Abhisamaya: ‘breakthrough or penetration to the realization of the truth’, is the full and direct comprehension of the Four Noble Truths by the Stream-winner sotāpanna see: ariya-puggala. In …

Adhipaññā-dhamma-vipassanā: ‘insight into things based on higher understanding’, is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight see: vipassanā.

Akuppa-dhamma: The unshakeable state; is that of one who has attained full mastery over the absorptions jhāna. In Pug. 4 it is said: What…

…of Stream-entry is called a Dhamma-devotee dhammānusāri see: ariya-puggala, at the next two stages of sainthood he becomes a…

…also subject to ceasing see: Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, see: S. XLVI, 11. In his last exhortation, before his Parinibbāna, the Buddha reminded…

…refuge in the Buddha, his Dhamma-Teaching and the Sangha Community of Bhikkhus; or with a faithful heart observes the rules of morality, or…

…understanding of the law of Dhamma, and attains to joy through the law of Dhamma. In the joyous one rapture arises. With heart enraptured, his…

Aparihāna-dhamma: ‘incapable of relapse’, or ‘of falling away’, namely, with regard to deliverance from some or all mental chains of existence…

Aparihāniya-dhamma: ‘conditions of welfare’ lit. of non-decline, for a nation. Seven such conditions are mentioned in the Mahā-Parinibbāna…

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5: The Dhamma-devotee dhammānusārī,
6: The vision-attainer ditthippatta,
7: The one liberated by…

…An Abhidhamma term signifying a ’state of consciousness arisen spontaneously, i. e. without previous deliberation,…

…the Buddha’s first sermon, The Establishment of the Realm of Dhamma: Dhamma-cakkappavattana-Sutta.

…is explained in the Abhidhamma commentaries as the foundation or condition kārana of existence bhava, as the sine, qua of life, having…

…Sutta, as well as in the Abhidhamma.

Tranquillity samatha is the concentrated, unshaken, peaceful, and therefore undefiled state of mind, whilst…

Bodhi: from verbal root budhi to awaken, to understand: awakening, enlightenment, supreme knowledge. Through Bodhi one awakens from the slumber or stupor inflicted upon the mind by the defilemen …

Bodhipakkhiya-dhammā: The 37 ‘things pertaining to enlightenment’, or ‘requisites of enlightenment’ comprise the entire doctrines of the Buddha. They are:

the 4 foundations of awarenes …

…in the 2nd factor, dhamma - vicaya the word dhamma is taken by most translators to stand for the Buddhist doctrine, it probably…

…the Buddha’s first sermon, Dhamma-cakkappavattana Sutta see: dhamma-cakka.

Another figurative meaning of C. is ‘blessing’. There are 4 such…

…see: khandha the Abhidhamma as a rule treats them under the more philosophical 3 aspects: consciousness, mental properties and materiality…

…Tab. II taught in the Abhidhamma, the moral quality of which is determined by the character of the intention cetanā associated therewith. The…

Fixity: see: niyama tathatā dhamma-tthiti-ñāna

…however, even in the Abhidhamma Pitaka, no such base is ever localized, a fact which seems to have first been discovered by Shwe Zan Aung…

…smile, is found in the Abhidhammattha Sangaha as a name for the joyful mind-consciousness element manoviññāna - dhātu Tab. I. 72 arising…

…condition, reason; Abhidhamma root-condition. In sutta usage it is almost synonymous with paccaya ‘condition’, and often occurs together…

…Suttas as well as in the Abhidhamma. They are:

6 Bases āyatana:

1. eye: cakkhu
2. ear: sota
3. nose: ghāna
   4….

…‘expression with an established meaning’: nītattha-dhamma see: neyyattha-dhamma

…and one of the 4 predominants adhipati s paccaya 3. - i. of truth: dhamma - vicaya is one of the 7 factors of enlightenment…

…abhiññā.

In the Abhidhamma, generally a fivefold instead of a fourfold division of the fine-material absorptions is used: the 2nd…

…the last book of the Abhidhamma Pitaka comprising 6 large vols. in the Siamese edition, these 24 modes of conditionality are enumerated and…

…investigation of the law dhamma - vicaya energy viriya rapture pīti tranquillity passaddhi concentraton samādhi equanimity…

…A. VIII, 30 has:,This Dhamma is for one who delights in non-diffuseness the unworldly, Nibbāna; it is not for him who delights in…

…characteristics of the Abhidhamma Pitaka, in distinction from most of the Sutta Pitaka, that it does not employ conventional language, but deals…

Parihāna-dhamma: ‘liable to decline’.;Now, someone reaches the attainments absorptions: jhāna of the fine-material or immaterial sphere…

…And further M. 28: ’Whoso understands the dependent origination understands the Dhamma; and whoso understands the Dhamma understands the…

…knowledge’ of the law dhamma - patisambhidā The knowledge of the cause is the ‘analytical knowledge’ of the law dhamma -…

…of the truth of the Dhamma, as distinguished from the mere acquisition of its wording pariyatti or the practice patipatti of it, in…

…of worship: in a material way āmisa - pūjā and through practice of the Dhamma dhamma - pūjā The worship through practice of the…

…rasa-, photthabba-, dhamma-tanhā* M. 9; D. 15

Corresponding to the 3-fold existence, there are 3 kinds: craving for sensual existence…

…Sutta Pitaka and the Basket ot Philosophy Abhidhamma Pitaka.

…things, are the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Noble Sangha.’ i.e.: the Enlightened One; the law of deliverance discovered, realized and proclaimed by…

…saranam gacchāmi

Dhammam saranam gacchāmi
Sangham saranam gacchāmi

I take refuge in the Buddha!
I take refuge…

…According to Abhidhamma philosophy, endless space has no objective reality being purely conceptual, which is indicated by the fact that…

…According to the Abhidhamma, this path -moment of the Stream-enterer sotāpanna & the other Nobles is generated by the insight into the…

Ārammana: Object. There are six: visible object, sound, odour, taste, body-contact, mental-object. The mental-object dhammārammana may be physical or mental, past, present or future, real or …

…‘mental-object-element’ dhamma-dhātu, dhātu II-17 and dhammārammana see: ārammana. It may be physical or mental, past, present or…