Abandonment: contemplation of: patinissaggānupassanā is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight; see: vipassanā further ānāpānasati 16.

Abhiññā: The 6 ‘higher powers’, or supernormal knowledge’s, consist of 5 mundane lokiya powers attainable through the utmost perfection in mental concentration samādhi and one supra-mundane * …

Adaptation-knowledge: anuloma-ñāna

Anattā: No-self, egolessness, soullessness, impersonality, absence of identity, is the last of the 3 universal characteristics of existence ti-lakkhana. This anattā doctrine, which only is t …

Anattānupassanā: C ontemplation of no-self is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight see: vipassanā. See also above.

Anicca: Impermanent, transient or, as abstract noun, aniccatā impermanence or change is the first of the three universal characteristics of existence tilakkhana, which is easily observable and …

Aniccānupassanā: C ontemplation of impermanence, is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight development see: vipassanā.

Animittānupassanā: see: vipassanā

Anuloma-citta: ‘adaptation-moment of consciousness’, denotes the third of the 4 moments of impulsion javana flashing up immediately before…

Anuloma-ñāna: ‘adaptation-knowledge’ or conformity-knowledge, is identical with the ‘adaptation-to-truth knowledge’, the last of 9…

Anupassanā: Contemplation, deep reflection, profound consideration:
The 4 fold: see: satipatthāna.
The 18 fold: see: vipassanā.
The…

Anupubba-nirodha: The 9 ‘successive ceasings’, are the 8 ceasings reached through the 8 absorptions jhāna and the ceasing of feeling and…

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Anupādisesa-nibbāna: see Nibbāna & upādi

Anurakkhana-padhāna: the ‘effort to maintain’ advantageous states; see: padhāna

Anusaya: The 7 ‘latent tendencies’, hidden inclinations, or latent liabilities are:

1: The latent tendency to sense-greed kāma-rāga…

Anussati: ‘recollection’, reflection, meditation, contemplation. The six recollections often described in the Suttas e.g. A. VI, 10, 25; D. 33…

Appanihita-vimokkha: D esireless mental release see: *vimokkha

_ Appanihitānupassanā: Contemplation of desirelessness see: _vipassanā*

Ariya-puggala: or simply Ariya: Noble Ones, noble persons:
The 8, Ariya = Noble Ones are those who have realized one of the 8 stages of Nobility, i.e. the 4 supra-mundane paths magga …

…and latent tendencies anusaya. It is often called a hindrance nīvarana e.g. in S. XV, 3; A. X, 61 but does not appear together with the…

Bhangānupassanā-ñāna: ‘knowledge consisting in contemplation of dissolution’ of all forms of existence, is one kind of insight: see: visuddhi VI, 2.

…10 recollections anussati: of the Buddha buddhānussati, the Doctrine dhammānussati, the Brotherhood of the Noble Ones…

Buddhānussati: ‘recollection of the Enlightened One’; see: anussati

Cittānupassanā: ‘contemplation of consciousness’, is one of the 4 foundations of awareness or mindfulness satipatthāna

[[consciousness: viññāna]]Consciousness: viññāna see: khandha citta mano q v - Moment of °: citta-kkhana Contemplation of °: cittānupassanā: satipatthāna - Materiality produced by °: *c …

Contemplation: see: anupassanā.

…‘foundations’ see: adhitthāna, recollections’ see: anussati, treasures’ see: dhana.

Emptiness: Suññatā - Contemplation of e.: suññatānupassanā - For emptiness of self, pertaining to the 4 truths, see: sacca.

Feeling: vedanā, further see: khandha - Contemplation of f.: vedanānupassanā see: satipatthāna.

[[gradual instruction]]Gradual instruction: Ānupubbīkathā

Inclinations: see: anusaya

…upacāra adaptation anuloma and change-of-lineage-moment gotrabhū In connection with entering the earth-kasina absorption see:…

Paccaya: ‘condition’, is something on which something else, the so-called ‘conditioned thing’, is dependent, and without which the latter cannot be. Many are the ways in which one thing, or one o …

…- padhāna 4 to maintain anurakkhana - padhāna i.e. 1 the effort to avoid disadvantageous akusala states, such as evil thoughts, etc. 2…

…by way of object ārammanupanissaya.

8.;Through craving is conditioned clinging; tanhā-paccayā upādānam ‘Clinging’ is explained as an…

…of the latent tendencies anusaya.

2. ‘Sense-reaction’. Applied to five-sense cognition, p.: occurs in the following contexts:

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Patinissaggānupassanā: ’contemplation on relinquishment ’, is one of the 18 kinds of insight vipassanā. Further cf. the 16th exercise of anapana-sati.

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 \ …

Patti-dāna: lit. ‘giving of the acquired’, i.e. ‘transference of merit.’ Though in the older texts very seldom mentioned e.g. A VII, 50, it is, however, a widespread custom in all Buddhist countr …

Pubbenivāsānussati: ‘remembrance of former births’, is one of the higher powers abhiññā, and a factor of threefold knowledge tevijja.

Puthujjana: lit.: ‘one of the many folk’, ‘worldling’, ordinary man, is any layman or Bhikkhu who is still possessed of all the 10 mental chains samyojana binding to the round of rebirths, and t …

Puñña-kiriya-vatthu: ‘bases of meritorious action’. In the suttas, 3 are mentioned consisting of giving generosity; dāna - maya - p of morality sīla - maya - p and of mental de …

…of merit in the world; anuttaram, puññakkhettam see: anussati 3. The Arahats, however, having transcended all life-affirming and…

…the marvel of instruction anusāsanī - p In D. 11, the Buddha says that he sees danger in the first two and therefore abhors them. In A….

Latent tendencies: anusaya

…of the 3 Jewels belong to the 10 contemplations anussati.

[[turning away]]Turning away: contemplation of the: vivattanupassanā see: vipassanā.

Ādīnavānupassanā-ñāna: ‘knowledge consisting in contemplation of danger’, is one of the 8 kinds of insight vipassanā that form the ’purification of the knowledge and vision of the path -progre …

Ānupubbī-kathā: ‘gradual instruction’, progressive teaching; given by the Buddha when it was necessary to first prepare the listener’s mind before speaking to him on the advanced teaching of the …

Ārammanupanissaya: Decisive Support Conditional Relation. see: paccaya

…freed from the mental fermentations through absence of clinging anupādāya āsavehi cittāni vimuccimsū’ti.