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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)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Independent ignorance’,a mode of avidyā. In this mode, the avidyā arises through its own strength, without relying on the other fundamental or secondary defilements.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Knowable’,object of knowledge.)

Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Knowledge-marker’. Prāpti is the marker of the knowledge that "this [dharma] belongs to that person”.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Knowledge’, a mode of prajñā,characterize … ‘Knowledge’, a mode of prajñā,characterized by decisive (niścita) understanding. Some Sarvāstivāda masters require that knowledge repeatedly discerns thecognitive object. There is a standard set of 10:1. dharma-jñārta, 2. anvaya-jñāna,3. duḥka-jñāna, 4. samudya-jñāna, 5. irodha-jñāna, 6. mārga-jñāna, 7. saṃvṛti-jñāna, 8. paracitta-jñāna, 9. kṣaya-jñāna,10. anutpāda-jñāna.-jñāna, 8. paracitta-jñāna, 9. kṣaya-jñāna,10. anutpāda-jñāna.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Learning’; ‘training’. A female member of the Saṅgha who is under probation for the bhikṣuṇī ordination.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Maintainer/holder of mātṛkā'; the ancient specialists in what later on evolved to be the Ābhidharmikas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Manly/virile activity,. This term refers … ‘Manly/virile activity,. This term refers to the efficacious action of a dharma in a very general sense: Just as a man’s activity is not apart from the man, likewise, a dharma’s efficacious action bringing about a corresponding effect is not apart the dharma itself. AKB, 96: "That fruit which is bom through the force of a certain [dharma] is the fruit of the manly activity of that [dharma]."[dharma] is the fruit of the manly activity of that [dharma].")
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Manly/virile fruit,the fruit for the sahabhū-hetu and saṃprayukta- hetu. However, since puruṣa-kāra refers to the efficacy of a dharma in a very general sense, the fruit of any hetu could also be called a "manly fruit .)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Matter acompanying (/operating together with) thought’;i.e., the avijñapti.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Mental application on the real’.A contemplation on the real nature of things is called a “mental application to the real”,such as the true characteristic of a dharma.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Mind-ground’,mental sphere, mental stage.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Name-and-form,the pycho-physical complex of a sentient.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Nature,‘original nature’.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Non-peacefulness and insecurity’,'not peaceful and insecure .This is a defining feature of what is akuśala.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Not praise-worthy’,vice, transgression.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘One who accords with (or emphasizes) logical reasoning’,a term used by followers of the Sarvāstivāda to refer to themselves in contra-distincion from the Vibhajyavāda.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘One who has been much detached;a practitioner who, before entering into the darśanamārga, has already abandoned (through the worldly path) the defilements abandonable by cultivation, from six to eight categories.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘One who is (totally) destructive’,a nihilist. Saṃghabhadra refers by this term to those who deny the reality of the svabhāva of dharma-s.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Other-nature,as opposed to intrinsic (/self-)nature.-►svabhāva.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Production-production ’,one of the four anulakṣaṇa-s. Its function is to generate jāti. —►anulakṣaṇa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Rabbit-dust’,the size of seven ap-rajas.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Ram-dust’. The size of seven śaśa-rajas-s.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Resemblance of delusion’. It is not the kleśa, delusion itself, but only a resemblance of it. This refers to the vāsanā left behind as a result of the perfuming of moha.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Resemblance of greed’. It is not the kleśa,greed itself, but only a resemblance of it. This refers to the vāsanā left behind as a result of the perfuming of rāga.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Resemblance of hatred’. It is not the kleśa, hatred itself, but only a resemblance of it. This refers to the vāsanā left behind as a result of the perfuming of dveṣa.)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Sameness in mode of activity’: Conjoined thought and thought-concomitants have the same mode of comprehending the shared cognitive object. —►pañca-samatā)
Tsadra Library Glossary Search/All Gloss Entries/Sarvastivada Abhidharma/Glossary + (‘Sameness in respect of [being a singular] … ‘Sameness in respect of [being a singular] substance':Conjoined thought and thought-concomitants are equal in being singular in substance. E.g., although there are three types of sensation (yedanā) and various types of ideations (samjñā), only one single type of sensation and one single of ideation at a time is conjoined with thought and other thought-concomitants. —► pañca-samatād with thought and other thought-concomitants. —► pañca-samatā)