Buddhist Dictionary by Tỳ-khưu Nyanatiloka

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -Y- yakkha: in popular belief, a kind of ghost, goblin. or ogre. Yāma-deva: are a kind of heavenly

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY   -W- water-element: āpo-dhātu (s. dhātu). water-kasiṇa, white-k., wind-k.: s. kasiṇa. weighty kamma: garuka kamma (s. kamma). wheel

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -V- vācā: ‘speech’. On right sp., s. magga (3), sacca (IV.3). – Low talk, s. tiracchāna-kathā. vacī-kamma: ‘verbal

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -U- ubhato-bhāga-vimutta: the ‘both-ways-liberated one’, is the name of one class of noble disciples (ariya-puggala, q.v.). He is

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -T- tadaṅga-pahāna: ‘ovcrcoming by the opposite’, is one of the 5 kinds of overcoming (pahāna, q.v.). tadārammaṇa-citta: ‘registering

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -S- sabba-loke anabhirati-saññā: ‘contemplation on disinterestedness regarding the whole world’, described in A. X., 60 in the following

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -R- radiant gods: ābhassara; cf. deva. rāga: ‘lust’, ‘greed’, is a synonym of lobha (s. mūla), taṇhā (q.v.)

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -Q- questions and answers: pañhā-byākaraṇa (q.v.).    

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -P- pabbajjā: lit. ‘the going forth’, or more fully stated, ‘the going forth from home to the homeless

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -O- obduracies,the 5 mental: ceto-khila (q.v.). obhāsa: ‘effulgence of light’, aura, appearing at times during deep insight (vipassanā),

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -N- nāma: (lit. ‘name’): ‘mind’, mentality. This term is generally used as a collective name for the 4

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -M- macchariya: ‘stinginess’, avarice. “There are 5 kinds of stinginess, o monks; regarding the dwelling place, regarding families,

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -L- lahutā: ‘lightness’, or ‘agility’, may be of 3 kinds: of corporeality (rūpassa lahutā; s. khandha, I ),

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -K- kabalinkārāhāra: lit. ‘food formed into balls’, i.e. food formed into mouthfuls for eating (according to Indian custom);

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -J- janaka-kamma: ‘regenerative kamma’; s. kamma. jarā: ‘old age, decay’, is one of the 3 divine messengers (s.

BUDDHIST DICTIONARY -I- iddhi: ‘power’, ‘magical power’. The magical powers constitute one of the 6 kinds of higher spiritual powers