观

(觀, 观)

(sa) vipaśyanā; (sa) vidarśanā. To look into, study, examine, contemplate; contemplation, insight; a study, a Taoist monastery; to consider illusion and discern illusion, or discern the seeming from the real; to contemplate and mentally enter into truth. [lang id =1028]覺 is defined as awakening, or awareness, [lang id =1028]觀 as examination or study. It is also an old tr. of the word Yoga; and cf. [lang id =1028]禪 17. Guan is especially a doctrine of the Tiantai school as shown in the [lang id =1028]止觀 q.v.