 BUDDHIST DICTIONARY  - P -
 BUDDHIST DICTIONARY  - P -
'purity of reflection', is a name
for wise consideration in using the 4 requisites allowed to the monk, i.e.
robes, food, dwelling, and medicine; s. sīla (4).
  paccaya
  paccaya-sannissita-sīla: 'morality consisting in the
wise use of the monk's requisites'; s. sīla (4).
  pacceka-bodhi: 'independent enlightenment'; s. the foll.
and bodhi.
  pacceka-buddha
  pacchājāta-paccaya: 'post-nascence-condition', is one
of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  pādaka-jjhāna
  pada-parama
  padhāna
  padhāniyanga
  pāguññatā: 'proficiency', namely, of mental
concomitants (kāya-pāguññatā), and of consciousness (citta-pāguññatā),
are 2 mental phenomena associated with all wholesome consciousness. Cf. 
  Tab. II.
  pahāna
  pahāna-pariññā; s. pariññā.
  pain, feeling of: s. vedanā.
  pakati-sīla: 'natural or genuine morality', is distinct
from those outward rules of conduct laid down for either laymen or monks. Those
later are the so-called 'prescribed morality' (paññāttisīla). Cf. 
  sīla.
  pakati-upanissaya: 'direct inducement'; s. 
  paccaya.
  palibodha
  pamsukūlik'anga: the 'vow to wear only robes made from
picked-up rags', is one of the ascetic rules of purification; s. 
  dhutanga.
  pānātipātā veramanī: 'abstaining from the killing of
living beings', is the first of the 5 moral rules binding upon all Buddhists; s.
sikkhāpada.
  pañcadvārāvajjana: 'advertence to the 5-sense-doors';
s. viññāna-kicca.
  pañca-sīla: s.
sikkhāpada.
  pañca-vokāra-bhava
  pañhā-byākarana: 'answering questions'. "There
are, o monks, 4 ways of answering questions: there are questions requiring a
direct answer; questions requiring an explanation; questions to be answered by
counter-questions; questions to be rejected (as wrongly put)." See D.33;
A.III.68; A.IV.42.
  paññā
  paññatti-sīla: 'prescribed morality', is a name for
the disciplinary rules of the monk or layman prescribed by the Buddha, as
distinguished from natural or genuine morality (pakati-sīla; s. 
  sīla).
  paññā-vimutti
  papañca
  parāmāsa
  paramattha
  paramī, pāramitā
  paranimmita-vasavatti-deva: 'heavenly beings with power
over the productions of others', constitute a class of heavenly beings in the
sensuous sphere (kāma-loka). Māra is said to be their ruler. Cf.
  loka, 
  deva I.
  parassa ceto-pariya-ñāna: 'penetration of the mind of
others', is one of the higher powers (abhiññā).
  paricchinnākāsa-kasina: 'limited-space kasina' = space
kasina; s. kasina. (App.).
  parihāna-dhamma
  parikamma: 'preparatory-moment': s. javana.
  parikamma-nimitta: 'preparatory image'; s. 
  nimitta,
kasina.
  parikamma-samādhi: 'preparatory concentration', is the
initial and still undeveloped concentration of mind; s. 
  samādhi.
  parinibbānapariññā
  pārisuddhi-padhāniyanga
  pārisuddhi-sīla
  parittābha and paritta-subha are 2 classes of
heavenly beings of the fine-material sphere; s. 
  deva (II).
  pariyatti
  pasāda-rūpa: 'sensitive corporeality', is a name for
the 5 physical sense-organs responding to sense-stimuli. Cf. 
  āyatana.
  passaddhi-sambojjhanga: 'tranquillity, as factor of
enlightenment', consists in tranquillity of mental factors (kāya-passaddhi)
and tranquillity of consciousness (citta-passaddhi). Cf. 
  bojjhanga;
further Tab. II.
  patched-up robes, the practice of wearing: is one of the
ascetic rules of purification (dhutanga).
  path and not-path, the knowledge and vision
regarding: s. visuddhi (V).
  pathavī-dhātu: 'earth-element'. or 'solid element'. It
is cognizable through the sensations of pressure, touch, cold, heat. pain, etc.
- About the 4 elements. s. dhātu, 
  khandha (I. A.).
  pathavī-kasina: 'earth-kasina' (s. kasina).
  path-condition: magga-paccaya, is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
  path-knowledge, the 4 kinds of: s. visuddhi (VII).
  path-result (fruition): phala.
  patibhāga-nimitta: s. nimitta, 
  kasina, samādhi.
  patibhāna-patisambhidā: the 'analytical knowledge of
ready wit': s. patisambhidā.
  paticcasamuppāda
  patience, or forbearance (khanti): one of the 10
perfections (pāramī).
  patigha
  pātihāriya
  patikkūla-saññā: s. kāyagatā-sati.
  pātimokkha
  pātimokkha-samvara-sīla: 'morality consisting in
restraint with regard to the Disciplinary Code' (Pātimokkha, s. prec.).
For details, s. sīla.
  patinissaggānupassanā: 'contemplation on abandonment',
is one of the 18 kinds of insight (vipassanā). Further cf. the 16th
exercise of anapana-sati.
  patipadā
  patipadā-ñānadassana-visuddhi: 'purification by
knowledge and vision of the path-progress' forms the 6th stage of purification (visuddhi).
  patipannaka: 'path-attainer', is he who had reached one
of the 4 super mundane paths of holiness (s. ariya-puggala). - (App.)
  patipatti: practice, or 'pursuance' of the teaching, as
distinguished from the mere theoretical knowledge of its wording (pariyatti).
  patipassaddhi-pahāna: 'overcoming (of defilements) by
tranquillization' (s. pahāna).
  
patisambhidā
  
patisandhi
patisankhāna-bala and bhāvanā-bala
patisankhānupassanā-ñāna: 'knowledge consisting in
reflective contemplation"; is one of the 9 knowledges constituting the
'purification by knowledge and vision of the path-progress' (patipadā-ñānadassanavisuddhi;
s. visuddhi VI), and one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (mahāvipassanā;
s. vipassanā).
  
pativedha 
  
patta-pindik'anga: the 'exercise of the bowl-eater', is
one of the 13 ascetic purification-exercises (dhutanga), consisting
in the vow of using only the alms-bowl for eating, and the rejection of any
other vessel. 
  
patti-dāna 
  
penetration 
  perfections, the 10: pāramī.
  perfect one, the: tathāgata.
  performance and avoidance: cāritta-vāritta.
  permanency, idea of: s. vipallāsa.
  personality: s. sakkāya. For personality-belief,
s. sakkāya ditthi, 
  ditthi, attā, 
  satta, puggala, 
  vipallāsa.
  perversions, the 4: vipallāsa.
  peta (Sanskrit preta): lit. 'departed spirit',
ghost; s. loka.
  petti-visaya: 'ghost realm'; s. loka.
  
phala 
  
phassa 
  
picked-up rags, wearing robes made from: s. dhutanga. 
  
  
pindapātik'anga: The 'practice of going for alms', is
one of the 13 ascetic purification-exercises (s. dhutanga).
  
  
pīta-kasina: 'yellow-kasina', is one of the
kasina-exercises; s. kasina. 
  
pīti 
  planes of existence, the 3: s. avacara.
  pleasantness, idea of: s. vipallāsa, 
  subhanimitta.
  pondering: s. vīmamsā.
  post-nascence: pacchājāta-paccaya, one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
  postures, the 4 bodily: iriyāpatha.
  
powers
  
  practice: For theory, practice and realization, s. 
  pariyatti.
  predominance and pre-nascence: adhipati, purejāta,
are 2 of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  preparatory concentration (and preparatory image, etc.):
s. samādhi, javana.
  prescribed moral rules: paññatti-sīla.
  proclivities: s. anusaya.
  produced corporeality: nipphanna-rūpa.
  productive (or regenerative) karma; s. karma.
  proficiency (of mental factors and consciousness):
   pāguññatā.
  
progress 
  
progress of the disciple 
  
proximity: anantara, is one of the 24 conditions
(paccaya). 
  
pubbenivāsānussati: 'remembrance of former births', is
one of the higher powers (abhiññā), and a factor of threefold
knowledge (tevijja). 
  
puggala 
  
pūjā 
  
punabbhava 
  
puñña 
  
puññābhisankhāra: 'meritorious karma-formations' of
the sensuous and fine-material sphere; s. sankhāra I.1.
  
  
puññā-dhārā 
  
puñña-kiriya-vatthu 
  pure abodes: suddhāvāsa.
  purejāta-paccaya: 'pre-nascence', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
  purification, the 7 stages of; s. visuddhi.
  purisindriya: 'Virility'; s. bhāva, 
  khandha.
  purity, the elements of the effort for: 
  pārisuddhipadhāniyanga.
  
puthujjana
  
  questions and answers:
  pañhā-byākarana.
  
  
  
 
 
 