The Pātanjalayogaśāstra concludes with a description of the pinnacle of yoga practice: a state of samādhi called dharmamegha, cloud of dharma. Yet despite the structural importance of dharmamegha in the soteriology of Pātanjala yoga, the śāstra itself does not say much about this term. Where we do find dharmamegha discussed, however, is in Buddhist yogācāra, and more broadly in early Mahāyāna soteriology, where it represents the apex of attainment and the superlative statehood of a bodhisattva. Given the relative paucity of Brahmanical mentions of dharmamegha in the early common era, Patanjali appears to adopt this key metaphor from a Mahāyāna context—and to revise its primary meaning from fullness to emptiness. This article traces the early elaborations of dharmamegha in Buddhist texts, and, drawing on conceptual metaphor theory, lays out four arguments that each, in part, accounts for the stark contrast in how classical yoga and yogācāra employ the superlative metaphor of dharmamegha.

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瑜伽和瑜伽中的佛法：最高级隐喻的修正

Pātanjalayogaśāstra 以对瑜伽练习顶峰的描述结束：一种称为 dharmamegha 的三摩地状态，即佛法之云。然而，尽管 dharmamegha 在 Pātanjala 瑜伽的救赎论中具有结构上的重要性，但 śāstra 本身并没有对这个术语说太多。然而，我们确实在佛教瑜伽中发现佛法，在更广泛的早期大乘救世论中，它代表了菩萨的最高境界和最高境界。考虑到在早期普通时代，婆罗门教很少提及佛法，帕坦伽利似乎从大乘的语境中采用了这个关键的比喻——并将其主要含义从充实修改为空性。这篇文章追溯了佛经中对法门的早期阐述，并借鉴概念隐喻理论，