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Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Action,. In the specifically Buddhist sen … ‘Action,. In the specifically Buddhist sense, it primarily means a morally skillful or unskilful action which determines specifically the manner of future existence of the doer. It is divisible as mano-karma, kāya-karma and vāk-karma. The latter two can induce avijñapti-karma. Karma can also be disinguished asindividual and collective karma-s, of which the fruits of the latter are not regarded as vipāka,but adhipati-phala-s.t; fruits of the latter are not regarded as vipāka,but adhipati-phala-s.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Aspiration-free’,(the mind) not being bent on anything. It is one of three vimokṣa-mukha-s.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Bad behaviour’,immorality, transgression of precepts.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Beyond the senses’,supra-sensuous.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Born of retribution’. One of the doctrinal perspectives in Abhidharma analysis: dharma-s are divisible as those which are retribution-born (e.g., eye) and those which are not (e.g. sound).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Brahma-faring’,the spiritual life; a life of celibacy.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Breathing out’,inspirational verses said to be uttered spontaneously by the Buddha, one of the dvādaśāṅga-dharma-pravacana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Cause','reason' 1.There are six causes: kāraṇa-hetu, sabhāga-hetu ,sarvatraga-hetu, sahabhū-hetu,samprayuktaka-hetu, vipāka-hetu. 2. A set of five causes: janana-hetu, niśraya-hetu ,pratiṣṭhā-hetu, upastambha-hetu), upabṛṃhaṇa-hetu.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Cessation ’.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Characteristic of the conditioned’,. There are four of them, of the nature of viprayukta-saṃsāra:jāti, sthiti,jarā, anityatā/vyaya. Together, they render a conditioned dharma momentary (ksanika).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Characteristic of the existent,. What is existent is what can serve as an object for generating a cognition (buddhi))
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Collective singing/rehearsal'; often rendered as ‘Council/Congregation’ (of the Saṅgha, to discuss and ascertain the Buddha’s teachings).)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Completion’; the higher ordination for one who has joined the Saṅgha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Comprising eight substances’. The Vaibhāṣikas teach that the minimal molecule that can come into existence in the kāma-dhātu is an octad comprising eight dravya-s.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Concentrated stage’,the stage of concentration.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Conditionings [in the present existence] have avidyā as their [causal] condition.’)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Corporeal tie’,a kleśa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Designation/teaching on cause’, name of ā chapter in the Prajñapti-śāstra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Designation/teaching,on karma’,name of a chapter in the Prajnapti-śāstra.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Deterioration-deterioration’,one of the four anulakṣaṇa-s. Its function is to cause the deterioration of jarā.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Development’, one of the dvādaśāṅga-dharma-pravacana. —►vaitulya.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Dharma-s to be known’;i.e., objects of knowledge.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Difference in mode of existence/being’; Dharmatrāta’s explanation on temporality: A dharma is said to be future, present or past according to its mode of existence.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Difference in state’;Vasumitra’s explanation on temporality: A dharma in a given temporal state is termed future, present or past accordingly.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Disappearance-disappearance’. Same as anityatā-anityatā. —►anulakṣaṇa.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Disjunction (from a defilement)')

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Doctrine-pursuant’• A practitioner who relies primarily on the understanding of the Doctrine for spiritual progress.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Duration-duration’,one of the four anulakṣaṇa-s. Its function is to cause the momentary duration of sthiti. —► anulakṣaṇa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Dwelling of happiness’.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Emanation fruit’. This is the fruit for the sabhāga-hetu.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Existence’,‘becoming’.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Faith-pursuant. A practitioner who primarily relies on faith for spiritual progress.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Five fetters pertaining to the lower portion’,i.e., to the kāma-dhātu. They comprise: satkāya-dṛṣṭi, śīla-vrata-parāmarśa, vicikitsā. kāmacchanda and vyāpāda.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Five hindrances’ to a successful meditation: 1. kāmacchanda, 2. vyāpāda, 3. styāna-middha, 4. auddhatya-kaukṛtya, 5. vicikitsā.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Four-cornered’ (alternative), tetralemma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Fruit of disjunction’;i.e. pratisamkhyā-n … ‘Fruit of disjunction’;i.e. pratisamkhyā-nirodha. This is called a fruit only expediently: An unconditioned dharma transcends the cause-effect process completely; properly speaking, one can only say that the nirodha is acquired (prāpta) by means of the path. I.e., the path induces the arising of the prāpti of the nirodha for the practitioner.t;br>arising of the prāpti of the nirodha for the practitioner.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Fundamental dhyāna’. There are four: prathama-dhyāna, dvifīya-dhyāna, tṛtīya-dhyāna, caturtha-dhyāna. —► dhyāna, dhyānāṅga.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Fundamental/original Sarvāstivāda'. In spite of the name, it is a sub-sect that branched off from the original Sarvāstivāda.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Going everywhere’, universal.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Goingforth’,leaving the home life.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Grasping of the fruit’;i.e., acquiring, in the present moment, the causal efficiency for a dharma’s effect. —►phalāksepa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Great Man ’.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Great Vehicle’. A name used by the Mahāyānists to stress that they aim at the perfect Buddha-hood of all beings, and their ideal is thus superior to that of the Hlnayāna.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Happy dwelling (state of bliss) in the present existence’. This is one of the terms describing the blissful experiences of dhyāna.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Having a cognitive object’;a descriptive term for all mental dharma-s, since they all necessarily take an object in arising.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Having a supporting basis’, a descriptive term for the citta-caitta-dharma-s.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Heard much,;learned in the Buddhist doctrines.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Homogeneous cause’. One of the six causes; it yields an effect which is similar in moral species. —►svaphala-nirvartana.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Impermanence-characteristic’,a viprayukta-saṃskāra-dharma that causes the perishing of a conditioned dharma. One of four characteristics (lakṣaṇa) of the conditioned dharma-s. saṃsṛrta-lakṣaṇa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Impermanence-impermanence’, one of four anulakṣaṇa-s of the conditioned dharma-s. Its function is to cause the perishing of anityatā/vyaya. — anulakṣaṇa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘In front of (/facing)the eyes’,direct perception.—►pramāṇa)