BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - K -

• kabalinkārāhāra: lit. 'food formed into balls', i.e. food formed into mouthfuls for eating (according to Indian custom); it denotes 'material food' and belongs, together with the three mental nutriments, to the group of four nutriments (s. āhāra).
• kalāpa
• kalpa: (Skr) = kappa).
• kalyāna-mitta
• kāma
• kāma-bhava: 'sensuous existence'; s. bhava.
• kāma-cchanda: 'sensuous desire', s. nīvarana, chanda.
• kāma-guna: s. kāma.
• kāma-loka: 'sensuous world', s. loka.
• kāma-rāga: 'sensuous lust', is one of the 10 fetters (samyojana).
• kāmāsava: s: āsava.
• kāma-sukh'allikānuyoga: 'being addicted to sensual pleasures', is one of the 2 extremes to be avoided by the monk; s. majjhima-patipadā.
• kāma-tanhā: 'sensuous craving'; s. tanhā.
• kāmāvacara: 'sensuous sphere'; s. avacara.
• kāmesu-micchācāra
• kamma: (wholesome or unwholesome) action; s. karma.
• kamma-bhava: s. bhava, paticcasamuppāda.
• kammaja-rūpa: 'karma-produced corporeality'; s. samutthāna.
• kammaññatā
• kammanta, sammā-: 'right action'; s. magga.
• kamma-paccaya: 'karma as condition'; s. paccaya (13).
• kamma-patha
• kamma-samutthāna-rūpa: 'corporeality produced through karma'; s. samutthāna.
• kammatthāna: lit. 'working-ground' (i.e. for meditation), is the term in the Com. for 'subjects of meditation'; s. bhāvanā.
• kamma-vatta: 'karma-round'; s. vatta.
• kammāyūhana: s. āyūhana.
• kāmupādāna: 'sensuous clinging', is one of the 4 kinds of clinging (upādāna).
• kankhā
• kankhā-vitarana-visuddhi: 'purification by overcoming doubt', is the 4th of the 7 stages of purification (visuddhi).
• kappa
• karma (Sanskrit), Pāli: kamma
• karma-accumulation: āyūhana.
• karma-formations
• karma-process: s. bhava, paticcasamuppāda.
• karma-produced corporeality: s. samutthāna.
• karma-result: vipāka.
• karma-round: kamma vatta (s. vatta).
• karmically acquired corporeality: upādinnarūpa.
• karmically wholesome, unwholesome, neutral: kusala, akusala, avyākata; cf. Tab.I.
• karunā: 'compassion', is one of the 4 sublime abodes (brahma-vihāra).
• kasina
• katattā-kamma: 'stored-up karma'; s. karma.
• kāya
• kāya-gatā-sati
• kāya-kamma: 'bodily action'; s. karma, kammapatha.
• kāya-kammaññatā, k.-lahutā, k.-mudutā, k.-pāguññatā, k.-passaddhi, k.-ujukatā; s. Tab.II. For passaddhi, s. further bojjhanga.
• kāya-lahutā: agility or lightness of mental factors (s. lahutā).
• kāyānupassanā: 'contemplation of the body', is one of the 4 foundations of mindfulness; s. satipatthāna.
• kāya-passaddhi: tranquillity of mental factors, s. bojjhanga.
• kāya-sakkhi
• kāya-viññatti: s. viññatti.
• khalu-pacchā-bhattik'anga: s. dhutanga.
• khana: 'moment'; s. citta-kkhana.
• khandha
• khandha-parinibbāna: s. nibbāna.
• khandha-santāna: s. santāna.
• khanti: 'patience', forbearance', is one of the 10 perfections (pāramī).
• khayānupassanā: 'contemplation of dissolution', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (s. vipassanā).
• khidda-padosikā devā
• khīnāsava: 'the one in whom all cankers are destroyed' is a name for the Arahat, or Holy One; s. āsava.
• kicca 'function'. Regarding the 14 functions of consciousness, s. viññāna-kicca.
• kilesa
• kilesa-kāma: 'sensuality considered as defilement' (s. kilesa) might well be called 'subjective sensuality', in contradistinction to 'objective sensuality' (vatthu-kāma), i.e. the sensuous objects (kāma-guna). Cf. kāma.
• kilesa-parinibbāna: s. nibbāna (1).
• killing: s. karma, kammapatha, sikkhāpada.
• kiñcana
• kiriya (or kriya)-citta
• knowledge: cf. paññā, ñāna, vijjā, vipassanā, abhiññā.
• kolankola: 'passing from one noble family to another', is the name for one of the 3 kinds of Sotāpanna.
• kriya-citta = kiriya.
• kukkucca
• kuppa-dhamma
• kusala
• kusala-kammapatha: 'wholesome course of action'; s. kammapatha.
• kusala-mūla
• kusala-vipāka: the (mental) 'karma-result of wholesome karma' (s. karma).