BUDDHIST DICTIONARY

Buddhist Dictionary Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines by NYANATILOKA MAHATHERA Fourth Revised Edition, edited by Nyanaponika Mahathera Buddhist Publication

ABBREVIATIONS A.   Aṅguttara Nikāya (figures refer to number of book (nipāta) and Sutta) Abh.    Abhidhamma Piṭaka (Canon) Abh. S.    Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha Abh. St.    Abhidhamma

-A- abandonment, contemplation of; paṭinissaggānupassanā, is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight; s. vipassanā, further ānāpānasati  (16). abbhokāsikaṅga: ‘living in the open air’, is

-B- bahula-kamma: ‘habitual kamma’: s. kamma. bala: ‘powers’. Among various groups of powers the following five are most frequently met with in

-C- cāga: ‘liberality’, is one of the ‘blessings’ (s. sampadā), ‘foundations’ (s. adhiṭṭhāna), ‘recollections’ (s. anussati), ‘treasures’ (s. dhana ). cakka: ‘wheel’, is one of the seven ‘precious possessions’ (ratana) of a

-D- dāna: ‘almsgiving’, liberality, offering. “He who gives alms, bestows a fourfold blessing: he helps to long life, good appearance, happiness

-E- earnestness: appamāda (q.v.). earth-element: s. dhātu (I). eating, knowing the measure in bhojane mattaññutā (q.v.). effort, the 4 right e.: samma-ppadhāna; s. padhāna. Right e. s. sacca (IV 6), magga (6) . – 5 elements of e.: padhāniyaṅga (q.v.). ego-entity: attā(q.v.). ego-belief: s. diṭṭhi, sakkāya-diṭṭhi, vipallāsa. ego-idea,

-F- factors, mental: s. cetasika. – F. of absorption, s. jhāna – F. of enlightenment, s. bojjhaṅga. faculties: indriya (q.v.); see also paccaya 16. fading away: s. virāga. faith: saddhā (q.v.). faith-devotee and faith-liberated one: s. ariyapuggala (B). faithful-natured: saddhā-carita; s. carita. fatalism: s. diṭṭhi. favour, 4 ways of

-G- gantha: ‘ties’. “There are 4 ties: the bodily tie (kāyagantha) of covetousness (abhijjhā), of ill-will (byāpāda), of clinging to rule and ritual (sīlabbata-parāmāsa), of dogmatical fanaticism (idaṃsaccābhinivesa)” (D. 33). –

-H- habitual kamma: bahula-kamma: s. kamma. hadaya-vatthu: ‘heart as physical base’ of mental life. The heart, according to the commentaries as well as to

-I- iddhi: ‘power’, ‘magical power’. The magical powers constitute one of the 6 kinds of higher spiritual powers (abhiññā, q.v.). One distinguishes many

-J- janaka-kamma: ‘regenerative kamma’; s. kamma. jarā: ‘old age, decay’, is one of the 3 divine messengers (s. deva-dūta, q.v.). For its conditioning by