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(updated 11-02-05 with 0 Pali terms & 6 English terms defined)
Quality: va.n.na. m.
Quarter: disá. f.
Queen: mahesí. f.
Question: pañha. m.
questions and answers: pañhá-byákarana (q.v.).
Quickly: khippa.m. ind.
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(updated 11-02-05 with 26 Pali terms & 65 English terms defined)
radiant gods: ábhassara; cf. deva.
rága: 'lust', 'greed', is a synonym of lobha (s. múla), tanhá (q.v.) and abhijjhá (s. kammapatha). For káma-, rúpa-, arúpa-rága, s. samyojana.
rága-carita: the 'greedy-natured'; s. carita.
Raiment: vattha. n.
Rain: vassa. m., n.
Rája: m. king.
Raja: n. dust.
Rajatamaya: made of silver.
Rájiní: f. queen.
Rakkhati: protects.
rapture: bliss, píti (q.v.); further s. bojjhanga.
Ratha: m. cart, chariot.
Rathakára: charioteer.
Rati: f. attachment.
Ratta: adj. Red.
Raññha: n. country, kingdom, realm.
Ratti: f. night.
reaction, sense-: s. patigha.
ready-wit: perspicuity s. patisambhidá.
reality: s. paramattha. - Vision and knowledge according to r.- s. vipassaná 15.
realization: For theory, practice and r., s. pariyatti.
Realm: ra.t.tha. n.
rebirth: s. patisandhi, paticcasamuppáda (3,10), karma, punabbhava.
Receives: labhati. ga.nháti.
receptive consciousness: sampaticchana-citta (s. viññánakicca).
Recollection: sati. f.
recollectons: s. anussati.
Red: ratta.
adj.
red-kasina exercise: s. kasina.
reflective contemplation: patisankhánupassaná (s. vipassaná, 17).
reflection, power of: patisankhána-bala (q.v.).
reflex-perceptions: s. patigha (2a).
Refuge: sara.na. n. nátha.
m.
refuge-formula, the 3-fold: ti-sarana (q.v.).
regenerating process: upapatti-bhava (s. bhava).
regenerative karma: janaka-kamma (s. karma).
registering consciousness: tadárammana-citta (s. viññána-kicca).
reincarnation: rebirth, s. patisandhi, paticcasamuppáda (3,10), karma, punabbhava.
Relative: :áti.
m., bandhu. m.
Relatives (having): bandhumantu. m.
relative truth: cf. puggala, paramattha-sacca, desaná, anattá, satta.
Release: mutti. f.
Remaining: sesa. m.
remembrance, of former existences: s. abhiññá 4.
remorse: kukkucca (q.v.).
Removes: níharati, avaharati.
repetition: ásevana-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.).
repression, overcoming by: vikkhambhana-pahána (s. pahána).
repugnance: patigha (q.v.).
resistance-perceptions: s. patigha (2a).
Resites: bha.nati.
restlessness: uddhacca (q.v.).
Retreats: pa.tikkamati.
retrospective knowledge: paccavekkhana-ñána (q.v.).
Reverend Sir: bhante.
Reverse: pa.tiloma.
reversible merit: patti-dána (q.v.).
Reward: pa.n.nákára. m.
right absorption or meditation: 8th N8P, samma-samadhi (jhana).
right action: 4th N8P, samma-kammanta
right concentration (mindfulness) 7th N8P, samma-sati
right effort: 6th N8P, samma-vayam
right livelihood: 5th N8P, samma-ajiva
right meditation or absorption: 8th N8P, samma-samadhi (jhana).
right mindfulness (concentration) 7th N8P, samma-sati
right speech: 3rd N8P, samma-vaca
right thought: 2nd N8P, samma-sankappa
right understanding (or r. view), 1st N8P: samma-ditthi, s. magga.
Rice: odana. m., n.
rise and fall (of phenomena): the knowledge consisting in the contemplation of r. and f., s. visuddhi VI, 1.
River: ga~ngá. f., nadí. f.
Road: path, way, magga. m.
Rock: pabbata. m., n.
Roga: m. disease.
round of rebirth: s. vatta (2), samsára. - The 3-fold r. of r. (s. vatta, 1).
Rukkha: m. tree.
rukkha mulik'anga: s. dhutanga.
rules and ritual, clinging to mere: (s. samyojana, upádána).
ruminating-natured: vitakka-carita (s. carita).
Runs: dhávati.
Rundhati: (rudhi)
obstructs.
rúpa: (1) soma, anatomical, physiology, body, material nature, corporeality (s. khandha 1); (2) visual object (s. áyatana); (3) fine-material (s. avacara, jhána).
rúpa-jjhána: Material absorption s. jhána.
rúpa-kalápa: 'material group', 'corporeal group', material unit, designates a combination of several physical phenomena constituting a temporary unity. Thus, for instance, the so-called 'dead matter' forms the most primitive group, consisting only of 8 physical phenomena, called the 'pure eightfold unit' or 'octad' (suddhatthakakalápa), to wit: the 4 elements (the solid, fluid, heat, motion); color, smell, taste, nutriment (pathaví, ápo, tejo, váyo; vanna, gandha, rasa, ojá). In Vis.M., and elsewhere, it is also called ojatthamaka-kalápa, 'the octad with nutriment as the 8th factor'.
The simplest form of living matter is the '9-fold vitality unit' or 'life-ennead' (jívita-navaka-kalápa), formed by adding 'vitality' to the octad. Seven decades, or units of ten (dasaka-kalápa), are formed by adding to the 9-fold unit one of the following corporeal phenomena: heart (physical seat of mind), sex, eye, ear, nose, tongue or body. - See Vis.M. XVIII, 4; Compendium of Buddhist Philosophy (PTS), p. 164, 250; Atthasálini Tr., II, 413f.
rúpa-káya: 'physical body', 'body-group', as distinguished from náma-káya, 'mind-group' (q.v.). See náma-rúpa.
rúpa-kkhandha: 'soma', 'corporeality group'; s. khandha (1).
rúpa loka: material world'; s. loka.
rúpárammana: 'visual object', designates the external visual physical phenomenon ('light wave') that forms the cognitive base. Cf. áyatana (2).
rúpa-rúpa: physical body, soma = nipphanna-rúpa (q.v.).
rúpávacara: s. avacara.
rúpáyatana: s. áyatana (2).
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