BUDDHIST
DICTIONARY - P -
'purity of reflection', is a name for wise
consideration in using the 4 requisites allowed to the monk, i.e. robes, food,
dwelling, and medicine; s. sīla (4).
paccaya
paccaya-sannissita-sīla: 'morality consisting in the wise use of the
monk's requisites'; s. sīla (4).
pacceka-bodhi: 'independent enlightenment'; s. the foll. and
bodhi.
pacceka-buddha
pacchājāta-paccaya: 'post-nascence-condition', is one of the 24
conditions (paccaya).
pādaka-jjhāna
pada-parama
padhāna
padhāniyanga
pāguññatā: 'proficiency', namely, of mental
concomitants (kāya-pāguññatā), and of consciousness
(citta-pāguññatā),
are 2 mental phenomena associated with all wholesome consciousness. Cf.
Tab. II.
pahāna
pahāna-pariññā; s. pariññā.
pain, feeling of: s. vedanā.
pakati-sīla: 'natural or genuine morality',
is distinct from those outward rules of conduct laid down for either laymen or
monks. Those later are the so-called 'prescribed morality' (paññāttisīla).
Cf.
sīla.
pakati-upanissaya: 'direct inducement'; s.
paccaya.
palibodha
pamsukūlik'anga: the 'vow to wear only robes made from picked-up
rags', is one of the ascetic rules of purification; s.
dhutanga.
pānātipātā veramanī: 'abstaining from the killing of living beings',
is the first of the 5 moral rules binding upon all Buddhists; s.
sikkhāpada.
pañcadvārāvajjana: 'advertence to the 5-sense-doors'; s.
viññāna-kicca.
pañca-sīla: s.
sikkhāpada.
pañca-vokāra-bhava
pañhā-byākarana: 'answering questions'.
"There are, o monks, 4 ways of answering questions: there are questions
requiring a direct answer; questions requiring an explanation; questions to be
answered by counter-questions; questions to be rejected (as wrongly put)." See
D.33; A.III.68; A.IV.42.
paññā
paññatti-sīla: 'prescribed morality', is a
name for the disciplinary rules of the monk or layman prescribed by the
Buddha, as distinguished from natural or genuine morality (pakati-sīla;
s.
sīla).
paññā-vimutti
papañca
parāmāsa
paramattha
paramī, pāramitā
paranimmita-vasavatti-deva: 'heavenly beings with power over the
productions of others', constitute a class of heavenly beings in the sensuous
sphere (kāma-loka). Māra is
said to be their ruler. Cf.
loka,
deva I.
parassa ceto-pariya-ñāna: 'penetration of the mind of others', is one
of the higher powers (abhiññā).
paricchinnākāsa-kasina: 'limited-space kasina' = space kasina; s.
kasina. (App.).
parihāna-dhamma
parikamma: 'preparatory-moment': s. javana.
parikamma-nimitta: 'preparatory image'; s.
nimitta,
kasina.
parikamma-samādhi: 'preparatory concentration', is the initial and
still undeveloped concentration of mind; s.
samādhi.
parinibbāna
pariññā
pārisuddhi-padhāniyanga
pārisuddhi-sīla
parittābha and paritta-subha are 2 classes of heavenly beings
of the fine-material sphere; s.
deva (II).
pariyatti
pasāda-rūpa: 'sensitive corporeality', is a
name for the 5 physical sense-organs responding to sense-stimuli. Cf.
āyatana.
passaddhi-sambojjhanga: 'tranquillity, as factor of enlightenment',
consists in tranquillity of mental factors (kāya-passaddhi)
and tranquillity of consciousness (citta-passaddhi). Cf.
bojjhanga;
further Tab. II.
patched-up robes, the practice of wearing: is one of the ascetic rules
of purification (dhutanga).
path and not-path, the knowledge and vision regarding: s.
visuddhi (V).
pathavī-dhātu: 'earth-element'. or 'solid element'. It is cognizable
through the sensations of pressure, touch, cold, heat. pain, etc. - About the
4 elements. s. dhātu,
khandha (I. A.).
pathavī-kasina: 'earth-kasina' (s. kasina).
path-condition: magga-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
path-knowledge, the 4 kinds of: s.
visuddhi (VII).
path-result (fruition): phala.
patibhāga-nimitta: s. nimitta,
kasina, samādhi.
patibhāna-patisambhidā: the 'analytical knowledge of ready wit': s.
patisambhidā.
paticcasamuppāda
patience, or forbearance (khanti): one of the 10 perfections
(pāramī).
patigha
pātihāriya
patikkūla-saññā: s. kāyagatā-sati.
pātimokkha
pātimokkha-samvara-sīla: 'morality consisting in restraint with regard
to the Disciplinary Code' (Pātimokkha, s. prec.). For details, s.
sīla.
patinissaggānupassanā: 'contemplation on abandonment', is one of the
18 kinds of insight (vipassanā).
Further cf. the 16th exercise of anapana-sati.
patipadā
patipadā-ñānadassana-visuddhi: 'purification by knowledge and vision
of the path-progress' forms the 6th stage of purification (visuddhi).
patipannaka: 'path-attainer', is he who had reached one of the 4 super
mundane paths of holiness (s. ariya-puggala).
- (App.)
patipatti: practice, or 'pursuance' of the teaching, as distinguished
from the mere theoretical knowledge of its wording (pariyatti).
patipassaddhi-pahāna: 'overcoming (of defilements) by
tranquillization' (s. pahāna).
patisambhidā
patisandhi
patisankhāna-bala and
bhāvanā-bala
patisankhānupassanā-ñāna: 'knowledge consisting in reflective
contemplation"; is one of the 9 knowledges constituting the 'purification by
knowledge and vision of the path-progress' (patipadā-ñānadassanavisuddhi;
s. visuddhi VI), and one of the 18 chief
kinds of insight (mahāvipassanā;
s. vipassanā).
pativedha
patta-pindik'anga: the 'exercise of the bowl-eater', is one of the 13
ascetic purification-exercises (dhutanga),
consisting in the vow of using only the alms-bowl for eating, and the
rejection of any other vessel.
patti-dāna
penetration
perfections, the 10: pāramī.
perfect one, the: tathāgata.
performance and avoidance:
cāritta-vāritta.
permanency, idea of: s. vipallāsa.
personality: s. sakkāya. For
personality-belief, s. sakkāya ditthi,
ditthi, attā,
satta, puggala,
vipallāsa.
perversions, the 4: vipallāsa.
peta (Sanskrit preta): lit. 'departed
spirit', ghost; s. loka.
petti-visaya: 'ghost realm'; s. loka.
phala
phassa
picked-up rags, wearing robes made from: s.
dhutanga.
pindapātik'anga: The 'practice of going for alms', is one of the 13
ascetic purification-exercises (s. dhutanga).
pīta-kasina: 'yellow-kasina', is one of the kasina-exercises; s.
kasina.
pīti
planes of existence, the 3: s. avacara.
pleasantness, idea of: s. vipallāsa,
subhanimitta.
pondering: s. vīmamsā.
post-nascence: pacchājāta-paccaya, one of the 24 conditions
(paccaya).
postures, the 4 bodily: iriyāpatha.
powers
practice: For theory, practice and realization, s.
pariyatti.
predominance and pre-nascence: adhipati, purejāta, are 2
of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
preparatory concentration (and preparatory image, etc.): s.
samādhi, javana.
prescribed moral rules: paññatti-sīla.
proclivities: s. anusaya.
produced corporeality:
nipphanna-rūpa.
productive (or regenerative) karma; s.
karma.
proficiency (of mental factors and consciousness):
pāguññatā.
progress
progress of the disciple
proximity: anantara, is one of the 24 conditions
(paccaya).
pubbenivāsānussati: 'remembrance of former births', is one of the higher
powers (abhiññā), and a factor of threefold
knowledge (tevijja).
puggala
pūjā
punabbhava
puñña
puññābhisankhāra: 'meritorious karma-formations' of the sensuous and
fine-material sphere; s. sankhāra I.1.
puññā-dhārā
puñña-kiriya-vatthu
pure abodes: suddhāvāsa.
purejāta-paccaya: 'pre-nascence', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
purification, the 7 stages of; s.
visuddhi.
purisindriya: 'Virility'; s. bhāva,
khandha.
purity, the elements of the effort for:
pārisuddhipadhāniyanga.
puthujjana
questions and answers:
pañhā-byākarana.
