Appendix - Glossary
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right- : samma-
wrong- : miccha
activities, volitional: sankhara
adverting: avajjana
-of grasping: upadanakkhandha
analysis: vavatthana
- of four elements: catudhatuvavatthana
analytical knowledge of mind and matter: nama rupa pariccheda nana
becoming: bhava
- of body: kayanupassana
bad- : duggati
good- : sugati
chronic state of life: satatavihara
Compendium of Philosophy: Abhidhammattha sangaha
concomitant (of mind) cetasika
constituent (of Path): (magg-)anga
contemplation: anupassana
- of body: kayanupassana
- of feeling: vedananupassana
- of mental factors: dhammanupassana
- of mind: cittanupassana
continuity: santati
death mindfulness: maranassati
bad- : akusala-
good- : kusala-
dependent origination: paticca samuppada
determining consciousness: votthapana
- hearing: dibbasota
device: kasina
door (sense door): dvara
right- : samma vayama
equanimity (indifference): upekkha
establishment of mindfulness: satipatthana
factor of enlightenment: sambojjhanga
foul thing: asubha
fruit(ion): phala
function (property): rasa, kicca
going to the refuge: saranagamana
happy condition in this world: dittha dhamma sukhavihara
higher knowledge (superknowledge): abhinna
inferential insight: anumana vipassana
initial application: vitakka
intimation: vinnatti
investigation consciousness: santirana
investigation of dhamma: dhamma vicaya
- analytical, of mind and matter: nama rupa pariccheda nana
- of desire for deliverance: muncitu kamyata nana
- of (by) discerning conditionality: paccaya pariggaha nana
- of dissolution: bhanga nana
- of indifference to formations: sakharupekkha nana
- of reflection (re observation): patisankha nana
- of repulsion (disgust): nibbida nana
- of rise and fall (rising and passing away): udayabbaya nana
- of the fearful: bhaya nana
- of tribulation: adinava nana
law: dhamma
right- : samma-
wrong- : miccha-
loathsomeness of food: ahare patikula sanna
lower states: apaya
manifestation (mode of appearance): paccupatthana
matter (material, physical, form): rupa
means of accomplishment: iddhipada
mental quality (mind, psychological): nama
mode of appearance: (see manifestation)
neutral feeling: adukkha m-asukha vedana
Never returner: (non returner): anagami
-eightfold path: ariyo atthangiko maggo
notion: sanna
- of permanence: niccasanna
object - latent: arammananusaya
Order (of arahts): sangha
origin (origination, cause): samudaya
part of enlightenment: bodhipakkhiya
the ariyan- : ariyamagga
Path of Purity (Purification): Visuddhi Magga
pity (compassion): karuna
pleasant (pleasurable, happy): sukha
power: bala
practical (personal insight): paccakkha vippassana
process: vithi
property (function) rasa
proximate cause (immedediate occasion): padatthana
quietude (tranquillity): passaddhi
rebirth consciousness: patisandhi citta
receiving (recipient) consciousness: sampaticchana
respiration: anapana
retentive (registering) consciousness: tadarammana
specification (analysis): vavatthana
right- : samma
wrong- : miccha-
Stream winner: sotapanna
subject of meditation: kammatthana
subsequent process: anuvattakavithi
suffering (ill, misery, pain): dukkha
Supreme Buddha: sammasambuddha
supreme effort: sammappadhana
sympathy (sympathetic joy): mudita
right- : samma sankappa
wrong- : miccha sankappa
transcending doubts: kankhavitarana
view (wrong view) ditthi
volitional activities: sankhara
wrong: miccha