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BUDDHIST
DICTIONARY - U -
- ubhato-bhāga-vimutta
- uccheda-ditthi: 'annihilation-view'; s. ditthi.
- udayabbayānupassanā-ñāna:
'knowledge consisting in
the contemplation of rise and fall', is the first of the 9 insight-knowledges
constituting the purification by knowledge and vision of the path-progress'. For
details, s. visuddhi VI.1.
- uddhacca
- uddhambhāgiya-samyojana:
the 5 'higher fetters'; s.
samyojana.
- uddhamsota-akanitthagāmī:
'passing upstream to the
highest gods', is one of the 5 kinds of Non-returners (anāgāmī).
- uggaha-nimitta:
s. nimitta.
- ugghatitaññu
- ujukatā:
(kāya-, citta- ): 'uprightness' (of mental
factors and of consciousness), is associated with all pure consciousness. Cf.
Tab. II.
- unconditioned,
the: asankhata. -
Contemplation of the u. (= animitta); s.
vipassanā.
- unconscious beings:
asaññā-satta.
- understanding:
s. ditthi,
ñāna, paññā,
pariññā.
- Right u., s. magga (1).
sacca (IV.1).
- unit:
s. kalāpa,
rūpa-kalāpa.
- unprepared,
unprompted: s. asankhārika-citta.
- unshakable deliverance:
s. cetto-vimutti.
- unshakable one,
the: akuppa-dhamma.
- unthinkable things,
the 4: acinteyya.
- disadvantageous,
karmically: akusala.
- upacāra:
'moment of access'; s. javana.
- upacāra-samādhi:
'neighbourhood or access-concentration',
is the degree of concentration just before entering any of the absorptions, or jhānas.
It still belongs to the sensuous sphere (kāmāvacara; s.
avacara).
- upacaya,
rūpassa: 'growth of materiality'; s.
khandha I; App.
- upacchedaka-kamma:
'destructive karma'; s. karma.
- upādāna
- upādāna-kkhandha:
the 5 'groups of clinging', or more
clearly stated in accordance with Vis.M., 'the 5 groups of existence which form
the objects of clinging'. Cf. M. 44, and see khandha.
- upādā-rūpa:
'derived materiality', signifies the 24
secondary corporeal phenomena dependent on the 4 primary physical elements, i.e.
the sense-organs and sense-objects, etc. See khandha I; App.
- upadhi
- upādi
- upādinna-rūpa
- upaghātaka-kamma:
'destructive karma'; s. karma.
- upahacca-parinibbāyī:
'one who reaches Nibbāna within
the first half of life', is one of the 5 kinds of Anāgāmī (q.v.).
- upakkilesa
- upanissaya-paccaya:
'decisive support' or 'inducement',
is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
- upapajja-vedanīya-kamma:
'karma ripening in the next
birth'; s. karma.
- upapatti-bhava:
'rebirth-process'; s. bhava.
- upapīlaka-kamma:
'suppressive kamma'; s. karma.
- upāsaka
- upasamānussati
- upāsikā:
'female adherent'; s. upāsaka.
- upatthambhaka-kamma:
'supportive karma'; s. karma.
- upavicāra:
s. manopavicāra.
- upekkhā
- upekkhā-ñāna
= sankhārupekkhā-ñāna.
- upekkhā-sambojjhanga:
'equanimity as factor of
enlightenment'; s. bojjhanga.
- upekkhā-sukha:
'equanimous happiness,' is the feeling of
happiness accompanied by a high degree of equanimity (upekkhā) as, e.g.
in the 3rd absorption (jhāna).
- upekkhā-vedanā:
s. vedanā.
- upekkhindriya:
the 'ability of indifference', is one of
the 5 elements of feeling (M.115) and therefore not to be confounded with the
ethical quality 'equanimity', also called upekkhā.
- upekkhopavicāra:
'indulging in indifference'; s.
manopavicāra.
- uposatha
- uprightness:
ujukatā.
- upstream to the highest gods,
passing: s. anāgāmī.
- usages,
the 4 noble: ariya-vamsa.
- utu:
temperature, heat, is identical with the
heat-element (tejodhātu).
- utu-samutthāna
(- utuja)-rūpa: 'materiality
produced by temperature'; s. samutthāna.

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