BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - E -
- earnestness: appamāda.
- earth-element: s. dhātu (I).
- eating, knowing the measure in
bhojane mattaññutā.
- effort, the 4 right e.: samma-ppadhāna; s.
padhāna. Right e. s.
sacca (IV 6), magga
(6) . - 5 elements of e.:
padhāniyanga.
- ego-entity: attā (q.v.).
- ego-belief: s. ditthi,
sakkāya-ditthi,
vipallāsa.
- ego-idea, ego-perception: s. vipallāsa.
- egolessness: anattā.
- eightfold path: s. magga.
- eka-bījī: 'germinating only once more', is the name for one of the 3
kinds of Stream-winners: s. Sotāpanna.
- ekāsanik'anga: the exercise of eating at one sitting, is one of the
ascetic practices; s. dhutanga.
- eka-vokāra-bhava: one-group existence,
is the existence of the unconscious beings (asañña-satta)
as they possess only the corporeality-group. Cf.
catu-vokāra-bhava,
pañca-vokāra-bhava.
- elasticity (of corporeality, mental factors or consciousness):
mudutā; s. khandha (Corporeality
I.B.) and Tab.II.
- elders, the teaching of the: Theravāda.
- elements: dhātu. - Analysis of the
4 e.: dhātu-vavatthāna.
- emotion: 8 sources of e.:
samvega-vatthu (q.v.). The 4 places rousing emotion;
samvejanīya-tthāna.
- emptiness: suññatā. - Contemplation
of e.: suññatānupassanā. - For emptiness of self, pertaining to
the 4 truths, s. sacca.
- ends: 'attaining two ends simultaneously';
sama-sīsī.
- energy: viriya; further s.
bojjhanga, bala,
pāramī.
- enlightened one, the: Buddha; s.
sammā-sambuddha.
- enlightenment: bodhi. - The 7
elements of e.: bojjhanga. - A
being destined for e.: Bodhisatta.
- enthusiasm: pīti.
- envy: issā.
- equality-conceit: s. māna.
- equanimity: upekkhā =
tatra-majjhattatā. - Knowledge
consisting in e. with regard to all formations, s.
visuddhi (VI, 8). - Indulging in e.,
s. manopavicāra.
- equilibrium of mental faculties:
indriya-samatta.
- escape: nissarana (s. pahāna).
- eternity: cf. kappa.
- eternity-belief: sassata-ditthi; s.
ditthi.
- exertion: see padhāna,
viriya, magga
(6). - Reaching Nibbāna with or without e.; s.
Anāgāmi.
- existence: bhava. - The 5 groups
of e.: khandha - The 4 substrata
of e.: upadhi. - Courses of e.:
gati. - Wheel of e.:
samsāra. - Craving for e.:
bhava-tanhā; s. tanhā; - The 3
characteristics of e.: ti-lakkhana.
- expression (bodily and verbal): s.
viññatti.
- extinction: s. nirodha;
- of craving: tanhakkhaya.
- extremes: the two e. and the middle path; s.
majjhima-patipadā.
- eye: 5 kinds, s. cakkhu. - Visual
organ, s. āyatana.
- eye-consciousness: cakkhu-viññāna; s.
dhātu, khandha.
- eye-organ: s. āyatana.
