BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - N -
'knowledge, comprehension, intelligence,
insight', is a synonym for paññā; see also
vipassanā.
ñānadassana-visuddhi
nānatta-saññā: The 'variety (or multiformity) -
perceptions are explained under jhāna.
ñāna-vipphārā iddhi: the 'power of penetrating
knowledge', is one of the magical powers (iddhi).
ñāta-pariññā: 'full understanding (or comprehension)
of the known', is one of the 3 kinds of full understanding (pariññā).
natthika-ditthi: 'nihilistic view' (a doctrine that all
values are baseless, that nothing is knowable or can be communicated, and that
life itself is meaningless), s. ditthi.
natthi-paccaya: 'absence-condition', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
natural morality: pakati-sīla.
navanga-buddha (or satthu)- sāsana: s.
sāsana.
nava-sattāvāsa: s. sattāvāsa.
naya-vipassanā: s. kalāpa (2).
ñāya: 'right method', is often used as a name for the
Noble Eightfold Path (s. magga), e.g. in the Satipatthāna Sutta (M. 10,
D. 22).
neighbourhood-concentration: upacāra-samādhi.
nekkhamma
nesajjikanga: one of the 13 dhutanga.
neutral, karmically: avyākata (q.v.); n.
feelings, s. vedanā.
n'eva-saññā-n'āsaññāyatana: The 'sphere of
neither-perception-nor-non-perception', is the name for the fourth absorption of
the immaterial sphere (arūpāvacara), a semi-conscious state, which is
surpassed only by the state of complete suspense of consciousness, called
'attainment of extinction' (nirodha-samāpatti). See
jhāna
(8).
n'eva-sekha-n'āsekha: 'neither in training nor beyond
training', i.e. neither learner nor master. Thus is called the worldling (puthujjana), for he is neither pursuing the 3-fold training (sikkhā)
in morality, mental culture and wisdom, on the level of the first 3 paths of
sanctity, nor has he completed his training as an Arahat. See
sekha. -
(App.).
neyya
neyyattha-dhamma
Nibbāna
nibbatti: 'arising', 'rebirth', is a synonym for
patisandhi.
nibbedha-bhāgiya-sīla (-samādhi, -paññā): 'morality
(concentration, wisdom) connected with penetration'; s.
hāna-bhāgiya-sīla.
nibbidānupassanā-ñāna: 'contemplation of aversion',
is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight; s. vipassanā (4), samatha-vipassanā
(2), visuddhi (VI, 5).
nicca-saññā (-citta,-ditthi): perception (or
consciousness, or view) of permanency, is one of the 4 perversions (vipallāsa).
nihilistic view: natthika-ditthi; s.
ditthi.
nīla-kasina: 'blue-kasina exercise' s. kasina.
nimitta
nimmāna-rati: the name of a class of heavenly beings of
the sensuous sphere; s. deva.
nine abodes of beings: s. sattāvāsa.
ninefold dispensation: s: sāsana.
nippapañca: s. papañca.
nipphanna-rūpa
niraya
nirodha: 'extinction'; s. nirodha-samāpatti,
anupubba-nirodha.
nirodhānupassanā: 'contemplation of extinction', is one
of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā). See
ānāpānasati
(15).
nirodha-samāpatti
nirutti-patisambhidā: the 'analytical knowledge of
language', is one of the 4 patisambhidā.
nirvana: (Sanskrit= ) Nibbāna.
nissarana-pahāna: 'overcoming by escape', is one of the
5 kinds of overcoming (pahāna).
nissaya
nissaya-paccaya: 'support', base, foundation, is one of
the 24 conditions (s. paccaya, 8).
nītattha-dhamma: A 'doctrine with evident meaning',
contrasted with a 'doctrine with a meaning to be inferred' (neyyattha-dhamma). See also
paramattha.
nīvarana
niyāma
niyata-micchāditthi
niyata-puggala
noble abodes: s. vihāra.
noble family, Passing from n.f. to n.f.: kolankola;
s. Sotāpanna.
noble persons: ariya-puggala.
noble power: ariya iddhi; s. iddhi.
noble truths, the 4: ariya-sacca; s.
sacca.
- The 2-fold knowledge of the n.t.; s. sacca-ñāna.
noble usages, the 4: ariya-vamsa.
non-disappearance: avigata-paccaya, is one of the
24 conditions (paccaya).
non-violence: s. avihimsā.
not-self: s. anattā.
no-upādā-rūpa: 'underived corporeality', designates
the 4 primary elements (mahābhūta or dhātu), as distinguished
from the 'derived corporeality' (upādā-rūpa), such as the sensitive
organs, etc. Cf. khandha, I.
nutriment: s. ojā, āhāra. - āhāra is
one of the 24 conditions (paccaya) - n.- produced
corporeality; s. samutthāna.
