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BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - V -
- vācā: 'speech'. On right sp., s. magga (3),
sacca
(IV.3). - Low talk, s. tiracchāna-kathā.
- vacī-kamma:
'verbal action'; s. karma,
kamma-patha.
- vacī-sankhāra
- vacī-viññatti:
s. viññatti.
- vanishing,
Contemplation of: vayānupassanā, is
one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassāna).
- vanishing and reappearing:
knowledge of the v. and r.
of beings according to karma, is identical with the divine eye (s.
abhiññā
5).
- vāritta-sīla:
'morality consisting in avoiding' (evil
things), as distinguished from 'morality consisting in performing' (good
things). See caritta-varitta.
- vasī
- vatta
- vatthu
- vatthu-kāma:
'objective sensuality', the 5
sense-objects; s. kāma.
- vavatthāna
- vayānupassanā:
'contemplation of vanishing', is one of
the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassāna).
- vāyo-dhātu:
'wind-element'; s. dhātu.
- vāyo-kasina
'wind-kasina', is one of the kasina
exercises (kasina).
- vedanā
- vedanānupassanā:
'contemplation of feeling', is one of
the 4 foundations of mindfulness (satipatthāna).
- vehapphala
is the name of a class of heavenly beings in
the fine-material world; s. deva.
- verbal action:
vacī-kamma; s. karma.
- verbal functions of mind:
vacī-sankhāra; s.
sankhāra.
- vesārajja
- vibhajja-vāda
- vibhava ditthi
= uccheda-ditthi; s.
ditthi.
- vibhava-tanhā:
'craving for non-existence', or for
self-annihilation; s. tanhā.
- vicāra:
'discursive thinking'; s.
vitakka-vicāra.
- vicikicchā
- view,
right: sammā-ditthi; s. ditthi,
magga
1, sacca IV.1. - For wrong view, s.
ditthi.
- vigata-paccaya:
'disappearance', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
- vihāra
- vijjā:
'(higher) knowledge', gnosis. For the 3-fold k.,
s. abhiññā and te-vijjā. Cf. foll.
- vijjā-carana
- vikkhambhana-pahāna:
'overcoming by repression' (or
'suspension'), is one of the 5 kinds of overcoming (pahāna).
- vikubbanā-iddhi:
the 'power of transconstruction', is one
of the magical abilities (iddhi).
- vimamsā:
'investigation, inquiry, pondering', is one of
the 4 roads to power (iddhi-pāda) and one of the 4 factors of
predominance (s. paccaya 3).
- vimokkha
- vimutti
- vinipāta
- viññāna
- viññāna-kicca
- viññānañcāyatana:
'sphere of boundless consciousness is
a name for the 2nd meditative absorption in the immaterial sphere (s.
jhāna
6).
- viññāna-tthiti
- viññatti
- vipacitaññu
(or vipañcitaññu): 'one who
realizes the truth after explanation.' Thus is called one who realizes the truth
only after detailed explanation of that which already had been said to him in a
concise form. Cf. ugghatitaññu.
- vipāka
- vipāka-paccaya:
'karma-result condition' is one of the
24 conditions (paccaya).
- vipallāsa
- viparināmānupassanā:
'contemplation of change' (of all
things), is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā).
- vipassanā
- vipassanā-yānika
= sukkha-vipassaka.
- vipassanūpakkilesa:
'imperfections of insight'; s.
visuddhi.
- vipatti
- vippayutta-paccaya:
'dissociation', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
- virāga
- virāgānupassanā:
s. prec.
- virati
- virility:
s. bhāva.
- viriya
- viriya-sambojjhanga:
'energy as factor of enlightenment',
is one of the 7 factors of enlightenment (bojjhanga).
- virtue:
s. sīla.
- visesa-bhāgiya-sīla:
(-samādhi, -paññā):
morality (concentration, wisdom) connected with progress'. For details, s.
hānabhāgiya-sīla.
- visible object:
s. Āyatana.
- visuddhi
- vitakka
- vitakka-vicāra
- vitality:
jīvitindriya; s. indriya,
khandha
(materiality, mental constructions), Tab. II.
- vīthi = citta-vīthi:
'process of consciousness'; s.
viññānakicca.
- vivatta:
'absence of the cycle of existence' (vatta),
standstill of existence, is a name for Nibbāna (s.
nibbāna). - (App.).
- vivatta-kappa:
s. kappa.
- vivattanānupassanā:
'contemplation of the turning
away', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā).
(App.).
- viveka
- viveka-sukha
- vodāna
- vohāra-desanā:
'conventional exposition', as
distinguished from an explanation true in the highest sense (paramattha-desanā). It is also called sammuti-sacca (in Sanskrit samvrti).
(App.).
- void-deliverance;
s. ceto-vimutti.
- vokāra:
s. pañca-vokāra-bhava.
- intention:
cetanā.
- votthapana-citta
- vutthāna-gāminī-vipassanā
- vyāpāda:
'ill-will', is a synonym of dosa (s.
mūla);
it is one of the 5 hindrances (nīvarana) and one of the 10 fetters
(samyojana).
 
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