— 1) Verabredung , Uebereinkommen.
— 2) klare Erkenntniss (buddh.).
sameti, q.v.), (1) comprehension, clear understanding;
(spiritual) realization, intuitive grasp (of religious verities),
in Pali especially grasp of the Law (dhamma) or the four
noble truths (sacca); Tib. mṅon par rtogs pa, clear com-
prehension; cf. Stcherbatskoy, Abhisamayālaṃkāra (Bibl.
Bu. 23), p.iii, ‘abhisamaya means direct intuition of the
Absolute. Here it means the Path of attaining that in-
tuition…a synonym of mārga;’ often in comp. with
that which is comprehended: dharmābhi° Mv i.261.19;
SP 328.11; Sukh 42.16; satyābhi° (as in Pali, above) Bbh
38.12; Divy 340.8 and 355.20 (in these two saha, preceding
satyā°, should be taken as a separate word); Ud xx.2;
āryasatyānām abhisamayāya Divy 654.26; jñānābhi° RP
34.12; prāpty-abhi° ŚsP 615.17 ff. (on prāpti cf. AbhidhK.
La V-P. ii.179 et passim); yogābhi° Laṅk 12.1; mārgābhi°
LV 38.5 (realization, intuitive comprehension, of the Path);
(śrāvaka-, pratyekabuddha-, and tathāgata-) yānābhi°
Mvy 1261-3 (comprehension of the vehicles); of the inferior
intuitions or realizations of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas
Gv 505.15; Dbh 62.19; 96.28--29; used absolutely, some-
thing like enlightenment or spiritual realization in general,
Laṅk 10.12; Dbh 63.13; Dbh.g. 54(80).10; listed among
synonyms of nirvāṇa Mvy 1731; abhisamayāntika (see
antika), ending in abhi° (realization? enlightenment?
nirvāṇa?) Mvy 1208; 6891; abhisamayādhigamajñāna-
Laṅk 218.6, 7 (Suzuki enlightenment = an intuitive under-
standing, for abhisamaya); (2) any of the three collective
conversions of crowds of disciples, accomplished by Buddha;
so (and also dhammābhi°) in Pali, see CPD: Mv i.250.16;
251.2.