encounters; approaches with (physical or verbal)

adjective sitting SN.i.195 = Cnd.136; Snp.1105, Snp.1136; Dhp.227, Dhp.386; Ja.i.390; Ja.iii.95; Ja.v.340; Ja.vi.297; Dāvs ii.17.

pp. of ās, see āsati

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The capital of Kāsi-janapada. It was one of the four places of pilgrimage for the Buddhists - the others being Kapilavatthu, Buddhagayā and Kusināra - because it was at, the Migadā …

Kāḷī¹Kururagharikā

Described among laywomen as the best of those who believe even from hearsay. AN.i.26 A conversation between her and Mahā Kaccāna is related, where she asks him for a det …

eszköz, meditációs tárgy

aggi-m-āsīna

mfn. sitting near a fire

all, whole, entire.

basis or source for total stillness

meditation based on (something) dark blue; a dark blue meditation object; (the jhana) which is or is brought about by meditation based on (something) dark blue.

concentration on the color white; a white meditational device

thirst; craving.

meditation based on fire; the meditation object fire; (the jhana) which is or is brought about by meditation based on fire.

concentration on space, meditation based on space; the meditation object space

meditation based on water; the meditation-object water

Abhibhāyatana: the 8 ‘stages of mastery’, are powers to be obtained by means of the kasina-exercises see: kasina. In the Com. to M. 77, where āyatana is explained by ‘means’ kārana it is sa …

[[acquired image]]Acquired !nimitta samādhi kasina

Bhāvanā: ‘mental development’ lit. ‘calling into existence, producing’ is what in English is generally but rather vaguely called ‘meditation’. One has to distinguish 2 kinds: development of tranqu …

Counter-!nimitta kasina samādhi

Image: mental: see: nimitta, samādhi, kasina.

Javana: fr. javati to impel: ‘impulsion’, is the phase of full cognition in the cognitive series, or perceptual process citta-vīthi see. viññāna-kicca occurring at its climax, if the respe …

Paricchinnākāsa-kasina: ‘limited-space kasina’ = space kasina; see: kasina App..

Parikamma-nimitta: ‘preparatory image’; see: nimitta, kasina.

Pathavī-kasina: ‘earth-kasina’ see: kasina

Patibhāga-nimitta: s. nimitta, kasina, samādhi.

Pīta-kasina: ’yellow- kasina is one of the kasina-exercises; see: kasina

Tejo-kasina: ‘fire-kasina’, is one of the 10 kasina exercises; see: kasina.

Ākāsa-kasina: ‘space-kasina exercise’; see: kasina

Ākāsa: ‘space’, is, according to Com., of two kinds: 1. limited space paricchinnākāsa or paricchedākāsa, 2. endless space anantākāsa, i.e. cosmic space.

1. Limited space, under th …

Āloka-kasina: L ight-kasina-meditation on bright light or the white color; see: kasina

sword, a large knife DN.i.77 (= DN-a.i.222); MN.ii.99; AN.i.48 = (asinā sīsaṃ chindante); AN.iv.97 (asinā hanti attānaṃ); Ja.iv.118 (asi sunisito), Ja.iv.184; Ja.v.45 (here meaning “sickle”), Ja.v.47 …

Dosa¹

corruption blemish, fault, bad condition, defect; depravity, corrupted state; usually -˚, as khetta˚ blight of the field Mil.360; tiṇa˚ spoilt by weeds Dhp.356; Pv-a.7; visa ill ef …

…DN-a.i.72 (= gāma-vāsīnaṃ dhamma?); -poddava (variant reading kāmapudava) a shampooer (? Vin. Texts iii.66;…

Hanati¹ & hanti

1. to strike, to thresh SN.iv.201; Ja.iv.102
2. to kill DN.i.123; AN.iv.97 (asinā hanti attānaṃ); Snp.125; Dhp.405; maggaṃ˚; to slay travellers on the road Ja.i.274; Ja.ii …

Jhāna¹

neuter literally meditation. But it never means vaguely meditation It is the technical term for a special religious experience reached in a certain order of mental states. It was or …

Kasiṇa¹

adjective entire, whole Ja.iv.111, Ja.iv.112.

Vedic kṛtsna

Kasiṇa²

neuter one of the aids to kammaṭṭhāna, the practice by means of which myst …

adjective noun

1. (adj.) hard, firm, stiff Cp.ii.2; Dhs.44, Dhs.45 (where also der. f. abstr. akaṭhinatā absence of rigidity, combined with akakkhalatā, cp Dhs-a.151 akaṭhina-bhāva); Pv-a.152 (˚dā …

1. to be patient, to endure, to forgive (acc. of object and gen. of person): n’ âhaṃ bhayā khamāmi Vepacittino (not do I forgive V. out of fear) SN.i.221 SN.i.222; aparādhaṃ kh. to forgive a fault Ja. …

adjective noun

1. (adj.) red: rarely by itself (e.g. MN.ii.17), usually in compounds e.g. -abhijāti the red species (q.v.) AN.iii.383; -kasiṇa the artifice of red DN.iii.268; AN.i.41; Dhs.203; …

1. circle DN.i.134 (paṭhavi˚, cp. puthavi˚ Snp.990); Vism.143 (˚ṃ karoti to draw a circle, in simile), Vism.174 (tipu˚ & rajata˚ lead- & silver circle, in kasiṇa practice); Vv-a.147 (of a fan = tāla …

…Cnd.136#a (nagassa passe āsīna, of the Buddha); Snp.180 (= devapabbata royal mountain Snp-a.216; or should it mean “forest”?); Thag.41…

adjective “shining,” resembling, like Ja.iii.320 (aggi-nikāsinā suriyena).

cp. Sk. nikāśin; fr. ni + kāsati

adjective dark-blue, blue-black blue-green. Nīla serves as a general term to designate the “coloured-black,” as opposed to the “colouredwhite” (pīta yellow), which pairs (nīla-pīta) are both set …

adjective

clean, white, prominently applied to the dress as a sign of distinction (white), or special purity at festivities, ablutions & sacrificial functions DN.ii.18 (uṇṇā, of the Buddha), DN.iii.2 …

“doing round,” i.e. doing up, viz (1.) arrangement, getting up, preparation Vin.ii.106 (˚ṃ kārāpeti), Vin.ii.117 (geruka˚ plastering with red chalk), Vin.ii.151 (id.). parikammaṃ karoti to make (the …

the earth. Acc to Cnd.389 syn. with jagati. It figures as the first element in enumⁿ of the 4 elements (see dhātu 1), viz p., āpo, tejo, vāyo (earth, water, fire, wind or …

*Pura

base of adv. & prep. denoting “before”; abl. purato (adv. & prep. in front of (with gen.), before (only local) Vin.i.179 Vin.ii.32; DN.ii.14 (mātu); SN.i.137; Pv.i.11#1, Pv …

1. a son SN.i.210; Snp.35, Snp.38, Snp.60, Snp.557, Snp.858; Dhp.62, Dhp.84 Dhp.228, Dhp.345; Ja.iv.309; Vism.645 (simile of 3 sons); Pv-a.25, Pv-a.63, Pv-a.73 sq.; DN-a.i.157 (dāsaka˚). Four kind …

Pīta¹

1. having drunk or (pred.) being drunk (as liquid) SN.i.212 (madhu˚); Ja.i.198; Pv-a.25 (with asita, khāyita & sāyita as fourfold food).
2. soaked or saturated with (-˚), in *kasāya …

adjective (f. saññinī) conscious, being aware of (-˚), perceiving, having perception DN.i.31, DN.i.180; DN.iii.49 DN.iii.111, DN.iii.140, DN.iii.260; SN.i.62; AN.ii.34, AN.ii.48, AN.ii.50; AN.iii.35; …

adjective

1. trembling, frightened Ja.i.336 = Ja.i.344 (vakā, expl. at Ja.i.342 by tasita); perhaps the derived meaning of:
2. moving, running (cp. to meaning 1 & 2 Gr.; τρέω to flee & to tremble), a …

Tasita¹

dried up, parched, thirsty SN.ii.110, SN.ii.118; Snp.980, Snp.1014 (not with Fausböll = tasita²); Ja.iv.20; Pv.ii.9#36 (chāta +), Pv.ii.10#3 (= pipāsita Pv-a.143); Pv. …

thirst; fig. craving (see taṇhā SN.v.54, SN.v.58; Cnd.479 (to be read for tasitā?); Dhp.342, Dhp.343.

Diaeretic form of taṇhā, cp. dosiṇā → juṇhā, kasiṇa → kṛtsṇa, etc.

(lit.) drought, thirst; (fig.) craving, hunger for, excitement the fever of unsatisfied longing (c. loc.: kabaḷinkāre āhāre “thirst” for solid food SN.ii.101 sq.; cīvare piṇḍapāte taṇhā = greed for Sn …

Teja & Tejo

“sharpness,” heat, flame, fire, light; radiance, effulgence splendour, glory, energy, strength, power DN.ii.259 (personified as deva, among the 4 Elements paṭhavī, āpo, t., vāyo; cp. tejo …

Teja & Tejo

“sharpness,” heat, flame, fire, light; radiance, effulgence splendour, glory, energy, strength, power DN.ii.259 (personified as deva, among the 4 Elements paṭhavī, āpo, t., vāyo; cp. tejo …

adjective indifferent, passive, neutral Dhs-a.129.

ud + āsīna, pp. of ās to sit; lit. sit apart, be indifferent

adjective noun half Vin.i.281 (˚kāsina); Vin.ii.200 (˚āsana); Ja.iii.11 (˚rajja); Vism.320 (˚gāma); Dhp-a.i.15 Dhp-a.i.205 (˚uposathakamma); Dhp-a.ii.85; Kp-a.239 (˚gāthā); Snp-a.298; Vv-a.38, V …

…upāyanti C.). Cp. payirupāsati
pp upāsita & upāsīna; (q.v.). See also upāsaka, upāsana¹.

upa…

sitting near or close to Ja.v.336.

pp. of upāsati

primary meaning “to increase” (trs. intrs.); hence: to keep on, to prosper, to multiply, to grow SN.i.15 (read vaḍḍh˚ for vaṭṭ˚); SN.ii.206 (vaṇṇena), SN.iv.73, SN.iv.250; AN.v.249 (paññāya); Snp.329 …

appearance etc (lit. “cover, coating”). There is a considerable fluctuation of meaning, especially between meanings 2, 3, 4. One may group as follows.

1. colour Snp.447 (meda˚); SN.v.216 (chavi˚ of t …

1. answered, explained, declared, decided MN.i.431 (by˚); AN.i.119; SN.ii.51, SN.ii.223 SN.iv.59, SN.iv.194; SN.v.177; Snp.1023
   ■ avyākata unexplained undecided, not declare …

wind DN.iii.268 (˚kasiṇa) MN.i.1, MN.i.424 = AN.iv.375; AN.v.7, AN.v.318, AN.v.353 sq. (˚saññā) SN.iii.207; Vism.172 (˚kasiṇa), Vism.350 (def.). On vāyo as t. t. for mobility, mobile principle (one of …

adverb

1. (as prep.) up to (a point), as far as, how far so far that (cp. tāva I), both temporal and local, used either with absolute form of noun or adj. (base), or nom., or abl. or *acc …

Ākāsa¹

air, sky, atmosphere; space. On the concept see Cpd. 5, 16, 226. On a fanciful etym. of ākāsa (fr. ā + kassati of kṛṣ) at Dhs-a.325 see Dhs trsl. 178. DN.i.55 (˚ṃ indriyāni …

Āpa & Āpo

neuter water; philosophically t. t. for cohesion, representative of one of the 4 great elements (cp. mahābhūta), viz. paṭhavī, āpo, tejo vāyo: see Cpd. 268 & Dhs trsl. 201, also below …

Āpa & Āpo

neuter water; philosophically t. t. for cohesion, representative of one of the 4 great elements (cp. mahābhūta), viz. paṭhavī, āpo, tejo vāyo: see Cpd. 268 & Dhs trsl. 201, also below …

to sit DN-a.i.208; h. sg. āsi SN.i.130. - pp. āsīna (q.v.).

from as

*Āsita¹

“having eaten”, but probably māsita (pp. of mṛś to touch, cp. Sk. mṛśita, which is ordinarily in massita), since it only occurs in comb^ns. where m precedes, viz. Ja …