Editing Samadhi (section)

==== Indian Mahāyāna ====
The earliest extant Indian Mahāyāna texts emphasize ascetic practices, forest-dwelling, and states of meditative oneness, i.e. ''samādhi''. These practices seem to have occupied a central place in early Mahāyāna, also because they "may have given access to fresh revelations and inspiration".{{sfn|Williams|2009|p=30}}

Indian Mahāyāna traditions refer to numerous forms of ''samādhi'', for example, Section 21 of the ''Mahavyutpatti'' records 118 distinct forms of ''samādhi''{{sfn|Skilton|2002|p=56}} and the [[Samadhiraja Sutra]] has as its main theme a ''samādhi'' called 'the ''samādhi'' that is manifested as the sameness of the essential nature of all ''dharma''s' (''sarva-dharma-svabhavā-samatā-vipañcita-samādhi'').{{sfn|Gomez|Silk|1989|p=15-16}}{{refn|group=note|Gomez & Silk: "This samādhi is at the same time the cognitive experience of emptiness, the attainment of the attributes of buddhahood, and the performance of a variety of practices or daily activities of a bodhisattva—including service and adoration at the feet of all buddhas. The word samādhi is also used to mean the sūtra itself. Consequently, we can speak of an equation, sūtra <nowiki>=</nowiki> samādhi <nowiki>=</nowiki> śūnyatā, underlying the text. In this sense, the title ''Samadhiraja'' expresses accurately the content of the sūtra".{{sfn|Gomez|Silk|1989|p=15-16}}}}