BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - An - Ay

• animitta-ceto-vimutti: 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