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BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -A-
- Abandonment, contemplation of: patinissaggānupassanā, is one of
the 18 chief kinds of insight; s. vipassanā,
further Ānāpānasati (16).
- Abbhokāsik'anga
: 'living in the open air', is one of the ascetic means
to purification (dhutanga).
- Aberration
(in morality and understanding): s.
vipatti.
- Abhabbāgamana,
'incapable of
progressing'...
- Ābhassara:
The 'Radiant Ones', are a class of heavenly beings of the
fine-material world (rūpa-loka); cf. deva.
- Abhibhāyatana
the 8 'stages of
mastery', ...
- abhijjhā:
'covetousness' is a synonym of
lobha (s. mūla) and
tanhā and is the 8th link of the disadvantageous
courses of action (s. kamma-patha, I).
- Abhinibbatti,
a Sutta term for rebirth; s.
punabbhava.
- Abhiññā:
The 6 'higher powers', or
supernormal knowledge's, ...
- Abhisamācārika-sīla: '
morality
consisting in good behaviour', ...
- Abhisamaya:
'truth-realization', ...
- Abhisankhāra:
identical with the 2nd link of the
paticca-samuppāda,
sankhāra (under I, 1) or
karma-constructions.
- Ability to acquire insight:
cf. ugghatitaññū, vipacitaññū neyya.
- Abodes:
vihāra. The 4 Divine
a.: brahma-vihāra. The 9 a.
of beings: sattāvāsa.
- Absence:
natthi-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
- Absorption:
s. jhāna.
- Abstentions,
the 3: virati.
- Access,
Moment of: s. javana.
- Access-concentration:
s. samādhi.
- Accumulation
(of Karma): Āyūhana.
- Ācinnaka-kamma:
habitual karma; s. karma.
- Acinteyya:
lit. 'That which cannot or
should not be thought, the unthinkable, ...
- Acquired image
(during concentration): s.
nimitta,
samādhi, kasina.
- Action:
karma (q.v.) - Right bodily a.: sammā-kammanta;
s. sacca (IV.4)
- Adaptability
(of body, mental factors and consciousness):
kammaññatā; cf.
khandha (materiality) and
Tab. II.
- Adaptation-knowledge:
Anuloma-ñāna.
- Adherence:
parāmāsa.
- Adherent:
upāsaka.
- Adhicitta-sikkhā
'training in higher mentality'; s.
sikkhā.
- Adhimokkha:
'determination', decision,
resolve ...
- Adhipaññā-dhamma-vipassanā:
'insight into things based on higher
wisdom', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (s.
vipassanā).
- Adhipati-paccaya:
'predominance-condition' is one of the 24 conditions
(paccaya); if developed, it is considered
as the fourfold road to power (iddhi-pāda).
- Adhisīla-sikkhā:
'training in higher morality': s.
sikkhā.
- Adhitthāna,
Determination ...
- Ādibrahmacariyaka-sīla:
'morality of genuine pure conduct', ...
- Ādīnavānupassanā-ñāna:
'knowledge
consisting in experience of Danger', ...
- Adosa:
'hatelessness, is one of the 3 advantageous roots (mūla).
- Adukkha-m-asukhā vedanā:
'feeling which is neither painful nor
joyful', i.e. indifferent feeling; s. khandha,
vedanā.
- Advertence
(of mind to the object): Āvajjana, is one of the
functions of consciousness (viññāna-kicca).
Cf. manasikāra.
- Aeon:
kappa.
- Agati:
the 4 'wrong paths' ...
- Age,
Old: jarā.
- Aggregates:
khandha.
- Agility:
lahutā.
- Āhāra:
'nutriment', 'food', ...
- Āhāra-ja
(or-samutthāna) - rūpa: 'Food-produced
materiality'; s. samutthāna.
- Āhāre-patikkūla-saññā:
'reflection on
the loathsomeness of food', fully described in Vis.M. XI, l.
- Ahetuka-citta:
s. hetu.
- Ahetuka-ditthi:
'view of uncausedness' (of existence); s.
ditthi.
- Ahetu-patisandhika:
s. patisandhi.
- Ahimsā:
s. Avihimsā.
- Ahirika-anottappa:
'lack of moral shame
and dread', ...
- Ahosi-kamma:
'ineffective karma'; s. karma.
- Ājīva:
'livelihood'. About right and wrong livelihood., s.
sacca (IV. 5) and
micchā-magga (5).
- Ājīva-pārisuddhi-sīla:
'morality consisting in purification of
livelihood', is one of the 4 kinds of perfect morality; s.
sīla.
- Akanittha:
the 'Great Ones', i.e. 'Highest Gods', are the inhabitants
of the 5th and highest heaven of the Pure Abodes (suddhāvāsa);
cf. Avacara, deva
(II), Anāgāmī.
- Ākāsa:
'space', ...
- Ākāsa dhātu:
'space element'; see above and
dhātu.
- Ākāsa-kasina
'space-kasina exercise'; s.
kasina.
- Ākāsānañcāyatana:
'sphere of boundless space', is identical with the
1st absorption in the immaterial sphere; s. jhāna
(6).
- Ākiñcañña-ceto-vimutti:
s.
ceto-vimutti.
- Ākiñcaññāyatana:
s. jhāna (7).
- Akiriya-ditthi:
view of the inefficacy of action'; s.
ditthi.
- Akuppā-ceto-vimutti:
cf.
ceto-vimutti.
- Akuppa-dhamma:
'unshakable', ...
- Akusala:
'disadvantageous', ...
- Akusala-sādhārana-cetasika:
'general disadvantageous mental factors ...
- Akusala-vitakka:
'disadvantageous
thoughts' ...
- alcohol prohibition: s.
surāmeraya-majja-ppamādatthānā etc.
- Alms,
vow of going for; or to do so without omitting any house: s.
dhutanga, 3, 4.
- Alms-bowl eater,
the practice of the: s.
dhutanga.
- Alms-giving:
dāna.
- Alms-goer,
the practice of the; s.
dhutanga.
- Alobha:
'greedlessness', is one of the 3 karmically advantageous roots (mūla).
- Āloka-kasina:
'light-kasina-exercise'; s.
kasina.
- Āloka-saññā:
'perception of light'.
...
- Altruistic joy:
muditā, is one of the 4 sublime abodes (brahmavihāra).
- Amata
'Deathlessness' ...
- Amoha:
'non-delusion', wisdom, is one of the 3 karmically advantageous
roots (mūla).
- Anabhijjhā:
'freedom from covetousness', unselfishness; s.
kammapatha (II. 8).
- Anabhirati-saññā:
s. sabba-loke
anabhirati-s.
- Anāgāmī:
the 'Non-Returner', ...
- Analysis of the 4 elements:
dhātu-vavatthāna.
- Analytical doctrine:
vibhajja-vāda.
- Analytical knowledge,
the 4 kinds of:
patisambhidā.
- Anaññātañ-ñassāmīt'indriya:
is one of the 3 supermundane senses or
abilities; s. indriya (20).
- Anantara-paccaya:
'proximity', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
- Ānantarika-kamma:
the 5 heinous
'actions with immediate destiny' ...
- Ānantariya:
the 'Immediacy', ...
- Ānāpāna-sati:
'mindfulness on
in-and-out-breathing', i...
- Anattā:
'not-self', non-ego, egolessness,
impersonality, ...
- Anattānupassanā:
'contemplation of not-self' is one of the 18 chief
kinds of insight (s. vipassanā). See
also above.
- Anattā-saññā:
'perception of not-self'; see A.VI.104; A.VII.48;
A.X.60; Ud.IV.1.
- Anattā-vāda:
the 'doctrine of impersonality'; s.
Anattā.
- Āneñja:
'imperturbability', denotes the immaterial sphere (arūpāvacara;
s. Avacara); s.
sankhāra. cf. M.106.
- Anger:
s. mūla.
- Anicca:
'impermanent' (or, as abstract
noun, aniccatā, 'impermanence') ...
- Aniccānupassanā:
'contemplation of impermanence', is one of the 18
chief kinds of insight (s. vipassanā).
- Anicca-saññā:
'perception of
impermanence', ...
- Animitta-ceto-vimutti:
s.
ceto-vimutti.
- Animittānupassanā:
s.
vipassanā.
- Animitta-vimokkha:
s.
vimokkha.
- Añña:
'other', being of the opposite category.
- Aññā
- Aññāmañña-paccaya:
'mutuality-condition,' is one of the 24 conditions
(paccaya).
- Aññātāvindriya:
'the ability of one who knows'; s.
indriya 22.
- Aññindriya:
'the ability of highest knowledge'; s.
Aññā and indriya
21.
- Anottappa:
s. Ahirika.
- Answering questions:
4 ways of: s. pañhā-byākarana.
- Antarā-parinibbāyī:
is one of the 5 kinds of Non-Returners or
Anāgāmī.
- Antinomies:
s. ditthi.
- Anuloma-citta
- Anuloma-ñāna
- Anupādisesa-nibbāna:
see Nibbāna,
upādi.
- Anupassanā
- Anupubba-nirodha
- Anupubba-vihāra
- Ānupubbī-kathā
- Anurakkhana-padhāna:
the 'effort to maintain' advantageous states; s.
padhāna.
- Anusaya
- Anussati
- Aparāpariya-vedanīya-kamma:
'karma bearing fruits in later births'; s.
karma.
- Aparihāna-dhamma
- Aparihāniya-dhamma
- Apāya
- Āpo-dhātu:
'water-element'; s. dhātu.
- Appamāda
- Appamānābha:
a kind of heavenly being; s.
deva, (II).
- Appamāna-ceto-vimutti:
s. ceto-vimutti.
- Appamāna-subha:
a kind of heavenly being: s.
deva (II).
- Appamaññā:
The 4 'Boundless States', identical with
brahma-vihāra.
- Appanā-samādhi
- Appanihita-vimokkha:
s. vimokkha.
- appanihitānupassanā: s. vipassanā.
- Appendants, The 3: kiñcana.
- appicchatā: 'having only few wishes',
contentedness, is one of the indispensable virtues of the monk; cf.
A.X.181-190, and Ariyavamsa.
- Apuññābhisankhāra: s. sankhāra.
- Arahat and arahatta-magga,-phala: s.
Ariya-puggala.
- Ārammana
- Ārammanādhipati, Ārammanupanissaya: s.
paccaya.
- Āraññikanga: The 'exercise of the forest-dweller', is one of the
ascetic purification-exercises (dhutanga).
- Arising and vanishing (of things). The knowledge consisting in the
contemplation of; s. visuddhi (VI. 1.).
- Ariya-iddhi: s. iddhi.
- Ariya-magga: s. foll.
- Ariya-puggala
or ariya
- Ariya-sacca:
The Four 'Noble Truths'; s. sacca.
- Ariya-vamsa
- Ariya-vihāra:
s. vihāra.
- Arūpa-bhava:
s. bhava,
loka.
- Arūpa-jjhāna:
- s. jhāna.
- Arūpa-kkhandha:
The four 'immaterial groups' of existence are: feeling,
perception, mental constructions, consciousness; s. khandha.
- Arūpāvacara:
s. Avacara.
- Āruppa:
s. jhāna.
- Asankhāra-parinibbāyī:
The 'one reaching Nibbāna without exertion', is
one of the five classes of Non-Returners (Anāgāmī)
- Asankhārika-citta
- asankhata:
The 'Unformed, Unoriginated,
Unconditioned' is a name for Nibbāna,
the beyond of all becoming and conditionality.
- Asañña-satta
- Āsava
- Āsavakkhaya:
see above.
- Ascending insight:
s. vutthāna-gāminī-vipassanā.
- Ascetic purification practices:
s. dhutanga.
- Asekha
- Āsevana-paccaya:
'repetition', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
- Asmi-māna
- Assāsa-passāsa
- Association:
sampayutta-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
- Asubha
- Asura:
'demons', titans, evil ghosts, inhabiting one of the lower
worlds (Apāya).
- Atappa
- Atimāna:
'superiority-conceit'; s. māna.
- Attā
- Attachments:
s. parāmāsa.
- Atta-ditthi
(-vāda): 'ego-belief', 'personality-belief', s.
ditthi.
- Attainment-concentration:
Appanā-samādhi; s.
samādhi.
- Attainments,
'The 8 a.'; s. samāpatti.
- Atta-kilamatha
- Atta-saññā
(°citta, °ditthi): 'perception (consciousness,
view) of an ego', is one of the 4 perversions (vipallāsa).
- Atta-vādupādāna:
'attachment to the ego-belief', is one of the 4 kinds
of clinging (upādāna).
- Attention:
s. manasikāra.
- Attentiveness,
attention, mindfulness; s. sati,
satipatthāna.
- Atthangika-magga:
The 'Eightfold Path'; s. magga.
- Attha-patisambhidā:
The 'analytical knowledge of meaning', is one of
the 4 kinds of analytical knowledge (patisambhidā).
- Atthi-paccaya:
'presence', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya)
.
- Auditory organ:
s. Āyatana.
- Avacara
- Āvajjana
- Aversion
(from existence), contemplation of: s.
vipassanā (VI . 5)
- Avīci
is the name of one of the most frightful hells (niraya).
- Avigata-paccaya:
'non-disappearance', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
- Aviha
- Avihimsā
- Avijjā
- Avikkhepa
- Avoidance and performance:
s. cāritta, etc. - The effort to avoid, s.
padhāna.
- Avyākata
- Avyāpāda
- Awakenment:
s. bodhi.
- Āyatana
- Āyūhana
 
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