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BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - N -
- nāma
- nāma-kāya
- nāma-rūpa
- ñāna: 'knowledge, comprehension, intelligence,
insight', is a synonym for paññā; see also
vipassanā.
- ñānadassana-visuddhi
- nānatta-saññā:
The 'variety (or multiformity) -
perceptions are explained under jhāna.
- ñāna-vipphārā iddhi:
the 'power of penetrating
knowledge', is one of the magical powers (iddhi).
- ñāta-pariññā:
'full understanding (or comprehension)
of the known', is one of the 3 kinds of full understanding (pariññā).
- natthika-ditthi:
'nihilistic view' (a doctrine that all
values are baseless, that nothing is knowable or can be communicated, and that
life itself is meaningless), s. ditthi.
- natthi-paccaya:
'absence-condition', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
- natural morality:
pakati-sīla.
- navanga-buddha
(or satthu)- sāsana: s.
sāsana.
- nava-sattāvāsa:
s. sattāvāsa.
- naya-vipassanā:
s. kalāpa (2).
- ñāya:
'right method', is often used as a name for the
Noble Eightfold Path (s. magga), e.g. in the Satipatthāna Sutta (M. 10,
D. 22).
- neighbourhood-concentration:
upacāra-samādhi.
- nekkhamma
- nesajjikanga:
one of the 13 dhutanga.
- neutral,
karmically: avyākata (q.v.); n.
feelings, s. vedanā.
- n'eva-saññā-n'āsaññāyatana:
The 'sphere of
neither-perception-nor-non-perception', is the name for the fourth absorption of
the immaterial sphere (arūpāvacara), a semi-conscious state, which is
surpassed only by the state of complete suspense of consciousness, called
'attainment of extinction' (nirodha-samāpatti). See
jhāna
(8).
- n'eva-sekha-n'āsekha:
'neither in training nor beyond
training', i.e. neither learner nor master. Thus is called the worldling (puthujjana), for he is neither pursuing the 3-fold training (sikkhā)
in morality, mental culture and wisdom, on the level of the first 3 paths of
sanctity, nor has he completed his training as an Arahat. See
sekha. -
(App.).
- neyya
- neyyattha-dhamma
- Nibbāna
- nibbatti:
'arising', 'rebirth', is a synonym for
patisandhi.
- nibbedha-bhāgiya-sīla
(-samādhi, -paññā): 'morality
(concentration, wisdom) connected with penetration'; s.
hāna-bhāgiya-sīla.
- nibbidānupassanā-ñāna:
'contemplation of aversion',
is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight; s. vipassanā (4), samatha-vipassanā
(2), visuddhi (VI, 5).
- nicca-saññā
(-citta,-ditthi): perception (or
consciousness, or view) of permanency, is one of the 4 perversions (vipallāsa).
- nihilistic view:
natthika-ditthi; s.
ditthi.
- nīla-kasina:
'blue-kasina exercise' s. kasina.
- nimitta
- nimmāna-rati:
the name of a class of heavenly beings of
the sensuous sphere; s. deva.
- nine abodes of beings:
s. sattāvāsa.
- ninefold dispensation:
s: sāsana.
- nippapañca:
s. papañca.
- nipphanna-rūpa
- niraya
- nirodha:
'extinction'; s. nirodha-samāpatti,
anupubba-nirodha.
- nirodhānupassanā:
'contemplation of extinction', is one
of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā). See
Ānāpānasati
(15).
- nirodha-samāpatti
- nirutti-patisambhidā:
the 'analytical knowledge of
language', is one of the 4 patisambhidā.
- nirvana:
(Sanskrit= ) Nibbāna.
- nissarana-pahāna:
'overcoming by escape', is one of the
5 kinds of overcoming (pahāna).
- nissaya
- nissaya-paccaya:
'support', base, foundation, is one of
the 24 conditions (s. paccaya, 8).
- nītattha-dhamma:
A 'doctrine with evident meaning',
contrasted with a 'doctrine with a meaning to be inferred' (neyyattha-dhamma). See also
paramattha.
- nīvarana
- niyāma
- niyata-micchāditthi
- niyata-puggala
- noble abodes:
s. vihāra.
- noble family,
Passing from n.f. to n.f.: kolankola;
s. Sotāpanna.
- noble persons:
ariya-puggala.
- noble power:
ariya iddhi; s. iddhi.
- noble truths,
the 4: ariya-sacca; s.
sacca.
- The 2-fold knowledge of the n.t.; s. sacca-ñāna.
- noble usages,
the 4: ariya-vamsa.
- non-disappearance:
avigata-paccaya, is one of the
24 conditions (paccaya).
- non-violence:
s. avihimsā.
- not-self:
s. anattā.
- no-upādā-rūpa:
'underived materiality', designates
the 4 primary elements (mahābhūta or dhātu), as distinguished
from the 'derived materiality' (upādā-rūpa), such as the sensitive
organs, etc. Cf. khandha, I.
- nutriment:
s. ojā, Āhāra. - Āhāra is
one of the 24 conditions (paccaya) - n.- produced
materiality; s. samutthāna.
 
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