 BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - K -
 BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - K -
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kabalinkārāhāra: lit. 'food formed into balls', i.e. food 
formed into mouthfuls for eating (according to Indian custom); it denotes 
'material food' and belongs, together with the three mental nutriments, to the 
group of four nutriments (s. āhāra).
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kalāpa
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kalpa: (Skr) =
kappa).
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kalyāna-mitta
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kāma
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kāma-bhava: 'sensuous existence'; s. bhava.
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kāma-cchanda: 'sensuous desire', s. 
nīvarana, chanda.
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kāma-guna: s. kāma.
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kāma-loka: 'sensuous world', s. loka.
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kāma-rāga: 'sensuous lust', is one of the 10 fetters (samyojana).
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kāmāsava: s: āsava.
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kāma-sukh'allikānuyoga: 'being addicted to sensual 
pleasures', is one of the 2 extremes to be avoided by the monk; s. 
majjhima-patipadā.
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kāma-tanhā: 'sensuous craving'; s. tanhā.
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kāmāvacara: 'sensuous sphere'; s. avacara.
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kāmesu-micchācāra
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kamma: (wholesome or unwholesome) action; s.
karma.
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kamma-bhava: s. bhava, 
paticcasamuppāda.
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kammaja-rūpa: 'karma-produced corporeality'; s. 
samutthāna.
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kammaññatā
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kammanta, sammā-: 'right action'; s. magga.
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kamma-paccaya: 'karma as condition'; s.  paccaya 
(13).
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kamma-patha
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kamma-samutthāna-rūpa: 'corporeality produced through 
karma'; s. samutthāna.
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kammatthāna: lit. 'working-ground' (i.e. for meditation), 
is the term in the Com. for 'subjects of meditation'; s. 
bhāvanā.
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kamma-vatta: 'karma-round'; s. vatta.
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kammāyūhana: s. āyūhana.
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kāmupādāna: 'sensuous clinging', is one of the 4 kinds of 
clinging (upādāna).
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kankhā
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kankhā-vitarana-visuddhi: 'purification by overcoming 
doubt', is the 4th of the 7 stages of purification (visuddhi).
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kappa
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karma (Sanskrit), Pāli: kamma
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karma-accumulation:  āyūhana.
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karma-formations
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karma-process: s. bhava, 
paticcasamuppāda.
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karma-produced corporeality: s. samutthāna.
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karma-result: vipāka.
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karma-round: kamma vatta (s. vatta).
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karmically acquired corporeality: upādinnarūpa.
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karmically wholesome, unwholesome, neutral: kusala,
 akusala, avyākata; cf. 
Tab.I.
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karunā: 'compassion', is one of the 4 sublime abodes (brahma-vihāra).
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kasina
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katattā-kamma: 'stored-up karma'; s. karma.
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kāya
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kāya-gatā-sati
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kāya-kamma: 'bodily action'; s. karma, 
kammapatha.
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kāya-kammaññatā, k.-lahutā, k.-mudutā,
k.-pāguññatā, k.-passaddhi, k.-ujukatā; 
s. Tab.II. For passaddhi, s. further 
bojjhanga.
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kāya-lahutā: agility or lightness of mental factors (s. 
lahutā).
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kāyānupassanā: 'contemplation of the body', is one of the 4 
foundations of mindfulness; s. satipatthāna.
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kāya-passaddhi: tranquillity of mental factors, s. 
bojjhanga.
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kāya-sakkhi
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kāya-viññatti: s. viññatti.
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khalu-pacchā-bhattik'anga: s. dhutanga.
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khana: 'moment'; s. citta-kkhana.
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khandha
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khandha-parinibbāna: s. nibbāna.
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khandha-santāna: s. santāna.
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khanti: 'patience', forbearance', is one of the 10 
perfections (pāramī).
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khayānupassanā: 'contemplation of dissolution', is one of 
the 18 chief kinds of insight (s. vipassanā).
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khidda-padosikā devā
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khīnāsava: 'the one in whom all cankers are destroyed' is a 
name for the Arahat, or Holy One; s. āsava.
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kicca 'function'. Regarding the 14 functions of 
consciousness, s. viññāna-kicca.
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kilesa
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kilesa-kāma: 'sensuality considered as defilement' (s. 
kilesa) might well be called 'subjective sensuality', in contradistinction 
to 'objective sensuality' (vatthu-kāma), i.e. the sensuous objects (kāma-guna).
Cf. kāma.
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kilesa-parinibbāna: s. nibbāna (1).
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killing: s. karma, 
kammapatha, sikkhāpada.
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kiñcana
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kiriya (or kriya)-citta
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knowledge: cf. paññā, ñāna, 
vijjā, vipassanā, 
abhiññā.
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kolankola: 'passing from one noble family to another', is 
the name for one of the 3 kinds of Sotāpanna.
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kriya-citta = kiriya.
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kukkucca
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kuppa-dhamma
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kusala
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kusala-kammapatha: 'wholesome course of action'; s. 
kammapatha.
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kusala-mūla
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kusala-vipāka: the (mental) 'karma-result of wholesome 
karma' (s. karma).
  
  
  
 
 
 