- Buddhist Dictionary
- Manual of Buddhist Terms
and Doctrines
by NYANATILOKA MAHATHERA
-Q-
questions and answers: pañhá-byákarana
(q.v.).
-R-
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.
rapture: píti (q.v.);
further s. bojjhanga.
reaction, sense-: s. patigha.
ready-wit: s. patisambhidá.
reality: s. paramattha. -
Vision and knowledge according to r.- s. vipassaná 15.
realization: For theory, practice
and r., s. pariyatti.
rebirth: s. patisandhi,
paticcasamuppáda (3,10), karma, punabbhava.
receptive consciousness: sampaticchana-citta
(s. viññánakicca).
recollectons: s. anussati.
red-kasina exercise: s. kasina.
reflecting contemplation: patisankhánupassaná
(s. vipassaná, 17).
reflection, power of: patisankhána-bala
(q.v.).
reflex-perceptions: s. patigha
(2a).
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).
relative truth: cf. puggala,
paramattha-sacca, desaná, anattá, satta.
remembrance, of former existences:
s. abhiññá 4.
remorse: kukkucca (q.v.).
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).
restlessness: uddhacca
(q.v.).
retrospective knowledge: paccavekkhana-ñána
(q.v.).
reversible merit: patti-dána
(q.v.).
right understanding (or r. view),
r. thought, etc.: s. magga.
rise and fall (of phenomena): the
knowledge consisting in the contemplation of r. and f., s. visuddhi VI, 1.
round of rebirth: s. vatta
(2), samsára. - The 3-fold r. of r. (s. vatta, 1).
rukkha mulik'anga: s. dhutanga.
rules and ritual, clinging to
mere: (s. samyojana, upádána).
ruminating-natured: vitakka-carita
(s. carita).
rúpa: (1) corporeality (s.
khandha 1); (2) visual object (s. áyatana); (3) fine-material (s. avacara,
jhána).
rúpa-jjhána: s. jhána.
rúpa-kalápa: '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); colour, 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: 'body-group', as
distinguished from náma-káya, 'mind-group' (q.v.). See náma-rúpa.
rúpa-kkhandha: 'corporeality
group'; s. khandha (1).
rúpa loka: 'fine-material world';
s. loka.
rúpárammana: 'visual object',
designates the external of visual physical phenomenon ('light wave') that forms the base
consciousness. Cf. áyatana (2).
rúpa-rúpa = nipphanna-rúpa
(q.v.).
rúpávacara: s. avacara.
rúpáyatana: s. áyatana
(2).