Abhabbāgamana: ‘incapable of progressing’. Those beings who are obstructed by their evil actions kamma see. kamma, by their defilements…

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 …

…patha*…

Abhinibbatti: a Sutta term for rebirth; see: punabbhava

…’ are: the path of desire chanda, the path of hate, the path of confusion, the path of fear bhaya. One who is freed from these evil…

…either by greed lobha, hate dosa or confusion moha or derivatives thereof. All these mental states are causing disadvantageous…

…term designating advantageous (beautiful) mental property is sobhana-sādhārana-cetasika see: sobhana.

Alobha: G reedlessness is one of the 3 kammically advantageous roots mūla.

[[analytical doctrine]]Analytical doctrine: vibhajja-vāda

…for continued existence bhava-rāga,
7: The latent tendency to ignorance avijjā D. 33; A. VII, 11, 12.

These things are called ’latent…

Appamāna-ceto-vimutti: Infinite mental release see: ceto-vimutti

Appamāna-subha: a kind of divine being: see: deva II.

Appamānābha: a kind of divine being; see: deva II.

…both-ways-liberated one ubhato-bhāga-vimutta.

5: He who is filled with understanding and, in considering the constructions…

Arūpa-bhava: Formless becoming see: Becoming bhava, and worlds loka.

…on impurity asubha - kammatthāna; see. bhāvanā. In the Girimananda Sutta A. X., 50, however, the perception of impurity…

…the craving for existence bhava-tanhā (see tanhā ). Craving and ignorance are called the outstanding causes or creators of the kamma that…

…magga. See Dhs. PTS 362-364, 505, 553; Indriya Vibhanga; path 162.

Beautiful: sobhana.

…through the perception of: cf. vimokkha II. 3 To hold for beautiful or pure subha what is impure asubha, is one of the 4 perversions see:…

Being: living: satta, further see: puggala. - Belief in eternal personality: bhava-ditthi see: ditthi, sassata-ditthi.

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

Bhava-ditthi: ‘belief in being’ eternal personality; see: sassataditthi, ditthi

…existence rūpa-bhava, immaterial existence arūpa-bhava. Cf. loka.

The whole process of existence may be divided into two…

Bhava-tanhā: ‘craving for eternal existence’; see: tanhā

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

…term in Western psychology. Bhavanga bhava-anga, which, in the canonical works, is mentioned twice or thrice in the Patthāna, is explained in…

Bhavāsava: ‘fermentation of existence’; see: āsava

Bhayatupatthāna-ñāna: ‘knowledge consisting in the awareness of terror’, is one of those kinds of insight-knowledge that form the…

Bhāva: feminine and masculine ‘nature’, refers to the sexual characteristics of the body, and belongs to the group of materiality see: khandha. It is a commentarial term for the abilities of fem …

Bhāvanā-bala: see: patisankhāna-bala

Bhāvanā-maya-paññā: understanding based on mental development’; see: paññā

…10 loathsome subjects asubha. These produce the 1st absorption.

10 recollections anussati: of the Buddha buddhānussati,…

[[birth process]]Birth process: upapatti-bhava: see: bhava. Further see: patisandhi, jāti

…and in the Jhāna Vibhanga, only the 7 factors of enlightenment bojjhanga.

See The Requisites of Enlightenment, by Ledi…

[[both-ways liberated]]Both-ways liberated: see: ubhato-bhāga-vimutta ariyapuggala B. 4.

Brahma-vihāra: the 4 ‘sublime’ or ‘divine abodes’, also called the 4 Infinite states appamaññā are: loving-kindness mettā Pity karunā, altruistic or sympathetic joy muditā equanimity *up …

Cakka: ‘wheel’, is one of the seven ‘precious possessions’ ratana of a righteous World Emperor cakkavatti ‘He who owns the Wheel,’ cf. D. 26, and symbolizes conquering progress and expanding s …

…there, the materiality group being absent. Cf. pañca-vokāra-bhava, eka-vokāra-bhava App.: vokāra.

…thiti and dissolving bhanga moment. One such moment is said in the commentaries to be of inconceivably short duration and to last not…

…possess only the materiality-group. Cf. catu-vokāra-bhava pañca-vokāra-bhava.

Existence: bhava - The 5 groups of e.: khandha - The 4 substrata of e.: upadhi - Courses of e.: gati - Wheel of e.:…

Femininity: s bhāva indriya

fetters = Mental chains: The 10 f. binding to existence; see: samyojana

[[five-group existence]]Five-group existence: pañca-vokāra-bhava

[[four-group existence]]Four-group existence: catu-vokāra-bhava

Greed: lobha

Hāna-bhāgiya-sīla: - samādhi b h. b. p aññā morality, concentration or understanding connected with decline. The other three stages are: thiti-bhāgiya-sīla etc. morality, etc. connected …

[[impurity of the body]]Impurity of the body: contemplation of the: see: asubha, sīvathikā.

…mano

Gender bhava:

7. femininity: itthi
8. masculinity: purisa
9. vitality: jīvita

5 Feelings…

Itthindriya: ‘femininity’; see: bhāva

…stream of being bhavanga-sota, there arises the ‘directing at the mind-door’ manodvārāvajjana see: viññānakicca, taking as…

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 …

…birth; D. 22. For its conditioning by the prenatal kamma-making kamma-bhava see. bhava paticcasamuppāda 9, 10, patisandhi

…stream of existence bhavanga-sota. Then, breaking off the stream of existence, mental directing manodvārāvajjana arises at the…

…roots, i.e, of greed lobha, hate dosa confusion moha or greedlessness alobha hatelessness adosa unconfusedness amoha For the…

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 …

…by repression vikkhambhana-pahāna i.e. the temporary suspension of the 5 hindrances nīvarana during the absorptions, 2 overcoming by…

Parittābha: and paritta-subha: are 2 classes of divine beings of the fine-material sphere; see: deva II.

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

Patibhāna-patisambhidā: the ‘analytical knowledge of ready wit’: see: patisambhidā

…Process of Becoming bhava

kamma-making kammabhava

5 causes: 1,2,8,9,10

FUTURE

11. Rebirth jāti

12. Old Age and Death…

Patisambhidā: ‘analytical knowledge’ or ‘discrimination’, is of 4 kinds: analytical knowledge of the true meaning attha-patisambhidā of the law dhamma - patisambhidā, of language nirutti …

…rebirth are chiefly punabbhava, ‘renewed existence’, and abhinibbatti ‘arising’; or both combined as punabbhavābhinibbatti - App.:…

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 …

Pañca-vokāra-bhava: ‘five-group existence’, is a name for existence in the sense-sphere kāmāvacara or in the fine-material sphere…

Paññā: ‘understanding, knowledge, understanding, insight’, comprises a very wide field. The specific Buddhist knowledge or understanding, however, as part of the Noble 8-fold path magga to deli …

Penetration: s. pativedha pariyatti - For the power of penetrating vipphāra knowledge and concentration, see: iddhi - For morality combined with penetration nibbedha see: *hāna-bhāgiy …

Pleasantness: idea of: see: vipallāsa, subhanimitta.

Progress: s. patipadā, abhabbagamana - p. in morality, etc., see: hānabhāgiya etc. - Purification by knowledge and vision of path…

…natthi dāni punabbhavo M. 26; D. 15; Therag. 87, 339; Sn. 502. - The term is often linked with abhinibbatti ‘arising’.

But how, o…

Purisindriya: ‘Virility’; see: bhāva khandha

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 …

…Ch. 17 Khuddakavatthu-Vibhanga.

According to the dependent origination, craving is conditioned by feeling; on this see D. 22 section on the…

Tathatā: ‘Suchness’, designates the firmly fixed nature bhāva of all things whatever. The only passage in the Canon where the word occurs in this sense, is found in Kath. 186 see: Guide, p. 83. …

Thiti-bhāgiya-sīla, Thiti-bhāgiya-samādhi, Thiti-bhāgiya-paññā: ‘static morality, static concentration, static understanding’; see: hāna-bhāgiya-sīla

thought, Thought-conception: s …

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

Ābhassara: The ‘Radiant Ones’, are a class of divine beings of the fine-material world rūpa-loka, cf. deva

…of desiring existence bhavāsava, Ex: ‘Being is good’
3: The mental fermentation of wrong views ditthāsava, Ex: ‘My opinion is best’ …

…or kamma-becoming kamma-bhava see. Vis.M XVII, IX, X. Or, the intentions during the first six impulse-moments javana depending on one and…