BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - L -

• lahutā:
• lakkhana: 'characteristics'. For the 3 ch. of existence, s. ti-lakkhana.
• law: dhamma.
• learning, wisdom based on: s. paññā.
• liberality: dāna, cāga.
• liberation: s. vimokkha.
• life-infatuation: s. mada.
• light, perception of: s. āloka-saññā.
• light-kasina: s. kasina.
• lightness (of corporeality, mental factors and consciousness): lahutā.
• loathsomeness (of the body): s. asubha, sivathikā, kāyagatāsati.
• lobha: 'greed', is one of the 3 unwholesome roots (mūla) and a synonym of rāga and tanhā.
• lobha-carita: 'greedy-natured', s. carita.
• lofty consciousness: s. sobhana.
• lohita-kasina: 'red-kasina', s. kasina.
• loka
• loka-dhamma: 'worldly conditions'. "Eight things are called worldly conditions, since they arise in connection with worldly life, namely: gain and loss, honour and dishonour, happiness and misery, praise and blame" (Vis.M. XXII). Cf. also A.VIII.5.
• lokiya
• lokuttara
• loving-kindness: mettā; s. brahmavihāra.
• lower fetters, the 5: s. samyojana.
• lower worlds, the 4: apāya.
• low speech: tiracchāna-kathā.
• lust: s. rāga.