BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - V -
'speech'. On right sp., s. magga (3),
sacca
(IV.3). - Low talk, s. tiracchāna-kathā.
vacī-kamma: 'verbal action'; s. karma,
kamma-patha.
vacī-sankhāra
vacī-viññatti: s. viññatti.
vanishing, Contemplation of: vayānupassanā, is
one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassāna).
vanishing and reappearing: knowledge of the v. and r.
of beings according to karma, is identical with the divine eye (s.
abhiññā
5).
vāritta-sīla: 'morality consisting in avoiding' (evil
things), as distinguished from 'morality consisting in performing' (good
things). See caritta-varitta.
vasī
vatta
vatthu
vatthu-kāma: 'objective sensuality', the 5
sense-objects; s. kāma.
vavatthāna
vayānupassanā: 'contemplation of vanishing', is one of
the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassāna).
vāyo-dhātu: 'wind-element'; s. dhātu.
vāyo-kasina 'wind-kasina', is one of the kasina
exercises (kasina).
vedanā
vedanānupassanā: 'contemplation of feeling', is one of
the 4 foundations of mindfulness (satipatthāna).
vehapphala is the name of a class of heavenly beings in
the fine-material world; s. deva.
verbal action: vacī-kamma; s. karma.
verbal functions of mind: vacī-sankhāra; s.
sankhāra.
vesārajja
vibhajja-vāda
vibhava ditthi = uccheda-ditthi; s.
ditthi.
vibhava-tanhā: 'craving for non-existence', or for
self-annihilation; s. tanhā.
vicāra: 'discursive thinking'; s.
vitakka-vicāra.
vicikicchā
view, right: sammā-ditthi; s. ditthi,
magga
1, sacca IV.1. - For wrong view, s.
ditthi.
vigata-paccaya: 'disappearance', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
vihāra
vijjā: '(higher) knowledge', gnosis. For the 3-fold k.,
s. abhiññā and te-vijjā. Cf. foll.
vijjā-carana
vikkhambhana-pahāna: 'overcoming by repression' (or
'suspension'), is one of the 5 kinds of overcoming (pahāna).
vikubbanā-iddhi: the 'power of transformation', is one
of the magical faculties (iddhi).
vimamsā: 'investigation, inquiry, pondering', is one of
the 4 roads to power (iddhi-pāda) and one of the 4 factors of
predominance (s. paccaya 3).
vimokkha
vimutti
vinipāta
viññāna
viññāna-kicca
viññānañcāyatana: 'sphere of boundless consciousness is
a name for the 2nd meditative absorption in the immaterial sphere (s.
jhāna
6).
viññāna-tthiti
viññatti
vipacitaññu (or vipañcitaññu): 'one who
realizes the truth after explanation.' Thus is called one who realizes the truth
only after detailed explanation of that which already had been said to him in a
concise form. Cf. ugghatitaññu.
vipāka
vipāka-paccaya: 'karma-result condition' is one of the
24 conditions (paccaya).
vipallāsa
viparināmānupassanā: 'contemplation of change' (of all
things), is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā).
vipassanā
vipassanā-yānika
= sukkha-vipassaka.
vipassanūpakkilesa: 'imperfections of insight'; s.
visuddhi.
vipatti
vippayutta-paccaya: 'dissociation', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
virāga
virāgānupassanā: s. prec.
virati
virility: s. bhāva.
viriya
viriya-sambojjhanga: 'energy as factor of enlightenment',
is one of the 7 factors of enlightenment (bojjhanga).
virtue: s. sīla.
visesa-bhāgiya-sīla: (-samādhi, -paññā):
morality (concentration, wisdom) connected with progress'. For details, s.
hānabhāgiya-sīla.
visible object: s. āyatana.
visuddhi
vitakka
vitakka-vicāra
vitality: jīvitindriya; s. indriya,
khandha
(corporeality, mental formations), Tab. II.
vīthi = citta-vīthi: 'process of consciousness'; s.
viññānakicca.
vivatta: 'absence of the cycle of existence' (vatta),
standstill of existence, is a name for Nibbāna (s.
nibbāna). - (App.).
vivatta-kappa: s. kappa.
vivattanānupassanā: 'contemplation of the turning
away', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā).
(App.).
viveka
viveka-sukha
vodāna
vohāra-desanā: 'conventional exposition', as
distinguished from an explanation true in the highest sense (paramattha-desanā). It is also called sammuti-sacca (in Sanskrit samvrti).
(App.).
void-deliverance; s. ceto-vimutti.
vokāra: s. pañca-vokāra-bhava.
volition: cetanā.
votthapana-citta
vutthāna-gāminī-vipassanā
vyāpāda: 'ill-will', is a synonym of dosa (s.
mūla);
it is one of the 5 hindrances (nīvarana) and one of the 10 fetters
(samyojana).
