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Old 03-18-2010, 07:24 AM   #7
VotsUtegems

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There aren't Jhanas listed in that way in Mahayana. I'm not sure what the actual equivalent is because there are stages like the Bodhisattva levels. here & here
http://www.sutrasmantras.info/glossary.html#samadhi
dhyāna (禪). Meditation.
Meditation above the desire-realm level is generally classified into four levels, the four dhyānas (四禪) of the form realm.
In the first dhyāna, one's mind is undisturbed by the pleasures of the desire realm, but it has coarse and subtle perception.
In the second dhyāna, there is bliss in meditation.
In the third dhyāna, there is subtle joy after abandoning the bliss of the second dhyāna.
In the fourth dhyāna, one's mind is in pure meditation, free from any subtle feelings or movements.
Each level of dhyāna is also called the Root Samādhi, from which will grow virtues, such as the Four Immeasurable Minds and the eight liberations (see the four samādhis of the formless realm).

samādhi (定).
A state of mental absorption in meditation.
Above the level of the desire realm, there are eight levels of worldly samādhi (八定).
The first four levels are the four dhyānas (四禪) of the form realm.
The next four levels are the four samādhis of the formless realm (四空定): Boundless Space (空無邊), Boundless Consciousness (識無邊), Nothingness (無所有), and Neither Perception nor Non-perception (非想非非想).
A Buddhist or non-Buddhist who has attained any of the eight levels of meditation can be reborn in a corresponding heaven in the form or formless realm.
Only an Arhat can attain the ninth level called the Samādhi of Total Halt (滅盡定), also more appropriately called the Samādhi of Total Suspension of Sensory Reception and Perception (滅受想定).
To enter the Samādhi Door of Buddhas is to attain innumerable samādhis. See also: here
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