A Study Of Ananpanasita

Anapanasita is an important path of meditation in Buddhist practice. The study of anapanasita will help us understand the background of original Buddhism, the archaic ideas and cultures in China and India, and advance the study of the Sanskrit Sthavirava^da and Pali Therava^da. From the study, we can have a restricted view to the track of Buddhist evolution, and have an understanding about three vehicles of the Buddhism as a whole. The study also has a great value of improving the health care, keeping in good health and the psychological health.This paper puts the all important manifest teaching sutra about anapanasita in order, discusses some important issue, and expresses the anapanasita completely, faithfully, subtly.This paper includes three parts: preface, text and conclusion.The preface discusses the concept of anapanasita, the main sutra, the impartment, main study production, the values and purpose of this study.Chapter 1: Study the four-step anapanasita in Ekottara, and the sixteen-step anapanasita in samyukta. Expound the system, method and the point.Chapter2: Study the anapanasita in the Sanskrit Sthavirava^da and Pali Therava^da. Expound the two systems of sixteen-step and six-step anapanasita completely. Explain the sixteen-step is from Buddha and the six-step is from teacher. The anapanasita in the Sanskrit Sthavirava^da and Pali Therava^da keeps the same shape of original Buddhism during thousands years.Chapter3: Study the anapanasita of Sarvastivada. Discuss the cause of breath,the state, class, order, concept of breath etc. Expound the sixteen-step and six-step anapanasita. Explain the sixteen-step is from Buddha and the six-step is from teacher too.Chapter4: Study the anapanasita of Abhidharmakosa. Abhidharmakosa only records the six-step anapanasita. Discuss the concept, nature, karma of anapanasita.Chapter5: Study the anapanasita of Satyasiddhi Shastra. Discuss the two systems of sixteen-step and six-step. Expound the nature, advantage, order, karma of nanapanasita. Study the reason why name the breath as food. Point out the Satyasiddhi Shasta's six-step anapanasita starts the six-step anapanasita of Mahayana.Chapter6: Study the anapanasita of Daanboshouyijing. The outline is four meditation and the six-step anapanasita.Chapter7: Study the four-step (six-step) and sixteen-step anapanasita of Xiuxingdaodijing.Chapter8: Study the anapanasita of Zuochansanmeijing. Discuss the six-step and sixteen-step. Expound the nature of breath and the breath condition of different ages.Chapter9: Study the anapanasita of Damoduoluochanjing. Study the nature of this text. Analyse the medetation system of two road and four part minutely.Chapter 10: Study the anapanasita teached by ZhiZhe, the master of Tian Tai Zong. Study the six-step, sixteen-step and tongmingchan, point out the every small difference between the Mahayana and Hinayana.Chapter11: Study the anapanasita of yogacarabhumisastra. Discuss the seven questions, five practice. Express the similarities and differences of theory and practice between the Mahayana and the Hinayana distinctly.In conclusion, I point out the character of Buddhist anapanasita which distinguish between Buddhism and heresy is sunyata. The different understanding of the sunyata between the Mahayana and the Hinayana makes the difference anapanasita between them.