BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - An - Ay
s.
ceto-vimutti.
animittānupassanā: s. vipassanā.
animitta-vimokkha: s. vimokkha.
añña: 'other', being of the opposite category.
aññā
aññāmañña-paccaya: 'mutuality-condition,' is one of the 24 conditions
(paccaya).
aññātāvindriya: 'the faculty of one who knows'; s.
indriya 22.
aññindriya: 'the faculty of highest knowledge'; s.
aññā and indriya
21.
anottappa: s. ahirika.
answering questions: 4 ways of: s. pañhā-byākarana.
antarā-parinibbāyī: is one of the 5 kinds of Non-Returners or
Anāgāmī.
antinomies: s. ditthi.
anuloma-citta
anuloma-ñāna
anupādisesa-nibbāna: see Nibbāna,
upādi.
anupassanā
anupubba-nirodha
anupubba-vihāra
ānupubbī-kathā
anurakkhana-padhāna: the 'effort to maintain' wholesome states; s.
padhāna.
anusaya
anussati
aparāpariya-vedanīya-kamma: 'karma bearing fruits in later births'; s.
karma.
aparihāna-dhamma
aparihāniya-dhamma
apāya
āpo-dhātu: 'water-element'; s. dhātu.
appamāda
appamānābha: a kind of heavenly being; s.
deva, (II).
appamāna-ceto-vimutti: s.
ceto-vimutti.
appamāna-subha: a kind of heavenly being: s.
deva (II).
appamaññā: The 4 'Boundless States', identical with
brahma-vihāra.
appanā-samādhi
appanihita-vimokkha: s. vimokkha.
appanihitānupassanā: s. vipassanā.
appendants, The 3: kiñcana.
appicchatā: 'having only few wishes',
contentedness, is one of the indispensable virtues of the monk; cf.
A.X.181-190, and ariyavamsa.
apuññābhisankhāra: s. sankhāra.
Arahat and arahatta-magga,-phala: s.
ariya-puggala.
ārammana
ārammanādhipati, ārammanupanissaya: s.
paccaya.
āraññikanga: The 'exercise of the forest-dweller', is one of the
ascetic purification-exercises (dhutanga).
arising and vanishing (of things). The knowledge consisting in the
contemplation of; s. visuddhi (VI. 1.).
ariya-iddhi: s. iddhi.
ariya-magga: s. foll.
ariya-puggala
or ariya
ariya-sacca: The Four 'Noble Truths'; s.
sacca.
ariya-vamsa
ariya-vihāra: s. vihāra.
arūpa-bhava: s. bhava,
loka.
arūpa-jjhāna: - s. jhāna.
arūpa-kkhandha: The four 'immaterial groups' of existence are: feeling,
perception, mental formations, consciousness; s.
khandha.
arūpāvacara: s. avacara.
āruppa: s. jhāna.
asankhāra-parinibbāyī: The 'one reaching Nibbāna without exertion', is
one of the five classes of Non-Returners (Anāgāmī)
asankhārika-citta
asankhata: The 'Unformed, Unoriginated,
Unconditioned' is a name for Nibbāna,
the beyond of all becoming and conditionality.
asañña-satta
āsava
āsavakkhaya: see above.
ascending insight: s.
vutthāna-gāminī-vipassanā.
ascetic purification practices: s.
dhutanga.
asekha
āsevana-paccaya: 'repetition', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
asmi-māna
assāsa-passāsa
association: sampayutta-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
asubha
asura: 'demons', titans, evil ghosts, inhabiting one of the lower
worlds (apāya).
atappa
atimāna: 'superiority-conceit'; s. māna.
attā
attachments: s. parāmāsa.
atta-ditthi (-vāda): 'ego-belief', 'personality-belief', s.
ditthi.
attainment-concentration:
appanā-samādhi; s. samādhi.
attainments, 'The 8 a.'; s.
samāpatti.
atta-kilamatha
atta-saññā (°citta, °ditthi): 'perception (consciousness,
view) of an ego', is one of the 4 perversions (vipallāsa).
atta-vādupādāna: 'attachment to the ego-belief', is one of the 4 kinds
of clinging (upādāna).
attention: s. manasikāra.
attentiveness, attention, mindfulness; s.
sati, satipatthāna.
atthangika-magga: The 'Eightfold Path'; s.
magga.
attha-patisambhidā: The 'analytical knowledge of meaning', is one of
the 4 kinds of analytical knowledge (patisambhidā).
atthi-paccaya: 'presence', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya)
.
auditory organ: s. āyatana.
avacara
āvajjana
aversion (from existence), contemplation of: s.
vipassanā (VI . 5)
Avīci is the name of one of the most frightful hells (niraya).
avigata-paccaya: 'non-disappearance', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
aviha
avihimsā
avijjā
avikkhepa
avoidance and performance: s.
cāritta, etc. - The effort to avoid, s.
padhāna.
avyākata
avyāpāda
awakenment: s. bodhi.
āyatana
āyūhana
