BUDDHIST DICTIONARY
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'lightness', or 'agility', may be of 3 kinds: of
corporeality (rūpassa lahutā; s. khandha I ), of mental factors
(kāya-lahutā), and of consciousness (citta-lahutā). Cf.
Tab.II.
lakkhana: 'characteristics'. For the 3 ch. of existence,
s. ti-lakkhana.
law: dhamma.
learning, wisdom based on: s. paññā.
liberality: dāna,
cāga.
liberation: s. vimokkha.
life-infatuation: s. mada.
light, perception of: s. āloka-saññā.
light-kasina: s. kasina.
lightness (of corporeality, mental factors and
consciousness): lahutā.
loathsomeness (of the body): s. asubha,
sivathikā,
kāyagatāsati.
lobha: 'greed', is one of the 3 unwholesome roots (mūla) and a synonym of
rāga and tanhā.
lobha-carita: 'greedy-natured', s. carita.
lofty consciousness: s. sobhana.
lohita-kasina: 'red-kasina', s. kasina.
loka
loka-dhamma: 'worldly conditions'. "Eight things are
called worldly conditions, since they arise in connection with worldly life,
namely: gain and loss, honour and dishonour, happiness and misery, praise and
blame" (Vis.M. XXII). Cf. also A.VIII.5.
lokiya
lokuttara
loving-kindness: mettā; s. brahmavihāra.
lower fetters, the 5: s. samyojana.
lower worlds, the 4: apāya.
low speech: tiracchāna-kathā.
lust: s. rāga.
