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 * …

Adherent: upāsaka disciple.

…cāga and of peace upasama. See also D. 33 and Com.

dic2-abbrev.htm#Com.

2. ‘Determination’, resolution,…

Akuppa-dhamma: The unshakeable state; is that of one who has attained full mastery over the absorptions jhāna. In Pug. 4 it is said: What person is unshakable? If a person gains the meditative …

…of no-self anattānupassanā leads to the emptiness liberation suññatā-vimokkha see. vimokkha. Herein the ability of…

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

…of impermanence aniccānupassanā is the first of the 18 chief kinds of insight, 2: Contemplation of arising and vanishing…

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

Animittānupassanā: see: vipassanā

…parikamma, access upacāra, adaptation anuloma and change-of-lineage gotrabhū moments. For further details see: javana…

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 perception’ see: nirodha-samāpatti, as it is said in …

Anupādisesa-nibbāna: see Nibbāna & upādi

…- sati,
9: Awareness of breathing ānāpāna-sati,
10: Recollection of Peace upasamānussati.

The first six recollections…

…half the life-time upahacca - parinibbāyī.

3: Or, with effort he attains the Noble path for the overcoming of the…

…D esireless mental release see: *vimokkha

_ Appanihitānupassanā: Contemplation of desirelessness see: _vipassanā*

…existing during absorption jhāna, whilst the neighbourhood or access-concentration upacāra samādhi only approaches the 1st absorption…

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 …

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

Arūpa-jjhāna: Formless mental absorption see: jhāna

Arūpa-khandha: The four formless immaterial groups of sentient existence are: feeling, perception, mental constructions, and consciousn …

Arūpāvacara: Formless spheres see: avacara

Atta-vādupādāna: Attachment to the belief or view in a constant ego, self or soul, is one of the 4 kinds of clinging upādāna.

Avacara: S phere, realm, level or dimension. The 3 levels of existence are: the sense-level kāmāvacara, the fine-material level rūpāvacara, the formless level arūpāvacara. Which things are …

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

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 …

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

…and peace upasamānussati,. Among these, the recollection or awareness or mindfulness of in-and-out breathing may produce all…

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

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

Brahma-kāyika-deva: The ‘divine beings of the Brahma-world’ inhabit the first 3 heavens of the fine-material world, rūpaloka corresponding to the 1st absorption jhāna. The highest ruler of …

Brahma-loka: ‘Brahma-world’, in the widest sense, is a name for the fine-material rūpa - loka and immaterial world arūpa - loka; in a narrower sense, however, only for the first three …

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 …

Cetasika: ‘mental things, mental properties’, are those mental properties which are bound up with the simultaneously arising consciousness citta = viññāna and conditioned by its presence. Wh …

[[citta-ja (citta-samutthāna)-rūpa]]Citta-ja citta-samutthāna-rūpa: ‘mind-produced materiality’; see: samutthāna

Citta: ‘mind’, ‘consciousness’, ‘state of consciousness’, is a synonym of mano and viññāna see: khandha and Tab. 1. Dhs divides all phenomena into consciousness citta mental properties *ce …

Citta-samutthāna-rūpa: ‘mind-produced materiality’; see: samutthāna.

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

Clinging: the 4 kinds of: upādāna

…Contemplation of °: cittānupassanā: satipatthāna - Materiality produced by °: citta - ja - rūpa see: samutthāna - Abodes or…

Contemplation: see: anupassanā.

Corruptions: see: upakkilesa

[[counteractive karma]]Counteractive kamma: upapīlaka-kamma see: kamma.

Cutūpapāta-ñāna: the ‘knowledge of the vanishing and reappearing’ of beings is identical with the divine eye; see: abhiññā.

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

…The 4 substrata of e.: upadhi - Courses of e.: gati - Wheel of e.: samsāra. - Craving for e.: bhava-tanhā see:…

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

[[fine-material sphere]]Fine-material sphere: or [[fine-material sphere]]Fine-material world: see: avacara loka Absorptions of the: rūpa-jjhāna see: jhāna

Grasping: cf. parāmāsa, upādāna.

Groups: of existence, see: khandha material groups, see: rūpa-kalāpa materiality-group, see: rūpa-kāya mind-group, see: nāma-kāya

Growth: bodily: rūpassa upacaya see: khandha I.

Hadaya-vatthu: ‘heart as physical base’ of mental life. The heart, according to the commentaries as well as to the general Buddhist tradition, forms the physical base vatthu of consciousness In …

[[immaterial sphere]]Immaterial sphere: arūpāvacara cf. avacara jhāna 5-8; Tab. I.

[[immaterial world]]Immaterial world: arūpa - loka see: loka.

Imperfections: see: upakkilesa.

Impurities: see: upakkilesa

Inducement: an alternative rendering for decisive-support condition, upanissaya is one of the 24 conditions paccaya.

…parikamma approach upacāra adaptation anuloma and change-of-lineage-moment gotrabhū In connection with entering the…

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 …

Jīvita-navaka-kalāpa: ninefold vital group; see: rūpa-kalāpa.

Jīvita: and Jīvitindriya: ‘Life, vitality’, may be either physical rūpa - jīvitindriya or mental nāma - jīvitindriya The latter is one of the mental properties inseparably associated …

[[materiality and mind]]Materiality and mind: see: dic3_n.htm#nāma-rūpa nāma-rūpa

Materiality-group: rūpa- khandha see: khandha

Materiality: produced through consciousness, kamma, etc.; see: samutthāna - Sensitive c.: pasāda-rūpa

Materiality-perceptions: rūpa - saññā see: jhāna

…or inducement condition upanissaya-paccaya is threefold, namely a by way of object ārammanūpanissaya - paccaya b by way of proximity…

Pacceka-buddha: an ‘Solitarily Enlightened One’; or Separately or Individually = pacceka Enlightened One renderings by ‘Silent’ or ‘Private Buddha’ are not very apt. This is a term for an Araha …

Pakati-upanissaya: ‘direct inducement’; see: paccaya

…- nirodho papañca - vupasamo. The opposite term nippapañca is a name for Nibbāna S. LIII, in the sense of ’freedom from samsaric…

Pasāda-rūpa: ‘sensitive materiality’, is a name for the 5 physical sense-organs responding to sense-stimuli. Cf. āyatana

…‘rebirth-process’ upapatti-bhava The kamma-making kammabhava comprises the 5 kammical causes: ignorance, kammic-constructions,…

Patigha: - 1. In an ethical sense, it means: ‘repugnance’, grudge, resentment, anger, and is a synonym of vyāpāda, ill-will’ see: nīvarana and dosa ‘hate’ see: mūla It is one of the late …

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

Patisankhānupassanā-ñāna: ’knowledge consisting in reflective contemplation

is one of the 9 knowledges constituting the ’purification by…

Pañca-vokāra-bhava: ‘five-group existence’, is a name for existence in the sense-sphere kāmāvacara or in the fine-material sphere rūpāvacara avacara since all the 5 groups of existence …

Phassa: fr. phusati to touch: ‘sense-contact’, contact. The term samphassa is used in compounds, e.g. in the following: ‘;T’here are 6 classes of sense-contact: visual contact cakkhu - *s …

[[produced materiality]]Produced materiality: nipphanna-rūpa

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 …

Ti-lakkhana: the ‘3 charactcristies of existence’, or signata, are impermanency anicca, suffcring or misery dukkha see: sacca, dukkhatā no-self anattā.

Whether Perfect Ones appear in th …

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

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

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

Āhāra: ‘nutriment’, ‘food’, is used in the concrete sense as material food and as such it belongs to derived materiality see: khandha Summary I. In the figurative sense, as ‘foundation’ or susta …

Āhāra-samutthāna-rūpa: ‘Food-produced materiality’; see: samutthāna

Āneñja: Static imperturbability, denotes the mental state of being(s) in the formless sphere arūpāvacara avacara, see: sankhāra cf. M. 106.

Ārammana: Object. There are six: visible object, sound, odour, taste, body-contact, mental-object. The mental-object dhammārammana may be physical or mental, past, present or future, real or …

Ārammanupanissaya: Decisive Support Conditional Relation. see: paccaya

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 …

*Āyatana:
* 1: Spheres, is a name for the four formless absorptions; see: jhāna 5-8.
2: The 12 sources or bases on which depend the mental processes, consist of five physical sense-organs an …