BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - S -

• sabba-loke anabhirati-saññā
• sabbūpadhi-patinissagga: s. upadhi.
• sacca
• saccakiriyā: 'act of truth'
• sacca-ñāna
• saccānulomika-ñāna: anuloma-ñāna, puthujjana.
• sacchikaranīyā dhammā
• saddhā
• saddhānusāri and saddhā-vimutta: the 'faith-devoted and the 'faith-liberated', are two of the 7 kinds of noble disciples (s. ariya-puggala, B.).
• sagga: 'heaven'; s. deva (heavenly beings).
• sahajāta-paccaya: 'co-nascence', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• sahetuka-citta: s. hetu.
• sakadāgāmī: the 'Once-returner': s. ariya-puggala, A.
• sakka: the 'King of Gods' (devānam-inda), is the lord over the celestial beings in the heaven of the Thirty-Three' (tāvatimsa, s. deva).
• sakkāya
• sakkāya-ditthi
• salāyatana: the '6 bases' (of mental activity); s. āyatana, paticcasamuppāda.
• samādhi
• samādhi-parikkhāra: 'means, or requisites of concentration', are the 4 foundations of mindfulness (satipatthāna). See M.44.
• samādhi-samāpatti-kusalatā, -thiti-kusalatā, -utthānakusalatā: skilfulness in entering into concentration, in remaining in it, and in rising from it. Cf. S.XXXIV.11ff.
• samādhi-sambojjhanga: 'concentration as factor of enlightenment' (s. bojjhanga).
• samādhi-vipphārā iddhi: the 'power of penetrating concentration', is one of the magical faculties (iddhi).
• samanantara-paccaya: 'contiguity', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• sāmañña-phala
• samāpatti
• sama-sīsī
• samatha
• samatha-vipassanā
• samatha-yānika: 'one who takes tranquillity as his vehicle'. This is a name for a person who not only has reached insight but also one or the other of the absorptions, to distinguish him from one 'who practises only insight' (sukkha-vipassaka).
• sambodhi = bodhi.
• sambojjhanga = bojjhanga.
• sammā-ditthi, -sankappa, -vaca, etc: see magga.
• sammā-magga: see micchā-magga.
• sammā-ppadhāna: 'right exertion', is identical with the 6th link of the 8-fold path (s. magga, padhāna).
• sammā-sambodhi
• sammasana
• sammatta: the 'state of rightness', are the 8 links of the 8-fold Path (D. 33). Cf. micchātta.
• sammuti-sacca: 'conventional truth', is identical with vohāra-sacca (s. paramattha-sacca).
• sampadā
• sampajañña
• sampaticchana-citta
• sampayutta-paccaya: 'condition of association', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• samphassa = phassa.
• samsāra
• samseva
• samuccheda-pahāna
• samudaya-sacca: 'truth of the origin', i.e. the origin of suffering, is the 2nd of the 4 Noble Truths (sacca).
• samutthāna
• samvara-padhāna: 'effort to avoid'; s. padhāna.
• samvara-sīla: 'indriya-s.'; s. sīla.
• samvara-suddhi: 'purity of control', is another name for morality consisting of restraint of the senses (indriya-samvara-sīla; s. sīla).
• samvatta-kappa: s. kappa.
• samvega-vatthu
• samvejanīya-tthāna
• samyojana
• sañcetanā = cetanā.
• sangaha-vatthu: the 4 'ways of showing favour' are liberality, kindly speech, beneficial actions, impartiality (A.IV.32; A.VIII.24).
• sangha
• sankappa: 'thought', is a synonym of vitakka. For sammā-s., or right thought, s. magga (2).
• sankhāra
• sankhārupekkhā-ñāna
• sankhata: the 'formed', i.e. anything originated or conditioned, comprises all phenomena of existence. Cf. sankhāra I, 4; asankhata.
• sankhitta citta: in the Satipatthāna Sutta, signifies the 'contracted' or 'cramped' mind, not the concentrated (samāhita) mind, as often translated by Western authors. Cf. satipatthāna (3).
• saññā
• saññā-vedayita-nirodha = nirodha-samāpatti.
• saññā-vipallāsa: 'perversion of perception' (s. vipallāsa).
• saññojana = samyojana.
• santāna
• santīrana-citta: 'investigating consciousness', is one of the stages in the cognitive series. For the 14 functions of consciousness. s. viññānakicca.
• santutthitā: 'contentedness'; s. ariya-vamsa.
• sapadānik'anga: s. dhutanga.
• sappatigha-rūpa: 'corporeality reacting to sense stimuli', refers to the 5 sense-organs (āyatana). - Cf. Vibh. II (s. Guide II, Chap. II) and Vis.M. XIV; further s. patigha 2.
• sarana: s. ti-sarana.
• sāsana
• sasankhāra-parinibbāyī: 'one who reaches Nibbāna with exertion', is a name of one of the 5 kinds of Non-returners (anāgāmī).
• sasankhārika-citta
• sassata-ditthi (-vāda)
• sati
• satipatthāna
• sati-sambojjhanga: 'mindfulness as factor of enlightenment' s. bojjhanga.
• sati-sampajañña: 'mindfulness and clarity of consciousness, s. sampajañña.
• satta
• sattakkhattu-parama: 'one with only 7 further rebirths at the utmost', is one of the 3 kinds of Stream-winners (sotāpanna).
• sattāvāsa, nava
• sa-upādisesa-nibbāna: s. nibbāna, upādi.
• sāvaka: 'hearer', i.e. 'disciple', refers, in a restricted sense (then mostly ariya-sāvaka, 'noble disciple'), only to the 8 kinds of noble disciples (ariya-puggala).
• sāvaka-bodhi: 'enlightenment of the disciple', designates the holiness of the disciple, as distinguished from the holiness of the Pacceka-Buddha and the Sammā-sambuddha.
• sceptical doubt: vicikicchā. Cf. kankhā.
• scruples: kukkucca.
• sekha
• self: attā.
• self-annihilation, craving for: vibhava-tanhā (s. tanhā).
• self-confidence: vesārajja.
• self-mortification: atta-kilamatha.
• senāsana
• sense-organs and objects: s. āyatana, dhātu.
• sense-stimuli, corporeality responding to: s. āyatana.
• sensitive corporeality: pasāda-rūpa.
• sensuality (subj. & obj.): kāma.
• sensuous clinging: kāmūpādāna; s. upādāna.
• sensuous craving: kāma-tanhā (-rāga), is one of the 10 fetters (samyojana), and one of the 3 kinds of craving (tanhā).
• sensuous sphere (-world): s. avacara, loka.
• serenity: s. samatha.
• seven rebirths at the utmost: s. sotāpanna.
• sex: s. bhāva.
• sexual intercourse, unlawful: s. kāmesu micchācāra.
• shame: hiri.
• shamelessness: ahirika.
• signless (animitta): s. ceto-vimutti, vimokkha, vipassanā.
• sikkhā
• sikkhāpada
• sīla
• sīlabbata-parāmāsa and -upādāna
• sīla-samādhi-paññā: s. sikkhā, magga.
• silent buddha: pacceka-buddha.
• sitting position, sleeping in: s. dhutanga.
• sīvathikā
• skilful: kusala.
• sloth: middha, s. nīvarana.
• sobhana
• somanassa
• somanassūpavicāra: 'indulging in gladness'; s. mano-pavicāra.
• something: kiñcana.
• sotāpanna
• sotāpannassa angāni
• sotāpatti: 'Stream-entry'; s. sotāpanna; s. -magga, -phala, 'path and fruition of Stream-entry'; s. ariyapuggala.
• sotāpattiyanga
• space: s. ākāsa.
• spheres (of existence): avacara. - The 4 immaterial spheres (āyatana): s. jhāna (5-8).
• spiritual faculties: s. indriya (15-19), indriya-samatta, bala.
• spontaneously born beings: opapātika.
• stains, the 3: mala.
• standstill (of morality etc.): s. hāna-bhāgiya-sīla. S. of existence: vivatta.
• stinginess: macchariya; cf. Tab. II.
• stored-up karma: katattā; s. karma.
• stream-entry: s. sotāpanna, ariya-puggala.
• streams of merit: puññadhārā.
• stream-winner: s. sotāpanna, ariya-puggala.
• stupid-natured: s. carita.
• subconscious stream (of existence): bhavanga-sota.
• subha-kinha (or-kinna): s. deva II.
• subha-nimitta
• subha-saññā, -citta, -ditthi: 'the perception (consciousness or view) of beauty (or purity)' in what is actually devoid of it (asubhe subha-saññā), is one of the 4 perversions (vipallāsa).
• sublime abodes (or States): brahma-vihāra.
• substrata of existence: upadhi.
• sucarita
• successive births, karma ripening in: s. karma.
• suchness: tathatā.
• sudassa, sudassī: s. foll.
• suddhāvāsa
• suddha-vipassanā-yānika = sukkha-vipassaka.
• suffering: For the 4 Truths of suffering, s. sacca; further s. ti-lakkhana.
• sugati: 'happy course of existence'; s. gati.
• sukha
• sukha-saññā, -citta, -ditthi: 'the perception (consciousness or view) of happiness' in what is actually suffering (dukkhe sukha-saññā), i.e. any form of existence, it is one of the perversions (vipallāsa).
• sukkha-vipassaka
• suñña (adj.), suññatā (noun)
• suññatānupassanā: 'contemplation of emptiness' (s. prec.), is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā). Cf. Vis.M. XXI.
• suññatā-vimokkha: 'emptiness-deliverance'; s. vimokkha.
• superiority-conceit: s. māna.
• supermundane: lokuttara; -faculties, s. indriya (20-22).
• supernormal: mahaggata; -knowledges, s. abhiññā.
• support, decisive support: (nissaya, upanissaya) are two of the 24 conditions (s. paccaya).
• supportive karma: upatthambhaka-kamma; s. karma.
• suppressive karma: upapīlaka-kamma; s. karma.
• surāmeraya-majja-ppamādatthānā veramanī sikkhāpadam samādiyāmi: "I take upon myself the vow to abstain from taking intoxicants and drugs such as wine, liquor, etc. since they lead to moral carelessness." This is the wording of the last of the 5 moral rules (s. sikkhāpada) binding on all Buddhists .
• susānik'anga: s. dhutanga.
• suta-mayā paññā: 'knowledge based on learning'; s. paññā.