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 …

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

Abhinibbatti: a Sutta term for rebirth; see: punabbhava

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 …

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 …

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

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

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

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

…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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

…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…

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….

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

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 …