BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - B -

• bahula-kamma: 'habitual karma': s. karma.
• bala
• balance of mental faculties: indriya samatta.
• bases: The 12 of the perceptual process: āyatana.
• beautiful: sobhana.
• beauty, deliverance through the perception of: cf. vimokkha (II. 3) To hold for beautiful or pure (subha) what is impure (asubha), is one of the 4 perversions (s. vipallāsa).
• behaviour, morality consisting in good: abhisamācārikasīla.
• being, living: satta; further s. puggala. - Belief in eternal personality: bhava-ditthi (s. ditthi), sassata-ditthi.
• beings, The 9 worlds of: sattāvāsa.
• belief, blind: s. indriya-samatta.
• bhangānupassanā-ñāna: 'knowledge consisting in contemplation of dissolution' (of all forms of existence), is one kind of insight: s. visuddhi (VI, 2).
• bhava
• bhāva
• bhava-ditthi: 'belief in being' (eternal personality); s. sassataditthi, ditthi.
• bhāvanā
• bhāvanā-bala: s. patisankhāna-bala.
• bhāvanā-maya-paññā: wisdom based on mental development'; s. paññā
• bhavanga-citta: see bhavanga-sota
• bhavanga-santāna: 'continuity of subconsciousness'; s. santāna
• bhavanga-sota and bhavanga-citta
• bhava-tanhā: 'craving for (eternal) existence'; s. tanhā.
• bhavāsava: 'canker of existence'; s. āsava.
• bhayatupatthāna-ñāna
• bhikkhu
• bhojane mattaññutā
• biases: s. āsava.
• birth process: upapatti-bhava: s. bhava. Further s. patisandhi, jāti.
• bodhi
• bodhipakkhiya-dhammā
• Bodhisatta
• bodily action (wholesome or unwholesome); s. karma, karma formations - Right b.a. = sammā-kammanta; s. magga.
• bodily postures, the 4: iriyā-patha.
• body: kāya. Contemplation on the b. is one of the 4 satipatthāna.
• body-witness: kāya-sakkhi.
• bojjhanga
• bondages, mental: cetaso vinibandha.
• bonds, the 4: yoga.
• both-ways liberated, s. ubhato-bhāga-vimutta, ariyapuggala B. 4.
• boundless consciousness (and b. space), Sphere of: s. jhāna 5, 6.
• brahma-cariya
• brahma-kāyika-deva
• brahma-loka
• brahma-vihāra
• breathing, mindfulness of in-and-out-breathing ānāpānasati.
• Buddha: s. sammā-sambodhi.
• buddhānussati: 'recollection of the Enlightened One'; s. anussati.
• Buddha-sāsana: s. sāsana.