of Temperaments, namely, Rāgacarita; Lustful Temperament, Dosacarita; Hateful Temperament, Mohacarita; Ignorant Temperament, Saddhācarita; Devote Temperament, Buddhicarita; Intellectual Temperament and Vitakkacarita; Discursive Temperament. Consequently, what the researcher would like to articulate is the concept of tranquility meditation technique which is contemplated the Great Qualities of the Buddha in accord with Devote Temperament and how it is
differentiation between primary and secondary or from one period to later periods
(maybe from Early Buddhism to later Buddhism) in order to understand the theoretical
recollection of the Buddha’s Virtues and how the Buddhist or non Buddhist should
modify by Meaning, Constituents and Signifi cance.