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

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…

Abhijjhā: ‘covetousness=greediness=acquisitiveness=jealousy & envy’ is a synonym of lobha and tanhā see: mūla and is the 8th link of the disadvantageous courses of action see: kamma-patha I.

Abhinibbatti: a Sutta term for rebirth; see: punabbhava

Agati: the 4 ’wrong Paths ’ 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 impulses is no longer liable to ta …

Akusala: Disadvantageous, are all those kammic intentions kamma - cetanā see: cetanā and all consciousness and mental properties associated therewith, which are accompanied either by greed …

Akusala-sādhārana-cetasika: Universal, general or primary disadvantageous mental properties associated with all disadvantageous intentions: These are four; 1: Lack of moral shame ahirika, 2: L …

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

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

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

1: The latent tendency to sense-greed kāma-rāga samyojana,
2: The latent tendency to aversion *patigh …

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.

…one ubhato-bhāga-vimutta.

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

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

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

Avijjā: I gnorance, nescience, the blindness of not knowing, is synonymous with confusion moha (see mūla ), is the primary & deepest root of all evil and suffering in the world, veiling man’s …

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 …

Beautiful: sobhana.

Beauty: deliverance 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: vipallāsa.

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: visuddhi VI, 2.

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

Bhava: ‘becoming’, ‘process of existence’, consists of 3 planes: sense-existence kāma-bhava, fine-material existence rūpa-bhava, immaterial existence arūpa-bhava. Cf. loka.

The whole …

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

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 …

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 ‘purification by knowledge and vision of the path -progress’ se …

Bhāva: feminine and masculine ‘nature’, refers to the sexual characteristics of the body, and belongs to the group of materiality see:…

Bhāvanā-bala: see: patisankhāna-bala

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

…of tranquillity samatha-bhāvanā, i.e. concentration samādhi, and development of insight vipassanā - bhāvanā, i.e. understanding…

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

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 …

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

…brahma - vihāra - bhāvanā bhāvanā often met with in the Suttas,- is as follows: ’There, o Bhikkhus, the Bhikkhu with a mind full…

…inclinations A. IV, 31.

bhāva - cakka ‘wheel of existence’, or of life, is a name for ‘dependent origination’ see:…

Catu-vokāra-bhava: ‘four-group existence’, is the existence in the immaterial world arūpa - loka see: loka since only the four mental groups feeling, perception, mental constructions, co …

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 …

Eka-vokāra-bhava: one-group existence, is the existence of the unconscious beings asañña-satta as they 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.: samsāra. - Craving for e.: bhava-tanhā see …

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

…three stages are: thiti-bhāgiya-sīla etc. morality, etc. connected with a standstill; visesa - bhāgiya sīla etc.: morality, etc….

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

Indriya: ‘abilities’, is a name for 22, partly physical, partly mental, phenomena often treated in the Suttas as well as in the Abhidhamma. They are:

6 Bases āyatana:

1. eye: …

Itthindriya: ‘femininity’; see: bhāva

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 …

…- kammatthāna see. bhāvanā Often also the 4 immaterial spheres arūpāyatana are called absorptions of the immaterial sphere…

Jāti: ‘birth’, comprises the entire embryonic process beginning with conception and ending with parturition.

The birth of beings belonging to this or that order of beings, their being born, their …

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 …

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 3 to develop bhāvanā - padhāna 4 to maintain anurakkhana - padhāna i.e. 1 the effort to avoid disadvantageous akusala…

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 …

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

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 …

…of the fourth term patibhāna Bhikkhu ñānamoli proposes: perspicuity in expression and knowledge.

1. The analytical knowledge of…

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 …

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

…Cf eka-vokāra-bhava and catu - pañca - vokāra - bhāva further see: avacara - App.: vokāra.

…based on mental development bhāvanā - mayā - paññā D. 33.

‘Based on thinking’ is that knowledge which one has accquired through…

…see: iddhi - For morality combined with penetration nibbedha see: hāna-bhāgiya-sīla etc. - For penetration pariya of the…

Pleasantness: idea of: see: vipallāsa, subhanimitta.

…morality, etc., see: hānabhāgiya etc. - Purification by knowledge and vision of path -progress, see: visuddhi VI. - p.: of the…

Punabbhava: lit.: re-becoming; ‘renewed existence’, is a sutta term for ‘rebirth’, which, in later literature mostly is called patisandhi The attainment of Sainthood arahatta implying the end …

Purisindriya: ‘Virility’; see: bhāva khandha

…development meditation; bhāvanā - maya - p. See D. 33; It. 60; expl. in A. VIII, 36.

Commentaries have a list of ten dasa p which…

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 …

…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….

…Thiti-bhāgiya-samādhi, Thiti-bhāgiya-paññā:** ‘static morality, static concentration, static understanding’; see:…

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

Āsava: lit: fermentations, taints, corruptions, intoxicant biases. There is a list of four as in D. 16, Pts.M., Vibh.:
1: The mental fermentation of sense-desire kāmāsava, Ex: ’All is pleasan …

Āyūhana: K ammic accumulation, is a name used in the commentarial literature for the advantageous and disadvantageous intentional activities kamma or kammic-constructions sankhāra (see: *paticc …