Stupa == 塔
It refers to a place where the Buddha”s true body resides.
kinha (or-kinna): s. deva, II.
Sudra == 首陀羅
the lowest of the four Indian Castes at the time of Shakyamuni. They were peasants, slaves and serfs.
pleasant, happy; happiness, pleasure, joy, bliss. It is one of the three feelings (s. vedana^) and may be either bodily or mental. The texts distinguish between the happiness of the senses and the h. of renunciation (A. II), worldly (carnal; sa^misa) and unworldly (non-carnal; nira^misa) happiness (M. 10). See A. II, ch. VIII. - Happiness is an indispensable condition for attaining concentration of mind (sama^dhi, q.v.), and therefore it is one of the 5 factors (or constituents) of the 1st absorption (jha^nanga; s. jha^na) and is present up to the 3rd absorption inclusively."The mind of the happy one has concentration as its fruit and reward" (A.X,1). - "In him who is filled with happiness, right concentration has found a foundation" (A.X,3).
Sutra == 經
It is a "path" necessarily passed through in the cultivation of the Way.
”mastery”. Vis.M. IV speaks of 5 kinds of m., which anyone who wishes to develop the absorptions (jha^na, q.v.) should acquire first of all, with regard to the 1st absorption, namely: mastery in adverting to it (a^vajjana-vasi^), in entering it (sama^pajjana-vasi^), in determining it (adhittha^na-vasi^), in rising therefrom (vuttha^na-vasi^), in retrospection (paccavekkhana-vasi^). - (App.).
"If wherever, whenever, and for whatever duration desired, one enters the 1st absorption, and at one”s entering it, no slowness is experienced, this is called mastery in entering the absorption, etc. In an analogous way, the 4 remaining kinds are to be explained" (Vis.M. IV, 131f; XXIII, 27ff.).
The 5 kinds of vasi^ are probably found first in the Vis.M.
Yaksa == 夜叉
The demons in the lower realm, like the Ghost Realm. They are evil, malignant and violent. They live on earth or in air.
yoga, q.v.
(lit: influxes), ”cankers”, taints, corruption”s, intoxicant biases. There is a list of four (as in D. 16, Pts.M., Vibh.): the canker of sense-desire (ka^ma^sava), of (desiring eternal) existence (bhava^sava), of (wrong) views (dittha^sava), and of ignorance (avijja^sava). A list of three, omitting the canker of views, is possibly older and is more frequent in the Suttas, e.g. in M. 2, M. 9, D. 33; A. III, 59, 67; A. VI, 63. - In Vibh. (Khuddakavatthu Vibh.) both the 3-fold and 4-fold division are mentioned. The fourfold division also occurs under the name of ”floods” (ogha) and ”yokes” (yoga).
Through the path of Stream-Entry, the canker of views is destroyed; through the path of Non-Returning, the canker of sense-desire; through the path of Arahatship, the cankers of existence and ignorance. M. 2 shows how to overcome the cankers, namely, through insight, sense-control, avoidance, wise use of the necessities of life, etc. For a commentarial exposition, see Atthasa^lini Tr. I, p. 63f: II, pp. 475ff.
Khi^na^sava, ”one whose cankers are destroyed”, or ”one who is canker-free”, is a name for the Arahat or Holy One. The state of Arahatship is frequently called a^savakkhaya, ”the destruction of the cankers”. Suttas concluding with the attainment of Arahatship by the listeners, often end with the words: "During this utterance, the hearts of the Bhikkhus were freed from the cankers through clinging no more" (anupa^da^ya a^savehi citta^ni vimuccimsú”ti).
viha^ra (q.v.). The 4 Divine a.: brahma-viha^ra (q.v.) The 9 a. of beings: satta^va^sa (q.v.).
Moment of: s. javana.
(lit.: ”not-learner”; s. sekha), a disciple ”perfected in training”, one beyond training, an adept. This is a name for the Arahat, the Holy One (s. ariya-puggala), since he has reached the perfection in higher moral training, higher mind training and higher wisdom training (s. sikkha^) and needs no longer to train himself therein.
The 9 worlds of: satta^va^sa (q.v.).
Bhiksu == 比丘
A monk, who has left home, been fully ordained, and depends on alms for a living.
s. a^sava.
of action (wholesome or unwholesome): kammapatha (q.v.).
the teaching of the: Therava^da (q.v.).