Abbhokāsik’anga: ‘living in the open air’, is one of the ascetic means to purification dhutānga.

[[alms-bowl eater]]Alms-Food-bowl eater: the practice of the: see: dhutānga 6.

Alms-Food-goer: the practice of the; see: dhutānga 3.

Alms-Food er: V ow of going for alms-food without omitting any house: see: dhutānga 3, 4.

[[ascetic purification practices]]Ascetic purification practices: see: dhutānga

Aññā: ‘highest knowledge’, gnosis, refers to the perfect knowledge of the Arahat Saint; see: ariya-puggala. The following passage occurs frequently in the Suttas, when a Bhikkhu indicates his a …

Bala: ‘powers’. Among various groups of powers the following five are most frequently met with in the texts: 1 faith saddhā, 2 energy viriya, 3 awareness or mindfulness sati, 4 concentration …

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

Bhavanga-santāna: ‘continuity of subconsciousness’; see: santāna

Bhavanga-sota: and Bhavanga-citta: The first term may tentatively be rendered as the ‘undercurrent forming the condition of being, or existence’, and the second as ‘subconsciousness’, though …

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 …

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 …

Bojjhanga: ‘the 7 factors of enlightenment’, are: awareness or mindfulness sati-sambojjhanga, sati, investigation of the law dhamma-vicaya-sambojjhanga energy viriya-sambojjhanga, *vir …

Cemetery: ascetic practice of living in a c.; see: dhutānga.

Citta-kkhana: ‘consciousness-moment’, is the time occupied by one single stage in the perceptual process or cognitive series cittavīthi see: viññāna-kicca This moment again is subdivided in …

Effort: the 4 right e.: samma - ppadhāna see: padhāna Right e. see: sacca IV 6, magga 6. - 5 elements of e.: padhāniyanga

[[ekāsanik’anga]]Ekāsanik’anga: the exercise of eating at one sitting, is one of the ascetic practices; see: dhutānga

Energy: viriya, further see: bojjhanga, bala, pāramī

Enlightenment: bodhi - The 7 elements of e.: bojjhanga - A being destined for e.: Bodhisatta.

Factors: mental: see: cetasika - F. of absorption, see: jhāna - F. of enlightenment, see: bojjhanga.

abilities = Abilities: indriya, see also paccaya 16.

Favour: 4 ways of showing sangaha-vatthu

Food: material: is one of the 4 nutriments āhāra. Foodproduced materiality, see: samutthāna - Refusing all further f., see: dhutānga - Loathsomeness of f. see: āhārepatikkūla - saññā

Forest-dweller: the ascetic practice for the: see: dhutānga

formation = Construction: sankhāra

Foundation: nissaya one of the 24 conditions paccaya,. Wrong f. of morality, see: nissaya f. of sympathy: sangaha-vatthu f. f orming absorptions: pādaka-jjhāna, - f. o …

Hasituppāda-citta: lit. ‘consciousness producing mirth’ smile, is found in the Abhidhammattha Sangaha as a name for the joyful mind-consciousness element manoviññāna - dhātu Tab. I. 72 aris …

Investigation: full understanding through: tīranapariññā see: pariññā - ‘Investigation’ vīmamsā is one of the 4 roads to power iddhipāda and one of the 4 predominants adhipati s *paccay …

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 …

Jhāna: ‘absorption’ meditation refers chiefly to the four meditative absorptions of the fine-material sphere rūpa-jjhāna or rūpāvacara - jjhāna avacara They are achieved through the att …

Jhānanga: ‘constituents or factors of absorption’; see: prec.

Paccavekkhana-ñāna: ‘retrospective knowledge’, refers to the recollected mental image obtained in concentration, or to any inner experience just passed, as for instance, any absorption jhāna, o …

Padhāna: ‘effort.’ The 4 right efforts samma - padhāna forming the 6th stage of the 8-fold path i.e. sammā - vāyāma see: magga are: 1 the effort to avoid samvara-padhāna 2 to overc …

Padhāniyanga: ‘elements of effort’, are the following 5 qualities: faith, health, sincerity, energy, and understanding M. 85, 90; A. V. 53. See pārisuddhi-padhāniyanga.

Pahāna: ‘overcoming’, abandoning. There are 5 kinds of overcoming: 1 overcoming by repression vikkhambhana-pahāna i.e. the temporary suspension of the 5 hindrances nīvarana during the absorpt …

[[pamsukūlik’anga]]Pamsukūlik’anga: the ‘vow to wear only robes made from picked-up rags’, is one of the ascetic rules of purification; see: dhutānga

Passaddhi: passaddhi-sambojjhanga: :* * ‘tranquillity, as link to Awakening’, consists in tranquillity of mental properties kāya-passaddhi and tranquillity of consciousness citta - *passa …

[[patched-up robes]]Patched-up robes: the practice of wearing: is one of the ascetic rules of purification dhutānga.

Paticcasamuppāda: ‘dependent origination’, is the doctrine of the conditionality of all physical and psychical phenomena, a doctrine which, together with that of impersonality anattā, forms the …

Patisandhi: lit. ‘reunion, relinking’, i.e. rebirth, is one of the 14 functions of consciousness viññāna-kicca. It is a kamma-resultant type of consciousness and arises at the moment of concep …

Patisankhāna-bala: and Bhāvanā-bala: ‘power of reflection’, and ‘power of mental development’. About these 2 powers it is said in A. II, 10:

What, o Bhikkhus, is the power of reflection? If …

[[patta-pindik’anga]]Patta-pindik’anga: the ‘exercise of the bowl-eater’, is one of the 13 ascetic purification-exercises dhutānga, consisting in the vow of using only the food-bowl for eat …

[[picked-up rags]]Picked-up rags: wearing robes made from: see: dhutānga.

[[pindapātik’anga]]Pindapātik’anga: The ‘practice of going for food’, is one of the 13 ascetic purification-exercises see: dhutānga

Purity: the elements of the effort for: pārisuddhipadhāniyanga

Pārisuddhi-padhāniyanga: the 4 ‘elements of the effort for purity’, are: effort for purity of morality sīla - parisuddhi - padhāniyanga for purity of mind citta of view ditthi of deli …

Pīti: rapture, enthusiasm rendered also by joy, happiness; interest it is one of the mental properties or properties cetasika and belongs to the group of mental constructions sankhāra - *khan …

Pūjā: 1 honour, respect, homage, 2 worship, devotional observances, devotional offerings; also offerings to Bhikkhus.

1: The Mahā-mangala Sutta Sn. 259 says that;Honour and respect towards those …

Tadanga-pahāna: ‘overcoming by the opposite’, is one of the 5 kinds of overcoming pahāna,.

Tanhā: lit. ‘thirst’: ‘craving’, is the chief root of suffering, and of the ever-continuing cycle of rebirths.;What, o Bhikkhus, is the origin of suffering? It is that craving which gives rise to …

[[te-cīvarik’anga]]Te-cīvarik’anga: ‘practice of the three-rober’, is one of the ascetical means for purificaton dhutānga.

Tranquillity: of mind: see: samatha, samatha - vipassanā, bhāvanā, bojjhanga - ‘One who has taken t. as his vehicle’: samathayānika

Tree: Living under a tree is one of the ascetical practices dhutānga.

Ānāpāna-sati: Awareness or mindfulness on & by in-and-out-breathing, is one of the most important trainings for reaching mental concentration and the 4 absorptions jhāna. In the Satipatthāna …

Āraññikanga: The training of living in the forest, is one of the ascetic purification-exercises dhutānga.