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‘Fundamental/original Sarvāstivāda'. In spite of the name,<br> it is a sub-sect that branched off from the original Sarvāstivāda.  +
'Contemplation-factors,. There are five:(1) vitarka,(2) vicāra, (3 ) prīti,<br> (4) sukha, (5) cittaikāgratā. The first dhyāna has all 5; second,(3)-(5);<br>third, (4) and (5); fourth, only (5).  +
The ‘School of the elders’. The present-day Theravāda is a branch derived<br> rom the lineage of the Sthaviravāda in ancient India.  +
Complete knowledge of the exhaustion of all fetters.  +
The goal of the Buddhist spiritual life, explained in Buddhism as<br>the extinction/blowing out of the fire of rāga, dvesa and moha. It is the state of<br>perfect bliss, and transcedence of all duhkha and births. In Sarvāstivāda,<br>this is not a mere absence of duhkha, but a positive entity acquired when a<br>defilement is abandoned,which serves to prevent the further arising of the<br>defilement. It is a synonym for pratisamkhyā-nirodha.  +
Attainment. In particular, it refers to the nine meditation attainment:<br>four dhyāna-s pertaining to the rūpa-dhātu, four ārūpya samāpatti-s,and<br> nirodha-samāpatti.  +
‘Designation/teaching,on karma’,name of a chapter in the Prajnapti-śāstra.  +
A distinctive transformation of the serial continuity.  +
(A doctrine) whose meaning has been fully drawn out; explicit.—►neyārtha.  +