BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - W - Y -
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water-element: āpo-dhātu (s. dhātu).
- water-kasina, white-k., wind-k.: s. kasina.
- weighty karma: garuka-kamma (s. karma).
- wheel of existence: s. samsāra,
vatta.
- wheel of the law: dhamma-cakka.
- will: cetanā.
- wind-element: vāyo-dhātu (s. dhātu).
- wisdom: paññā.
- woeful courses (of existence): duggati (s.
gati).
- world, the 3-fold: loka.
- worldling: puthujjana.
- worldly: lokiya.
- worldly conditions, the 8:
loka-dhamma.
- world-period, formation, dissolution: s.
kappa.
- wrongnesses, the 10: micchatta.
- wrong path: micchā-magga.
- wrong understanding (or view), w. thought, w. speech; etc: s.
micchā-magga.
Y -
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yakkha: in popular belief, a kind of ghost, goblin
or ogre. See Yakkha.
- yāma-deva: are a kind of heavenly beings of the sensuous world; s.
deva.
- yamaka-pātihāriya
- yathā-bhūta-ñāna-dassana: 'the knowledge and vision according to
reality', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā).
- yathākammūpaga-ñāna: 'knowledge of rebirth according to one's
actions'; s. abhiññā (4).
- yathāsanthatik'anga: 'the practice of being satisfied with whatever
dwelling', is one of the ascetical means of purification; s.
dhutanga
(12).
- yoga: 'yokes, bonds', is another name for the 4
cankers (āsava) .
- yogāvacara = yogi: 'one devoted to mental training,' is in Vis.M. the
usual name for the disciple cultivating mental concentration (App.).
- yokes: yoga, q.v.
- yoni: 'modes of generation.' There are 4 generation
from the egg, from the mother's womb, from moisture, and spontaneous rebirth
(opapātika) in heaven, hell, etc.
Explained in M.12.
- yoniso manasikāra: 'thorough attention' or wise consideration': s.
manasikāra.
- youth-infatuation: s. mada.
- yuganaddha: s.
samatha-vipassanā, last paragraph.
