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BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - O -

  • obduracies, the 5 mental: ceto-khila.

  • obhāsa: 'effulgence of light', aura, appearing at times during deep insight (vipassanā), may become a 'defilement of insight' (vipassanūpakkilesa); cf. visuddhi V.

  • object: Ārammana; as condition s. paccaya (2).

  • obstacles, the 10 o. of meditation: palibodha; for the 5 mental obstacles, or hindrances, s. nīvarana.

  • odāta-kasina: 'white-kasina-exercise'; s. kasina.

  • ogha: 'floods', is a name for the 4 fermentations (Āsava).

  • ojā

  • okkanti

  • old age: jarā (q.v.), is one of the 3 divine messengers (s. devadūta).

  • olfactory organ: s. Āyatana.

  • omāna: 'inferiority-conceit'; s. māna.

  • once-eater, the practice of the: s. dhutanga.

  • one-group existence: eka-vokāra-bhava.

  • one-pointedness of mind (citt'ekaggatā): a name for mental concentration (samādhi).

  • opapātika

  • open air, practice of living in the: s. dhutanga.

  • opposite: 'overcoming by the opposite,' s. pahāna.

  • orambhāgiya-samyojana: the 'lower fetters', i.e. the first 5 fetters that bind to lower existence; s. samyojana.

  • origination, dependent: paticcasamuppāda.

  • origination of materiality: s. samutthāna.

  • ottappa: 'moral dread'; s. hiri-ottappa.

  • overcoming, the 5 kinds of: s. pahāna. - Full understanding consisting in o.; s. pariññā - the effort to overcome, s. padhāna. - Overcoming doubt, the purification by; s. visuddhi IV.


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