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  • pabbajjā
  • paccavekkhana-ñāna
  • paccavekkhana-suddhi: 'purity of reflection', is a name for wise consideration in using the 4 requisites allowed to the monk, i.e. robes, food, dwelling, and medicine; s. sīla (4).
  • paccaya
  • paccaya-sannissita-sīla: 'morality consisting in the wise use of the monk's requisites'; s. sīla (4).
  • pacceka-bodhi: 'independent enlightenment'; s. the foll. and bodhi.
  • pacceka-buddha
  • pacchājāta-paccaya: 'post-nascence-condition', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  • pādaka-jjhāna
  • pada-parama
  • padhāna
  • padhāniyanga
  • pāguññatā: 'proficiency', namely, of mental concomitants (kāya-pāguññatā), and of consciousness (citta-pāguññatā), are 2 mental phenomena associated with all advantageous consciousness. Cf. Tab. II.
  • pahāna
  • pahāna-pariññā; s. pariññā.
  • pain, feeling of: s. vedanā.
  • pakati-sīla: 'natural or genuine morality', is distinct from those outward rules of conduct laid down for either laymen or monks. Those later are the so-called 'prescribed morality' (paññāttisīla). Cf. sīla.
  • pakati-upanissaya: 'direct inducement'; s. paccaya.
  • palibodha
  • pamsukūlik'anga: the 'vow to wear only robes made from picked-up rags', is one of the ascetic rules of purification; s. dhutanga.
  • pānātipātā veramanī: 'abstaining from the killing of living beings', is the first of the 5 moral rules binding upon all Buddhists; s. sikkhāpada.
  • pañcadvārāvajjana: 'advertence to the 5-sense-doors'; s. viññāna-kicca.
  • pañca-sīla: s. sikkhāpada.
  • pañca-vokāra-bhava
  • pañhā-byākarana: 'answering questions'. "There are, o monks, 4 ways of answering questions: there are questions requiring a direct answer; questions requiring an explanation; questions to be answered by counter-questions; questions to be rejected (as wrongly put)." See D.33; A.III.68; A.IV.42.
  • paññā
  • paññatti-sīla: 'prescribed morality', is a name for the disciplinary rules of the monk or layman prescribed by the Buddha, as distinguished from natural or genuine morality (pakati-sīla; s. sīla).
  • paññā-vimutti
  • papañca
  • parāmāsa
  • paramattha
  • paramī, pāramitā
  • paranimmita-vasavatti-deva: 'heavenly beings with power over the productions of others', constitute a class of heavenly beings in the sensuous sphere (kāma-loka). Māra is said to be their ruler. Cf. loka, deva I.
  • parassa ceto-pariya-ñāna: 'penetration of the mind of others', is one of the higher powers (abhiññā).

  • paricchinnākāsa-kasina: 'limited-space kasina' = space kasina; s. kasina. (App.).
  • parihāna-dhamma
  • parikamma: 'preparatory-moment': s. javana.
  • parikamma-nimitta: 'preparatory image'; s. nimitta, kasina.
  • parikamma-samādhi: 'preparatory concentration', is the initial and still undeveloped concentration of mind; s. samādhi.
  • parinibbāna
  • pariññā
  • pārisuddhi-padhāniyanga
  • pārisuddhi-sīla
  • parittābha and paritta-subha are 2 classes of heavenly beings of the fine-material sphere; s. deva (II).
  • pariyatti
  • pasāda-rūpa: 'sensitive materiality', is a name for the 5 physical sense-organs responding to sense-stimuli. Cf. Āyatana.
  • passaddhi-sambojjhanga: 'tranquillity, as factor of enlightenment', consists in tranquillity of mental factors (kāya-passaddhi) and tranquillity of consciousness (citta-passaddhi). Cf. bojjhanga; further Tab. II.
  • patched-up robes, the practice of wearing: is one of the ascetic rules of purification (dhutanga).
  • path and not-path, the knowledge and vision regarding: s. visuddhi (V).
  • pathavī-dhātu: 'earth-element'. or 'solid element'. It is cognizable through the sensations of pressure, touch, cold, heat. pain, etc. - About the 4 elements. s. dhātu, khandha (I. A.).
  • pathavī-kasina: 'earth-kasina' (s. kasina).
  • path-condition: magga-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  • path-knowledge, the 4 kinds of: s. visuddhi (VII).
  • path-result (fruition): phala.
  • patibhāga-nimitta: s. nimitta, kasina, samādhi.
  • patibhāna-patisambhidā: the 'analytical knowledge of ready wit': s. patisambhidā.
  • paticcasamuppāda
  • patience, or forbearance (khanti): one of the 10 perfections (pāramī).
  • patigha
  • pātihāriya
  • patikkūla-saññā: s. kāyagatā-sati.
  • pātimokkha
  • pātimokkha-samvara-sīla: 'morality consisting in restraint with regard to the Disciplinary Code' (Pātimokkha, s. prec.). For details, s. sīla.
  • patinissaggānupassanā: 'contemplation on abandonment', is one of the 18 kinds of insight (vipassanā). Further cf. the 16th exercise of anapana-sati.
  • patipadā
  • patipadā-ñānadassana-visuddhi: 'purification by knowledge and vision of the path-progress' forms the 6th stage of purification (visuddhi).
  • patipannaka: 'path-attainer', is he who had reached one of the 4 super mundane paths of holiness (s. ariya-puggala). - (App.)
  • patipatti: practice, or 'pursuance' of the teaching, as distinguished from the mere theoretical knowledge of its wording (pariyatti).
  • patipassaddhi-pahāna: 'overcoming (of defilements) by tranquillization' (s. pahāna).

  • patisambhidā
  • patisandhi patisankhāna-bala and bhāvanā-bala patisankhānupassanā-ñāna: 'knowledge consisting in reflective contemplation"; is one of the 9 knowledges constituting the 'purification by knowledge and vision of the path-progress' (patipadā-ñānadassanavisuddhi; s. visuddhi VI), and one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (mahāvipassanā; s. vipassanā).

  • pativedha
  • patta-pindik'anga: the 'exercise of the bowl-eater', is one of the 13 ascetic purification-exercises (dhutanga), consisting in the vow of using only the alms-bowl for eating, and the rejection of any other vessel.
  • patti-dāna
  • penetration
  • perfections, the 10: pāramī.
  • perfect one, the: tathāgata.
  • performance and avoidance: cāritta-vāritta.
  • permanency, idea of: s. vipallāsa.
  • personality: s. sakkāya. For personality-belief, s. sakkāya ditthi, ditthi, attā, satta, puggala, vipallāsa.
  • perversions, the 4: vipallāsa.
  • peta (Sanskrit preta): lit. 'departed spirit', ghost; s. loka.
  • petti-visaya: 'ghost realm'; s. loka.
  • phala
  • phassa
  • picked-up rags, wearing robes made from: s. dhutanga.
  • pindapātik'anga: The 'practice of going for alms', is one of the 13 ascetic purification-exercises (s. dhutanga).
  • pīta-kasina: 'yellow-kasina', is one of the kasina-exercises; s. kasina.
  • pīti
  • planes of existence, the 3: s. avacara.
  • pleasantness, idea of: s. vipallāsa, subhanimitta.
  • pondering: s. vīmamsā.
  • post-nascence: pacchājāta-paccaya, one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  • postures, the 4 bodily: iriyāpatha.
  • powers
  • practice: For theory, practice and realization, s. pariyatti.
  • predominance and pre-nascence: adhipati, purejāta, are 2 of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  • preparatory concentration (and preparatory image, etc.): s. samādhi, javana.
  • prescribed moral rules: paññatti-sīla.
  • proclivities: s. anusaya.
  • produced materiality: nipphanna-rūpa.
  • productive (or regenerative) karma; s. karma.
  • proficiency (of mental factors and consciousness): pāguññatā.
  • progress
  • progress of the disciple
  • proximity: anantara, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  • pubbenivāsānussati: 'remembrance of former births', is one of the higher powers (abhiññā), and a factor of threefold knowledge (tevijja).
  • puggala
  • pūjā
  • punabbhava
  • puñña
  • puññābhisankhāra: 'meritorious karma-constructions' of the sensuous and fine-material sphere; s. sankhāra I.1.
  • puññā-dhārā
  • puñña-kiriya-vatthu
  • pure abodes: suddhāvāsa.
  • purejāta-paccaya: 'pre-nascence', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  • purification, the 7 stages of; s. visuddhi.
  • purisindriya: 'Virility'; s. bhāva, khandha.
  • purity, the elements of the effort for: pārisuddhipadhāniyanga.
  • puthujjana
  • questions and answers: pañhā-byākarana.

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