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The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha

Page 152

by Bhikkhu Nanamoli


  veramaṇı̄ abstinence

  vessa merchant (caste)

  vossagga relinquishment

  vohāra expression

  *vyāpajjitar one who undertakes (work) (124.32)

  saṁyojana fetter

  saṁvaṭṭa world-contraction

  saṁvara restraint

  saṁvega sense of urgency

  saṁsāra round of births

  sakadāgāmin once-returner

  sakkāya identity

  sakkāyadiṭṭhi identity view

  sakkāra honour

  sagga heaven

  sankappa intention

  sankilesa defilement

  sankhata conditioned

  sankhāra formation

  sangaṇika society

  sangha untranslated: (1) the Buddhist monastic order; (2) the community of noble disciples

  sacca truth

  saññā perception

  *saññūḷha concocted (56.30)

  sati mindfulness

  satipaṭṭhāna foundation of mindfulness

  satta being

  sattapada position of beings

  saddhamma (1) true Dhamma; (2) good quality

  saddhā faith

  saddhānusārin faith-follower

  santa peaceful

  santi peace

  santosa contentment

  sandiṭṭhika visible here and now

  sappurisa true man

  sabba all

  sabbaññū omniscient

  sama righteous

  samaṇa recluse

  samatha (1) serenity; (2) stilling (of formations); (3) settlement (of litigation)

  *samanvāneti to find (131.4)

  samācāra conduct, behaviour

  samādhi concentration

  samāpatti attainment (in meditation)

  samudaya origin, arising

  sampajañña full awareness

  samphappalāpa gossip

  sambojjhanga enlightenment factor

  sambodhi enlightenment

  sammā (1) fully, completely; (2) right(ly)

  saraṇa refuge

  sallekha effacement

  saḷāyatana sixfold base

  sassata eternal

  sāṭheyya fraud

  sāmaggı̄ concord

  sārambha rivalry

  sāsana Dispensation (of Buddha)

  sikkhā training

  sikkhāpada training precept

  siloka praise

  sı̄la (1) virtue; (2) habit; (3) rule

  sı̄labbata rules and observances

  sukha pleasure, pleasant, bliss

  sugata sublime, Sublime One

  sugati good destination

  suññatā voidness

  suta (1) heard; (2) learning

  sudda worker (caste)

  suddhāvāsa Pure Abodes

  subha beauty, beautiful

  *suvaca easy to admonish (15.4)

  *suvihata fully stretched out (121.5)

  *susamanniṭṭha well investigated (pp. su + samannesati) (47.16)

  sekha disciple in higher training

  senāsana resting place

  soka sorrow

  sotāpanna stream-enterer

  somanassa joy

  *hassaka ridiculous (80.15; 99.10)

  hita welfare

  hiri shame

  hetu cause

  Index of Subjects

  THIS INDEX LISTS SIGNIFICANT REFERENCES only. Italicised numbers refer to the page numbers of the Introduction; references to sutta passages give sutta number followed by section number. The abbreviation “ff.” is here used to indicate that the term of entry pertains to a continuing or repetitive sequence of sections and does not necessarily mean that the term occurs in every section of the sequence. References may be listed under an entry even when the term itself does not appear in the text, as long as the passage is pertinent to the term of entry.

  When a stock formulation is applied to each term in a set of categories, the reference is usually given only under the name of the set, not under the individual items belonging to that set. For example, the passage on the enlightenment factors at 2.21 is registered under Enlightenment factors, but not under the names of the individual factors. Cross-references ensure that essential references are not overlooked.

  Pali equivalents are provided for all key doctrinal terms, though not for terms of lesser importance or for entries without an exact Pali counterpart. With few exceptions, the Pali term is given in the singular, even though the English entry may be plural. When two Pali words with a different denotation are rendered by a single English word, the two are listed as separate entries—e.g., Mind is listed twice, corresponding to citta and to mano. When a single English word represents two Pali words with overlapping meanings but different contextual usage, the two sets of references are classified within the same entry separated by a slash—e.g., Compassion as a rendering for both karuṇā and anukampā.

  Abhidhamma

  Acquisition (upadhi); objects of

  Action (kamma) and feelingbeings heirs of fourfold; great exposition of; Nigaṇṭhas’ theory of; purification of; that ends action; threefold. See also Conduct; Divine Eye; Reappearance

  Action (kammanta): right; wrong. See also Noble Eightfold Path

  Adhesion (ālaya)

  Ageing (jarā); and death

  Aggregates (khandha); and clinging; and Tathāgata; as basis for agitation; as feeble, etc.; as impermanent, etc.; as not self; as personality; as self; as suffering; delight in; gratification in, etc., ; rise and fall of

  Agitation (paritassanā)

  Air element (vāyodhātu); meditation like. See also Elements

  Ājı̄vakas

  All (sabba)

  Almsfood (piṇḍapāta). See also Ascetic practices; Eating

  Altruistic joy (muditā); as basis for insight; as immeasurable deliverance; as path to Brahma-world

  Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta

  Anger (kodha, kopa). See also Hate; Ill will

  Animal realm (tiracchānayoni)

  Annihilationism (ucchedavāda). See also Views: wrong

  Applied thought (vitakka). See also Jhāna

  Approval (ruci)

  Arahant; achievement of; as brahmin; epithets of; foundations of; no conceiving; ten factors of; testing claims of; torments none; typology of

  Arrogance (atimāna)

  Ascetic practices

  Assemblies

  Attained-to-view (diṭṭhippatta)

  Avarice (macchariya)

  Aversion (paṭigha). See also Anger; Hate; Ill will

  Bad character (tassapāpiyyasika)

  Bases (āyatana); as impermanent, etc.; as not self; desire for; external; internal; not clinging to See also Faculties, sense

  Beauty; liberation of; sign of

  Being (bhava); cessation of; renewal of. See also Taints

  Beings (bhūta)

  Bhikkhu: called a recluse, etc.; crossed attachment; difficult to correct; easy to correct; evil wishes of; honoured; how he shines,; (in)capable of growth; liberated; master of thoughts; restrained from taints; reviewing self; tamed death; worthy of gifts

  Bhikkhunı̄(s)

  Birth (jāti)

  Blemish (angaṇa)

  Bliss of renunciation, etc.

  Bodhisatta. See Buddha

  Body (kāya); as not self; contemplation of; mindfulness of

  Body-witness (kāyasakkhin)

  Brahmā(s); assembly of; B.-world; Wheel of. See also Index of Proper Names, Baka the B.; B. Sahampati; B. Sanankumāra

  Brahmajāla Sutta

  Brahmin(s); arahant as. See also Castes; Recluses and brahmins

  Buddha: and omniscience; arouser of path; as knowledge and vision; conception and birth; conduct; confidence in; definition of; early life; enlightenment; eye of; footprints of; fully enlightened; good report of; honoured by disciples; impossible for; leader of men; lucidity of wisdom;
not subject to delusion,; quest for enlightenment; past and future; physical characteristics; praise of; supernormal powers; teacher of group See also Tathāgata

  Castes

  Celibacy (brahmacariya)

  Cessation (nirodha); of being; of formations; of identity; of suffering. See also Four Noble Truths; Nibbāna

  Cessation of perception and feeling (saññāvedayitanirodha); and death; as basis for insight; as blindfolding Māra; as liberation

  Charnel ground contemplations

  Clinging (upādāna); and five aggregates; best object of; to doctrine of self

  Cognized (viññāta)

  Compassion (karuṇā); as basis for insight as immeasurable deliverance; as path to Brahma-world / (anukampā); for disciples

  Conceit (māna),

  Conceiving (maññita)

  Concentration (samādhi); complacency over; enlightenment factor; obstacles to. See also Enlightenment factors; Faculties, spiritual; Jhānas; Noble Eightfold Path; Spiritual power, bases for

  Conception (of embryo)

  Concord (sāmaggı̄)

  Conduct (caraṇa) / (samācāra). See also Action

  Confession of wrong

  Confidence (pasāda); unwavering. See also Faith

  Conflict (raṇa)

  Confrontation (sammukhā)

  Consciousness (viññāṇa); aggregate of; bound by desire; dependently arisen; distracted externally; impermanent; leading to rebirth; manifestation of; mind-c.; not self; stuck internally. See also Aggregates

  Contact (phassa); not self

  Contempt (makkha)

  Contentment (santosa)

  Converting magic

  Cordiality, principles of (sārāṇı̄yā dhammā)

  Counsellor-treasure

  Covering with grass

  Covetousness (abhijjhā); abandoning of. See also Greed; Lust; Sensual desire

  Craving (taṇhā); abandoned; as arrow; deliverance from; not self; origin of personality; origin of suffering. See also Four Noble Truths; Taints

  Cruelty (vihiṁsā). See also Killing

  Death (maraṇa); in Noble One’s Discipline; realm of

  Deathless (amata). See also Nibbāna

  Deceit (māyā)

  Defiled Radiance, gods of (sankiliṭṭhābhā devatā)

  Defilement (sankilesa)

  Delight (nandı̄); and lust; in Dhamma / (rati)

  Delight in creating, gods who (nimmānaratı̄ devā)

  Deliverance (vimutti); by wisdom (paññāvimutti); of mind (cetovimutti); perpetual (asamaya); unshakeable (akuppa); with simile. See also Knowledge of destruction of taints; Liberation

  Delusion (moha). See also Ignorance

  Dependent origination (paṭicca samuppāda); as the Dhamma; hard to see

  Desire (chanda). See Craving; Lust; Sensual desire

  Desireless (appaṇihita)

  Despair (upāyāsa)

  Destination (gati). See also Divine eye; Reappearance

  Dhamma: as refuge; badly proclaimed; confidence in; desire for; doubt about; good in the beginning, etc.; growth in; hearing; heirs in; higher (abhidhamma); inspiration in; man’s own wealth; monuments to; profound; purpose of; reflective acceptance of; similar to raft; summaries of; teaching of; visible here and now; vision of; well proclaimed; Wheel of. See also Dispensation; Holy life

  Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta

  Dhamma-follower (dhammānusārin)

  Diligence (appamāda)

  Direct knowledge (abhiññā); consummation of

  Disciple in higher training (sekha). See also Noble disciple

  Discontent (arati)

  Disenchantment (nibbidā) / (anabhirati)

  Dispassion (virāga). See also Fading away

  Dispensation (sāsana). See also Dhamma; Holy life

  Dispute (vivāda); six roots of

  Diversity (nānatta)

  Divine abodes (brahmavihāra) See also Altruistic joy; Compassion; Equanimity; Loving-kindness

  Divine ear (dibbasota)

  Divine eye (dibbacakkhu); and Buddha’s knowledge of kammic retribution; and theories of rebirth.; with simile

  Divine messengers (devad̄ūta)

  Doubt (vicikicchā); abandoning of; purification by overcoming See also Fetters; Hindrances

  Earth element (pạhavı̄dh̄ātu); meditation like. See also Elements

  Eating: at right time; at single session; little; meat; moderation in; to excess

  Eel-wriggling (amar̄vikkhepa)

  Effacement (sallekha)

  Effort, right (samm̄ā v̄āȳāma). See also Energy; Noble Eightfold Path; Striving: right

  Elation (ubbilla)

  Elements (dhātu); eighteen; great elements (mah̄bh̄ta); six

  Elephant-treasure

  Endurance (adhiv̄āsan̄ā)

  Energy (viriya); enlightenment factor of See also Enlightenment factors; Faculties, spiritual; Striving: right

  Enlightenment (sambodhi); bliss of

  Enlightenment factors (bojjhanga)

  Enthusiasm (ussolhi)

  Envy (iss̄ā)

  Equanimity (upekkhā); as divine abode,; as immeasurable deliverance; as path to Brahma-world; based on diversity; based on unity; enlightenment factor of; insight based on; of household life; of renunciation See also Enlightenment factors; Jhānas

  Eternalism (sassatavāda). See also Views: speculative

  Evil One. See Index of Proper Names, Māra

  Evil wishes (pāpicchā)

  Exalted deliverance of mind (mahaggatacetovimutti)

  Expressions (vohāra)

  Extinguishing (parinibbāna)

  Extolling and disparaging

  Faculties, sense (indriya) See also Bases; Restraint of faculties

  Faculties, spiritual (indriya)

  Fading away (virāga). See also Dispassion

  Faith (saddhā); supported by reasons. See also Confidence; Faculties, spiritual

  Faith-follower (saddhānusārin)

  False speech (musāvāda); abstention from

  Fear (bhaya)

  Fear of wrongdoing (ottappa)

  Feeling (vedanā); aggregate of; and growth towards wholesome; and underlying tendencies; contemplation of; dependent on contact; full understanding of; impermanent; in arahant; in noble disciple; in ordinary person; in realms of rebirth; in Tathāgata; Niga˚ṭhas’ theory; not self. See also Aggregates

  Fetters (saṁyojana)

  Final knowledge (aññā). See also Arahant; Knowledge of destruction of taints

  Fire element (tejodhātu); meditation like. See also Elements

  Fool (bāla)

  Forest dwelling

  Formations (sankhāra); as aggregate; as volitional actions; bodily, verbal, mental; not self; vital. See also Aggregates

  Foulness (asubha)

  Foundations (adhitthāna)

  Foundations of mindfulness. See Mindfulness, foundations of

  Four Great Kings, gods of (cātummahārājikā devā)

  Four Noble Truths (ariyasacca); as Buddhas’ special teaching; as Wheel of Dhamma. See also Knowledge of destruction of taints

  Fraud (sāṭheyya)

  Fruition attainment (phalasamāpatti)

  Full admission (upasampadā) See also Going forth

  Full awareness (sampajañña). See also Mindfulness: foundations of

  Full understanding (pariññā); of aggregates; of clinging; of everything; of feeling; of material form; of sensual pleasures

  Gain and honour

  Generation (yoni)

  Generosity (cāga). See also Giving

  Ghosts (peta)

  Giving (dāna)

  Gladness (pāmojja)

  Goal (niṭṭhā)

  Gods (deva)

  Going forth (pabbajjā); out of faith; without faith; why go forth?

  Good qualities (saddhamma)

  Gossip (samphappalāpa)abstention fromSee also Talk: pointless<
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  Gotamaka Sutta

  Gradual training (anupubbasikkhā)

  Great Fruit, gods of (vehapphalā devā)

 

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