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a Contemplative's Pali to English Dictionary
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(updated 11-02-05 with 16 Pali terms & 23 English terms defined)
obduracies, the 5 mental: ceto-khila (q.v.).
obhása: 'effulgence of light', aura, appearing at times during absorption (jhaná). See (jhaná-nimitta).
object: árammana (q.v.); as condition s. paccaya (2).
obstacles, the 10 o. of meditation: palibodha (q.v.); for the 5 mental obstacles, or hindrances, s. nívarana.
Ocean: jalanidhi. f., samudda. m.
Odana: m. rice, cooked rice.
odáta-kasina: 'white-kasina-exercise'; s. kasina.
Offers: puujeti.
ogha: 'floods', is a name for the 4 cankers (ásava, q.v.).
ojá: 'nutriment', 'essence' (synonym of áhára, q.v.), is one of those 8 minimal constituent parts, or qualities, of all corporeality, to wit: the solid, liquid, heat, motion; color, odor, taste and nutriment. This is the 'octad with nutriment as the eighth (factor)' (ojatthamaka-kalápa), also called the 'pure eightfold unit' (suddhatthaka-kalápa), being the most primitive material combination. For further details, s. rúpa-kalápa.
okkanti: 'conception', lit. 'descent', designates the appearance of the embryo in the mother's womb, i.e. the beginning of the birth process (játi, q.v.). "Through the concurrence of 3 circumstances arises the embryo. When father and mother have united, ... and the mother has her time, and the 'genius' (metaphorically for the karma energy) is ready; under these 3 circumstances does the embryo appear" (M. 38).
Old: vuddha. adj.
old age: jará (q.v.), is one of the 3 divine messengers (s. devadúta).
olfactory organ: s. áyatana.
omána: 'inferiority-conceit'; s. mána.
Once: ekakkhattu.m.
once-eater, the practice of the: s. dhutanga.
One: eka.
one-group existence: eka-vokára-bhava (q.v.).
one-pointedness of mind (citt'ekaggatá): a name for mental concentration (sati, q.v.), (see D 22, M 10, 118, 119).
Only: eva. ind.
opapátika: lit. 'accidental' (from upapáta, accident; and related to upapatti, 'spontaneously born', i.e. born without the instrumentality of parents. This applies to all heavenly and infernal beings. "After the disappearing of the 5 lower fetters (samyojana, q.v.), he (the Anágámi) appears in a spiritual world (opapátika)...."
open air, practice of living in the: s. dhutanga.
opposite: 'overcoming by the opposite,' s. pahána.
Or: vá. ind.
orambhágiya-samyojana: the 'lower fetters', i.e. the first 5 fetters that bind one to lower existence; s. samyojana.
origination, dependent: paticcasamuppáda (q.v.).
origination of corporeality: s. samutthána.
Osadha: m. medicine.
Osadhasálá: f. dispensary.
Other: apara. adj.
ottappa: 'moral dread'; s. hiri-ottappa.
Our: amháka.m. pro.
Ováda: m. advice.
Over: upari. pre.
overcoming, the 5 kinds of: s. pahána. - Full understanding consisting in o.; s. pariññá - the effort to overcome, s. padhána. - Overcoming doubt, the purification by; s. visuddhi, abhibhavati, IV.
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