BUDDHIST DICTIONARY
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'habitual karma': s. karma.
bala
balance of mental faculties: indriya samatta.
bases: The 12 of the perceptual process: āyatana.
beautiful: sobhana.
beauty, deliverance through the perception of: cf.
vimokkha (II. 3) To hold for beautiful or pure (subha) what is
impure (asubha), is one of the 4 perversions (s.
vipallāsa).
behaviour, morality consisting in good:
abhisamācārikasīla.
being, living: satta; further s.
puggala. - Belief in eternal personality: bhava-ditthi (s.
ditthi), sassata-ditthi.
beings, The 9 worlds of: sattāvāsa.
belief, blind: s. indriya-samatta.
bhangānupassanā-ñāna: 'knowledge consisting in
contemplation of dissolution' (of all forms of existence), is one kind of
insight: s. visuddhi (VI, 2).
bhava
bhāva
bhava-ditthi: 'belief in being' (eternal personality); s.
sassataditthi, ditthi.
bhāvanā
bhāvanā-bala: s. patisankhāna-bala.
bhāvanā-maya-paññā: wisdom based on mental
development'; s. paññā
bhavanga-citta: see bhavanga-sota
bhavanga-santāna: 'continuity of subconsciousness'; s.
santāna
bhavanga-sota
and bhavanga-citta
bhava-tanhā: 'craving for (eternal) existence'; s.
tanhā.
bhavāsava: 'canker of existence'; s. āsava.
bhayatupatthāna-ñāna
bhikkhu
bhojane mattaññutā
biases: s. āsava.
birth process: upapatti-bhava: s. bhava.
Further s. patisandhi,
jāti.
bodhi
bodhipakkhiya-dhammā
Bodhisatta
bodily action (wholesome or unwholesome); s. karma,
karma formations - Right b.a. = sammā-kammanta; s.
magga.
bodily postures, the 4: iriyā-patha.
body: kāya. Contemplation on the b.
is one of the 4 satipatthāna.
body-witness: kāya-sakkhi.
bojjhanga
bondages, mental: cetaso vinibandha.
bonds, the 4: yoga.
both-ways liberated, s. ubhato-bhāga-vimutta,
ariyapuggala B. 4.
boundless consciousness (and b. space), Sphere
of: s. jhāna 5, 6.
brahma-cariya
brahma-kāyika-deva
brahma-loka
brahma-vihāra
breathing, mindfulness of in-and-out-breathing
ānāpānasati.
Buddha: s. sammā-sambodhi.
buddhānussati: 'recollection of the Enlightened One';
s. anussati.
Buddha-sāsana: s. sāsana.
