BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -Ab-An

• abandonment, contemplation of: patinissaggānupassanā, is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight; s. vipassanā, further ānāpānasati (16).
• abbhokāsik'anga: 'living in the open air', is one of the ascetic means to purification (dhutanga).
• aberration (in morality and understanding): s. vipatti.
• abhabbāgamana, 'incapable of progressing'...
• ābhassara: The 'Radiant Ones', are a class of heavenly beings of the fine-material world (rūpa-loka); cf. deva.
• abhibhāyatana the 8 'stages of mastery', ...
• abhijjhā: 'covetousness' is a synonym of lobha (s. mūla) and tanhā and is the 8th link of the unwholesome courses of action (s. kamma-patha, I).
• abhinibbatti, a Sutta term for rebirth; s. punabbhava.
• abhiññā: The 6 'higher powers', or supernormal knowledge's, ...
• abhisamācārika-sīla: 'morality consisting in good behaviour', ...
• abhisamaya: 'truth-realization', ...
• abhisankhāra: identical with the 2nd link of the paticca-samuppāda, sankhāra (under I, 1) or karma-formations.
• ability to acquire insight: cf. ugghatitaññū, vipacitaññū neyya.
• abodes: vihāra. The 4 Divine a.: brahma-vihāra. The 9 a. of beings: sattāvāsa.
• absence: natthi-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• absorption: s. jhāna.
• abstentions, the 3: virati.
• access, Moment of: s. javana.
• access-concentration: s. samādhi.
• accumulation (of Karma): āyūhana.
• ācinnaka-kamma: habitual karma; s. karma.
• acinteyya: lit. 'That which cannot or should not be thought, the unthinkable, ...
• acquired image (during concentration): s. nimitta, samādhi, kasina.
• action: karma (q.v.) - Right bodily a.: sammā-kammanta; s. sacca (IV.4)
• adaptability (of body, mental factors and consciousness): kammaññatā; cf. khandha (corporeality) and Tab. II.
• adaptation-knowledge: anuloma-ñāna.
• adherence: parāmāsa.
• adherent: upāsaka.
• adhicitta-sikkhā 'training in higher mentality'; s. sikkhā.
• adhimokkha: 'determination', decision, resolve ...
• adhipaññā-dhamma-vipassanā: 'insight into things based on higher wisdom', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (s. vipassanā).
• adhipati-paccaya: 'predominance-condition' is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya); if developed, it is considered as the fourfold road to power (iddhi-pāda).
• adhisīla-sikkhā: 'training in higher morality': s. sikkhā.
• adhitthāna, Determination ...
• ādibrahmacariyaka-sīla: 'morality of genuine pure conduct', ...
• ādīnavānupassanā-ñāna: 'knowledge consisting in contemplation of misery', ...
• adosa: 'hatelessness, is one of the 3 wholesome roots (mūla).
• adukkha-m-asukhā vedanā: 'feeling which is neither painful nor joyful', i.e. indifferent feeling; s. khandha, vedanā.
• advertence (of mind to the object): āvajjana, is one of the functions of consciousness (viññāna-kicca). Cf. manasikāra.
• aeon: kappa.
• agati: the 4 'wrong paths' ...
• age, Old: jarā.
• aggregates: khandha.
• agility: lahutā.
• āhāra: 'nutriment', 'food', ...
• āhāra-ja (or-samutthāna) - rūpa: 'Food-produced corporeality'; s. samutthāna.
• āhāre-patikkūla-saññā: 'reflection on the loathsomeness of food', fully described in Vis.M. XI, l.
• ahetuka-citta: s. hetu.
• ahetuka-ditthi: 'view of uncausedness' (of existence); s. ditthi.
• ahetu-patisandhika: s. patisandhi.
• ahimsā: s. avihimsā.
• ahirika-anottappa: 'lack of moral shame and dread', ...
• ahosi-kamma: 'ineffective karma'; s. karma.
• ājīva: 'livelihood'. About right and wrong livelihood., s. sacca (IV. 5) and micchā-magga (5).
• ājīva-pārisuddhi-sīla: 'morality consisting in purification of livelihood', is one of the 4 kinds of perfect morality; s. sīla.
• akanittha: the 'Great Ones', i.e. 'Highest Gods', are the inhabitants of the 5th and highest heaven of the Pure Abodes (suddhāvāsa); cf. avacara, deva (II), Anāgāmī.
• ākāsa: 'space', ...
• ākāsa dhātu: 'space element'; see above and dhātu.
• ākāsa-kasina 'space-kasina exercise'; s. kasina.
• ākāsānañcāyatana: 'sphere of boundless space', is identical with the 1st absorption in the immaterial sphere; s. jhāna (6).
• ākiñcañña-ceto-vimutti: s. ceto-vimutti.
• ākiñcaññāyatana: s. jhāna (7).
• akiriya-ditthi: view of the inefficacy of action'; s. ditthi.
• akuppā-ceto-vimutti: cf. ceto-vimutti.
• akuppa-dhamma: 'unshakable', ...
• akusala: 'unwholesome', ...
• akusala-sādhārana-cetasika: 'general unwholesome mental factors ...
• akusala-vitakka: 'unwholesome thoughts' ...
• alcohol prohibition: s. surāmeraya-majja-ppamādatthānā etc.
• alms, vow of going for; or to do so without omitting any house: s. dhutanga, 3, 4.
• alms-bowl eater, the practice of the: s. dhutanga.
• alms-giving: dāna.
• alms-goer, the practice of the; s. dhutanga.
• alobha: 'greedlessness', is one of the 3 karmically wholesome roots (mūla).
• āloka-kasina: 'light-kasina-exercise'; s. kasina.
• āloka-saññā: 'perception of light'. ...
• altruistic joy: muditā, is one of the 4 sublime abodes (brahmavihāra).
• amata 'Deathlessness' ...
• amoha: 'non-delusion', wisdom, is one of the 3 karmically wholesome roots (mūla).
• anabhijjhā: 'freedom from covetousness', unselfishness; s. kammapatha (II. 8).
• anabhirati-saññā: s. sabba-loke anabhirati-s.
• Anāgāmī: the 'Non-Returner', ...
• analysis of the 4 elements: dhātu-vavatthāna.
• analytical doctrine: vibhajja-vāda.
• analytical knowledge, the 4 kinds of: patisambhidā.
• anaññātañ-ñassāmīt'indriya: is one of the 3 supermundane senses or faculties; s. indriya (20).
• anantara-paccaya: 'proximity', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• ānantarika-kamma: the 5 heinous 'actions with immediate destiny' ...
• ānantariya: the 'Immediacy', ...
• ānāpāna-sati: 'mindfulness on in-and-out-breathing', i...
• anattā: 'not-self', non-ego, egolessness, impersonality, ...
• anattānupassanā: 'contemplation of not-self' is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (s. vipassanā). See also above.
• anattā-saññā: 'perception of not-self'; see A.VI.104; A.VII.48; A.X.60; Ud.IV.1.
• anattā-vāda: the 'doctrine of impersonality'; s. anattā.
• āneñja: 'imperturbability', denotes the immaterial sphere (arūpāvacara; s. avacara); s. sankhāra. cf. M.106.
• anger: s. mūla.
• anicca: 'impermanent' (or, as abstract noun, aniccatā, 'impermanence') ...
• aniccānupassanā: 'contemplation of impermanence', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (s. vipassanā).
• anicca-saññā: 'perception of impermanence', ...