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BUDDHIST DICTIONARY
- L -
- lahutā: 'lightness', or 'agility', may be of 3 kinds: of
materiality (rūpassa lahutā; s. khandha I ), of mental factors
(kāya-lahutā), and of consciousness (citta-lahutā). Cf.
Tab.II.
- lakkhana:
'characteristics'. For the 3 ch. of existence,
s. ti-lakkhana.
- law:
dhamma.
- learning,
wisdom based on: s. paññā.
- liberality:
dāna,
cāga.
- liberation:
s. vimokkha.
- life-infatuation:
s. mada.
- light,
perception of: s. Āloka-saññā.
- light-kasina:
s. kasina.
- lightness
(of materiality, mental factors and
consciousness): lahutā.
- loathsomeness
(of the body): s. asubha,
sivathikā,
kāyagatāsati.
- lobha:
'greed', is one of the 3 disadvantageous roots (mūla) and a synonym of
rāga and tanhā.
- lobha-carita:
'greedy-natured', s. carita.
- lofty consciousness:
s. sobhana.
- lohita-kasina:
'red-kasina', s. kasina.
- loka
- loka-dhamma:
'worldly conditions'. "Eight things are
called worldly conditions, since they arise in connection with worldly life,
namely: gain and loss, honour and dishonour, happiness and misery, praise and
blame" (Vis.M. XXII). Cf. also A.VIII.5.
- lokiya
- lokuttara
- loving-kindness:
mettā; s. brahmavihāra.
- lower fetters,
the 5: s. samyojana.
- lower worlds,
the 4: apāya.
- low speech:
tiracchāna-kathā.
- lust:
s. rāga.
 
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