BUDDHIST
DICTIONARY - U -
'annihilation-view'; s. ditthi.
udayabbayānupassanā-ñāna: 'knowledge consisting in
the contemplation of rise and fall', is the first of the 9 insight-knowledges
constituting the purification by knowledge and vision of the path-progress'. For
details, s. visuddhi VI.1.
uddhacca
uddhambhāgiya-samyojana: the 5 'higher fetters'; s.
samyojana.
uddhamsota-akanitthagāmī: 'passing upstream to the
highest gods', is one of the 5 kinds of Non-returners (anāgāmī).
uggaha-nimitta: s. nimitta.
ugghatitaññu
ujukatā: (kāya-, citta- ): 'uprightness' (of mental
factors and of consciousness), is associated with all pure consciousness. Cf.
Tab. II.
unconditioned, the: asankhata. -
Contemplation of the u. (= animitta); s.
vipassanā.
unconscious beings: asaññā-satta.
understanding: s. ditthi,
ñāna, paññā,
pariññā.
- Right u., s. magga (1).
sacca (IV.1).
unit: s. kalāpa,
rūpa-kalāpa.
unprepared, unprompted: s. asankhārika-citta.
unshakable deliverance: s. cetto-vimutti.
unshakable one, the: akuppa-dhamma.
unthinkable things, the 4: acinteyya.
unwholesome, karmically: akusala.
upacāra: 'moment of access'; s. javana.
upacāra-samādhi: 'neighbourhood or access-concentration',
is the degree of concentration just before entering any of the absorptions, or jhānas.
It still belongs to the sensuous sphere (kāmāvacara; s.
avacara).
upacaya, rūpassa: 'growth of corporeality'; s.
khandha I; App.
upacchedaka-kamma: 'destructive karma'; s. karma.
upādāna
upādāna-kkhandha: the 5 'groups of clinging', or more
clearly stated in accordance with Vis.M., 'the 5 groups of existence which form
the objects of clinging'. Cf. M. 44, and see khandha.
upādā-rūpa: 'derived corporeality', signifies the 24
secondary corporeal phenomena dependent on the 4 primary physical elements, i.e.
the sense-organs and sense-objects, etc. See khandha I; App.
upadhi
upādi
upādinna-rūpa
upaghātaka-kamma: 'destructive karma'; s. karma.
upahacca-parinibbāyī: 'one who reaches Nibbāna within
the first half of life', is one of the 5 kinds of Anāgāmī (q.v.).
upakkilesa
upanissaya-paccaya: 'decisive support' or 'inducement',
is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
upapajja-vedanīya-kamma: 'karma ripening in the next
birth'; s. karma.
upapatti-bhava: 'rebirth-process'; s. bhava.
upapīlaka-kamma: 'suppressive kamma'; s. karma.
upāsaka
upasamānussati
upāsikā: 'female adherent'; s. upāsaka.
upatthambhaka-kamma: 'supportive karma'; s. karma.
upavicāra: s. manopavicāra.
upekkhā
upekkhā-ñāna = sankhārupekkhā-ñāna.
upekkhā-sambojjhanga: 'equanimity as factor of
enlightenment'; s. bojjhanga.
upekkhā-sukha: 'equanimous happiness,' is the feeling of
happiness accompanied by a high degree of equanimity (upekkhā) as, e.g.
in the 3rd absorption (jhāna).
upekkhā-vedanā: s. vedanā.
upekkhindriya: the 'faculty of indifference', is one of
the 5 elements of feeling (M.115) and therefore not to be confounded with the
ethical quality 'equanimity', also called upekkhā.
upekkhopavicāra: 'indulging in indifference'; s.
manopavicāra.
uposatha
uprightness: ujukatā.
upstream to the highest gods, passing: s. anāgāmī.
usages, the 4 noble: ariya-vamsa.
utu: temperature, heat, is identical with the
heat-element (tejodhātu).
utu-samutthāna (- utuja)-rūpa: 'corporeality
produced by temperature'; s. samutthāna.
