Sensation == 受
or Feeling. The Sanskrit word is Vedana. One of the Five Skandhas. See Five Skandhas.
Six Dusts == 六塵
see Six Gunas.
Six Gunas == 六塵
or Six External Bases, or Six Dusts. They are sight, sound, scent/smell, taste, tangibles/touch and dharma/idea. They are the qualities produced by the objects and organs of sense.
Six Paths == 六道
see Six Directions of Reincarnation.
Six Roots == 六根
or Six Sense-organs, see Six Indriyas.
lit ”glad-minded-ness” (su+manas+ya), gladness, joy; identical with ”mentally agreeable feeling” (cetasika^ sukha^ vedana^), belongs to the feeling-group (vedana^-kkhandha, s. khandha II), and is enumerated amongst the 22 faculties (indriya, q.v.). It may or may not be associated with karmically wholesome consciousness (s. Tab. I. 1-4, 9-12, 18-21), with karmically unwholesome consciousness (greedy c. ib. 22-25), and with karmically neutral consciousness (ib. 40, 42-45, 57-60, 66-69, 72-76. 81-84), - Somanassa is not identical with pi^ti (q.v.).
kin~cana (q.v.).
For the 4 Truths of suffering, s. sacca; further s. ti-lakkhana.
”Threefold Refuge”, in which every faithful adherent of the Buddha puts his whole trust, consists in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha (s. prec.).
The Buddha, or Enlightened One, is the teacher who by himself has discovered, realized and proclaimed to the world the law of deliverance. The Dhamma is the law of deliverance. The Sangha is the community of the disciples, who have realized or are striving to realize the law of deliverance.
The 3-fold Refuge in Pa^li, by the uttering of which one may also outwardly profess one”s faith, is still the same as in the Buddha”s time, namely:
Buddham saranam gaccha^mi
Dhammam saranam gaccha^mi
Sangham saranam gaccha^mi
I take my refuge in the Buddha!
I take my refuge in the Dhamma!
I take my refuge in the Sangha!
Literature: The Threefold Refuge by Nyanaponika Thera (WHEEL 76). - Devotion in Buddhism (WHEEL 18). Going for Refuge, by Bhikkhu Bodhi (WHEEL 282/284) - Khp. Tr. pp. 4ff.
the 7: s. dhana (q.v.).
”female adherent”; s. upa^saka.
Contemplation of: vaya^nupassana^, is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassa^na, q.v.).
Yasodhara == 耶蘇陀羅
the wife of Siddhartha Goutama.
he ”Radiant Ones”, are a class of heavenly beings of the fine-material world (rúpa-loka); cf. deva.
”truth-realization”, ...
is the full and direct grasp of the Four Noble Truths by the Stream-winner (Sota^panna; s. ariya-puggala).
In the Com. the term is represented by ”penetration” (pativedha, q.v.). Frequently occurring as dhamma^bhisamaya, ”realization of the doctrine”
Cf. S. XIII (Abhisamaya Samyutta) and Pts.M. (Abhisamaya Katha^).
s. jha^na.
khandha (q.v.).
Almsgiving == 布施
see charity.