BUDDHIST DICTIONARY

Appendix Attempt at a chronological fixing of terms not found, or not found in this form or meaning, in the

-Y- yakkha: in popular belief, a kind of ghost, goblin. or ogre. Yāma-deva: are a kind of heavenly beings of the sensuous

-V- vācā: ‘speech’. On right sp., s. magga (3), sacca (IV.3). – Low talk, s. tiracchāna-kathā. vacī-kamma: ‘verbal action’; s. kamma, kamma-kathā. vacī-saṅkhāra: ‘verbal kamma-formation’, or ‘verbal function’. (1)

-U- ubhato-bhāga-vimutta: the ‘both-ways-liberated one’, is the name of one class of noble disciples (ariya-puggala, q.v.). He is liberated in 2 ways, namely,

-T- tadaṅga-pahāna: ‘ovcrcoming by the opposite’, is one of the 5 kinds of overcoming (pahāna, q.v.). tadārammaṇa-citta: ‘registering consciousness’ (s. Tab. I, 40-49, 56),

-S- sabba-loke anabhirati-saññā: ‘contemplation on disinterestedness regarding the whole world’, described in A. X., 60 in the following words: “If, Ānanda, the

-R- radiant gods: ābhassara; cf. deva. rāga: ‘lust’, ‘greed’, is a synonym of lobha (s. mūla), taṇhā (q.v.) and abhijjhā (s. kammapatha). For kāma-, rūpa-, arūpa-rāga, s. saṃyojana. rāga-carita: the ‘greedy-natured’; s. carita. rapture: pīti (q.v.); further s. bojjhaṅga. reaction, sense-: s. paṭigha. ready-wit: s. paṭisambhidā. reality: s. paramattha. – Vision

-Q- questions and answers: pañhā-byākaraṇa (q.v.).

-P- pabbajjā: lit. ‘the going forth’, or more fully stated, ‘the going forth from home to the homeless life’ of a

-O- obduracies, the 5 mental: ceto-khila (q.v.). obhāsa: ‘effulgence of light’, aura, appearing at times during deep insight (vipassanā), may become a ‘defilement of insight’ (vipassanūpakkilesa); cf. visuddhi, V.

-N- nāma: (lit. ‘name’): ‘mind’, mentality. This term is generally used as a collective name for the 4 mental groups (arūpino khandha), viz. feeling (vedanā), perception (saññā), mental

-M- macchariya: ‘stinginess’, avarice. “There are 5 kinds of stinginess, o monks; regarding the dwelling place, regarding families, regarding gain, regarding

-L- lahutā: ‘lightness’, or ‘agility’, may be of 3 kinds: of corporeality (rūpassa lahutā; s. khandha, I ), of mental factors (kāya-lahutā), and of consciousness (citta-lahutā). Cf. Tab. II. lakkhaṇa: ‘characteristics’.

-K- kabalinkārāhāra: lit. ‘food formed into balls’, i.e. food formed into mouthfuls for eating (according to Indian custom); it denotes ‘material