Dpyad sgom

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Key Term	analytical meditation
In Tibetan Script	དབྱེད་སྒོམ་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	dbyed sgom
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	che gom
English Standard	analytical meditation
Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term	analytical meditation
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Tibetan
Basic Meaning	Analytical meditation is a technique that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation involving abstract thought about a specific idea or experience in the context of a single meditation session designed to support integrating reasoning and experience.
Has the Sense of	Thrangu Rinpoche describes the two ways to develop the wisdom that perceives the nature of reality: "...analytical meditation (Tib. che gom) and placement medita­tion (Tib. jok gom). In analytical meditation, one reads (or listens to) a passage giving a logical argument and then one goes into a deep Shamatha meditation and contemplates this argument." (Source: Transcending Ego: Distinguishing Consciousness from Wisdom (Tib. namshe yeshe jepa) of Rangjung Dorje, The Third Karmapa. With a Commentary by The Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche Geshe Lharampa. Translated by Peter Roberts. Boulder: Namo Buddha Publications, 2001, page 104.)
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Definitions
sutra/śastra quote:	If you discriminate that phenomena are identityless And meditate by discriminating them in this way, This is the cause for the result of attaining nirvāṇa. Peace will not come about through any other cause.
sutra/śastra quote source:	pp 273, Brunnhölzl, Karl, The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition. Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

Analytical meditation is a technique involving critical analysis that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation, such as impermanence.

Analytical meditation is a technique involving critical analysis that focuses the mind on a specific contemplation, such as impermanence.

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.