Property:Gloss-def
From Buddha-Nature
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Essential nature. This term is often used synonymously with svabhāva. +
Criterion or authority for the sütra. The Vaibhāṣikas assert that Abhidharma<br>is the authority for ascertaining the authenticity of a discourse calimed<br> as a sūtra. +
Decided, decisive, definite. +
Depraved opinionatedness. +
Pertaining to the sphere of immateriality. +
Paths of karma; the principal actions (usually given as ten) done through<br> body, speech and mind, akuśala- karma-patha. +
Manifestation, coming into play. +
Knowledge of the cause. +
Discrimination which is the very nature of consciousness itself. +
Mundane, worldly. +
Informative karma. This refers to the bodily and vocal karma-s that are<br>‘informing’,i.e., indicative of the mental state of the doer, +
Disgust, non-delight. +
The mundane path of cultivation. The Sarvāstivāda holds that a prthagjana<br>can also abandon defilements, albeit not absolutely. He does so through the<br>mundane path of cultivation, developing disgust towards a lower stage by<br>contemplatting on its being audārika, sthulabhittaka and duhkhila, and delight<br>in a higher state by contemplating it as being śānta, pramta and nihsarana. +
Non-defined root. +
Candidate for the fruit of stream entry. +
‘Grasping of the fruit’;i.e., acquiring, in the present moment, the causal<br> efficiency for a dharma’s effect. —►phalāksepa. +
