--- title: Extracting Data toc: true --- ## Making a local Copy With httrack or wget we get a local copy of the website. You will need a local http-server to preview correctly the local site if you want to. ## Mapping Nodes and Links Using phind.com we get a script to recusively extract Nodes and Links from each pages. ```js echo run=false import path from 'path'; import cheerio from 'cheerio'; import fs from 'fs'; // Recursive function to get .htm files function getFiles(dir, files = []) { const fileList = fs.readdirSync(dir); for (const file of fileList) { const filePath = path.join(dir, file); const stats = fs.statSync(filePath); if (stats.isDirectory()) { // If it's a directory, recursively traverse it getFiles(filePath, files); } else if (path.extname(filePath) === '.htm' && !getLastElement(filePath).startsWith('dic') && !getLastElement(filePath).startsWith('table') ) { // If it's an .htm file, add it to the list files.push(filePath); } } return files; } // Usage const dirPath = './docs/data/website'; // Replace with your directory path const allFiles = getFiles(dirPath); // console.log(allFiles) // Function to extract information from a single .htm file function extractInfoFromFile(filePath) { const html = fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf-8'); const $ = cheerio.load(html); // Find the last

tag within the const firstHr = $('body hr').first(); // Select all elements after the first

until the end of the body const contentAfterFirstHr = firstHr.nextUntil('body').toArray(); // Find the first

element within the const firstCenteredParagraph = $('body p[align="center"]').first(); // Convert the selected elements to HTML and log them to the console const htmlContent = $.html(firstCenteredParagraph); // Define the file path and the data to append const filePath2 = 'message.txt'; // Append data to the file fs.appendFile(filePath2, htmlContent, 'utf8', (err) => { if (err) throw err; console.log('The data was appended to the file!'); }); // Remove all elements after the last

firstCenteredParagraph.nextAll().remove(); const title = $('title').text(); const bodyContent = $('body').text(); const title2 = $('h2').text(); const first = $('p:first').text(); const titleEn = first.trim().split(' ').slice(0, 5).join(' ')+'...'; const titleEn2 = first.trim().split(',')[0].replaceAll("'",""); const links = []; $('a').each((i, link) => { const name = getLastElement($(link).attr('href')) if (!name?.startsWith('dic') && !name?.startsWith('index') && !name?.endsWith('top') && !name?.startsWith('english') && !name?.startsWith('table') ) links.push(name); }); return { title2, titleEn2, titleEn, title, first, links }; } // Function to process all .htm files and output a JSON function processFiles(filePaths) { const results = filePaths.map(filePath => { const info = extractInfoFromFile(filePath); return { file: getLastElement(filePath), info }; }); // Write the results to a JSON file const location = 'data2-1.json' const location1 = './docs/data/data.json' fs.writeFileSync(location, JSON.stringify(results, null, 2), 'utf-8'); console.log('Data successfully saved to '+location); } function getLastElement(str) { return str?.substring(str.lastIndexOf('/') + 1); } // Usage processFiles(allFiles); ```` ## JSON data With the script above, we get the following JSON: ```js echo [ { "file": "aanupubbii_kathaa.htm", "info": { "title2": "ānupubbī-kathā", "titleEn2": "gradual instruction", "titleEn": "'gradual instruction', progressive sermon; given...", "title": "ānupubbí", "first": "'gradual instruction', progressive sermon; given by the Buddha when it \nwas necessary to prepare first the listener's mind before speaking to him on the \nadvanced teaching of the Four Noble Truths. The stock passage (e.g. D. 3; D 14; \nM. 56) runs as follows:", "links": [ "daana.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "aarammana.htm", "info": { "title2": "ārammana", "titleEn2": "object. There are six: visible object", "titleEn": "'object'. There are six: visible...", "title": "ārammana", "first": "'object'. There are six: visible object, sound, odor, taste, \nbody-impression, mind-object. ", "links": [ "khandha.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "aasava.htm", "info": { "title2": "āsava", "titleEn2": "(lit: influxes)", "titleEn": "(lit: influxes), 'cankers', taints, corruption's,...", "title": "āsava", "first": " (lit: influxes), 'cankers', taints, corruption's, intoxicant biases. ", "links": [ "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "aavajjana.htm", "info": { "title2": "āvajjana", "titleEn2": "advertence of the mind towards the object", "titleEn": "'advertence' of the mind towards...", "title": "āvajjana", "first": "'advertence' of the mind towards the object, forms the first stage in \nthe process of consciousness (s. viññāna-kicca). \n \n", "links": [ "vinnaana_kicca.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "aayatana.htm", "info": { "title2": "āyatana", "titleEn2": "1. spheres", "titleEn": "1. 'spheres', is a name...", "title": "āyatana", "first": " 1. 'spheres', is a name for the four immaterial absorptions; s. \njhāna (5-8). ", "links": [ "jhaana.htm", "dhaatu.htm", "vinnaana_kicca.htm", "dhaatu.htm", "indriya.htm", "paticca_samuppaada.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "aayuuhana.htm", "info": { "title2": "āyūhana", "titleEn2": "(karmic) accumulation", "titleEn": "(karmic) 'accumulation', is a name...", "title": "āyúhana", "first": " (karmic) 'accumulation', is a name used in the commentarial literature \nfor the wholesome and unwholesome volitional activities (karma, q.v.) or \nkarma-formations (sankhāra; s. paticca-samuppāda), being the bases \nof future rebirth. ", "links": [ "vinnaana_kicca.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "abhabbagamana.htm", "info": { "title2": "abhabbāgamana", "titleEn2": "incapable of progressing.", "titleEn": "'incapable of progressing'....", "title": "abhabbāgamana", "first": "'incapable of progressing'. ", "links": [ "karma.htm", "kilesa.htm", "vipaaka.htm", "anantarika_kamma.htm", "ditthi.htm", "abhibhayatana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "abhibhayatana.htm", "info": { "title2": "abhibhāyatana", "titleEn2": "the 8 stages of mastery", "titleEn": "the 8 'stages of mastery',...", "title": "abhibhāyatana", "first": " the 8 'stages of mastery', are powers to be obtained by means of the \nkasina-exercises (s. kasina). In the Com. \nto M.77, where āyatana is explained by 'means' (kārana) it is \nsaid: \"The abhibhāyatana through their counteracting may master \n(suppress) the adverse states, and by means of higher knowledge they may master \nthe objects of mind.\" They are means for transcending the sensuous sphere.", "links": [ "kasina.htm", "nimitta.htm", "jhaana.htm", "vimokkha.htm", "abhabbagamana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "abhinna.htm", "info": { "title2": "abhiññā", "titleEn2": "The 6 higher powers", "titleEn": "The 6 'higher powers', or...", "title": "abhiññā", "first": " The 6 'higher powers', or supernormal knowledge's, consist of 5 mundane (lokiya) \npowers attainable through the utmost perfection in mental concentration (samādhi) and one supermundane (lokuttara) \npower attainable through penetrating insight (vipassanā), \ni.e. extinction of all cankers (āsavakkhaya; s. \nāsava), in other words, realization of Arahatship or Holiness. ", "links": [ "lokiya.htm", "samaadhi.htm", "lokuttara.htm", "vipassanaa.htm", "aasava.htm", "te_vijja.htm", "patipadaa.htm", "abhibhayatana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "abhisamacarika.htm", "info": { "title2": "abhisamācārika-sīla ", "titleEn2": "morality consisting in good behaviour", "titleEn": "'morality consisting in good behaviour',...", "title": "abhisamācārika", "first": " 'morality consisting in good behaviour', ", "links": [ "sacca.htm", "adibrahmacariyaka.htm", "abhinna.htm" ] } }, { "file": "abhisamaya.htm", "info": { "title2": "abhisamaya: ", "titleEn2": "truth-realization", "titleEn": "'truth-realization',...", "title": "abhisamaya", "first": "'truth-realization', ", "links": [ "ariya_puggala.htm", "abhisamacarika.htm" ] } }, { "file": "acinteyya.htm", "info": { "title2": "acinteyya", "titleEn2": "lit. That which cannot or should not be thought", "titleEn": "lit. 'That which cannot or...", "title": "acinteyya", "first": " lit. 'That which cannot or should not be thought, the unthinkable, \nincomprehensible, impenetrable, that which transcends the limits of thinking and \nover which therefore one should not ponder. ", "links": [ "abhisamaya.htm" ] } }, { "file": "adhimokkha.htm", "info": { "title2": "\n\n\tadhimokkha", "titleEn2": "determination", "titleEn": "'determination', decision, resolve:...", "title": "adhimokkha", "first": "'determination', decision, resolve: ", "links": [ "acinteyya.htm" ] } }, { "file": "adhitthana.htm", "info": { "title2": "adhitthāna", "titleEn2": "as a doctrinal term", "titleEn": "as a doctrinal term, occurs...", "title": "adhitthāna", "first": " as a doctrinal term, occurs chiefly in two meanings:", "links": [ "iddhi.htm", "adhimokkha.htm" ] } }, { "file": "adibrahmacariyaka.htm", "info": { "title2": "ādibrahmacariyaka-sīla", "titleEn2": "morality of genuine pure conduct", "titleEn": "'morality of genuine pure conduct',...", "title": "ādibrahmacariyaka", "first": "'morality of genuine pure conduct', ", "links": [ "sacca.htm", "samyojana.htm", "sotaapanna.htm", "adhitthana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "adinavanupassana.htm", "info": { "title2": "ādīnavānupassanā-ñāna", "titleEn2": "knowledge consisting in contemplation of misery", "titleEn": "'knowledge consisting in contemplation of...", "title": "ādínavānupassanā", "first": "'knowledge consisting in contemplation of misery', ", "links": [ "visuddhi.htm", "vipassanaa.htm", "adibrahmacariyaka.htm" ] } }, { "file": "agati.htm", "info": { "title2": "agati", "titleEn2": "the 4 wrong paths are:", "titleEn": "the 4 'wrong paths' are:...", "title": "agati", "first": " the 4 'wrong paths' are: ", "links": [ "adinavanupassana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "ahara.htm", "info": { "title2": "āhāra", "titleEn2": "nutriment", "titleEn": "'nutriment', 'food',...", "title": "āhāra", "first": "'nutriment', 'food', ", "links": [ "khandha.htm", "paccaya.htm", "ruupa_kalaapa.htm", "paticca_samuppaada.htm", "karma.htm", "agati.htm" ] } }, { "file": "ahirika.htm", "info": { "title2": "ahirika-anottappa", "titleEn2": "lack of moral shame and dread", "titleEn": "'lack of moral shame and...", "title": "ahirika", "first": "'lack of moral shame and dread', ", "links": [ "ahara.htm" ] } }, { "file": "akasa.htm", "info": { "title2": "ākāsa", "titleEn2": "space", "titleEn": "'space', is, according to Com.,...", "title": "ākāsa", "first": "'space', is, according to Com., of two kinds: ", "links": [ "khandha.htm", "dhaatu.htm", "kasina.htm", "jhaana.htm", "ahirika.htm" ] } }, { "file": "akuppa.htm", "info": { "title2": "akuppa-dhamma", "titleEn2": "unshakable", "titleEn": "'unshakable', is one who has...", "title": "akuppa", "first": "'unshakable', is one who has attained full mastery over the absorptions \n(jhāna). ", "links": [ "jhaana.htm", "akasa.htm" ] } }, { "file": "akusala-sadharana.htm", "info": { "title2": "akusala-sādhārana-cetasika", "titleEn2": "general unwholesome mental factors associated with all unwholesome \nactions (volitions)", "titleEn": "'general unwholesome mental factors associated...", "title": "akusala", "first": "'general unwholesome mental factors associated with all unwholesome \nactions' (volitions), are four: ", "links": [ "ahirika.htm", "niivarana.htm", "akusala.htm" ] } }, { "file": "akusala-vitakka.htm", "info": { "title2": "akusala-vitakka", "titleEn2": "unwholesome thoughts", "titleEn": "'unwholesome thoughts'...", "title": "akusala", "first": "'unwholesome thoughts' ", "links": [ "akusala-sadharana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "akusala.htm", "info": { "title2": "akusala", "titleEn2": "unwholesome", "titleEn": "'unwholesome',...", "title": "akusala", "first": "'unwholesome', ", "links": [ "cetanaa.htm", "karma.htm", "paticca_samuppaada.htm", "akuppa.htm" ] } }, { "file": "aloka_sanna.htm", "info": { "title2": "āloka-saññā", "titleEn2": "perception of light.", "titleEn": "'perception of light'....", "title": "āloka", "first": "'perception of light'. ", "links": [ "visuddhi.htm", "abhinna.htm", "akusala-vitakka.htm" ] } }, { "file": "amata.htm", "info": { "title2": "amata ", "titleEn2": "(Sanskrit amrta; √\nmr to die; = Gr. ambrosia): Deathlessness", "titleEn": "(Sanskrit amrta; √\nmr to die;...", "title": "amata", "first": " (Sanskrit amrta; √\nmr to die; = Gr. ambrosia): 'Deathlessness' ", "links": [ "aloka_sanna.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anagami.htm", "info": { "title2": "Anāgāmī", "titleEn2": "the Non-Returner", "titleEn": "the 'Non-Returner', is a noble...", "title": "Anāgāmí", "first": "the 'Non-Returner', is a noble disciple (ariya-puggala) \non the 3rd stage of holiness. ", "links": [ "ariya_puggala.htm", "samyojana.htm", "suddhaavaasa.htm", "avihaa.htm", "suddhaavaasa.htm", "sudassaa.htm", "sudassii.htm", "akanitthaa_devaa.htm", "amata.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anantarika_kamma.htm", "info": { "title2": "ānantarika-kamma", "titleEn2": "the 5 heinous actions with immediate destiny are:", "titleEn": "the 5 heinous 'actions with...", "title": "ānantarika", "first": " the 5 heinous 'actions with immediate destiny' are: ", "links": [ "anagami.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anantariya.htm", "info": { "title2": "ānantariya", "titleEn2": "the Immediacy", "titleEn": "the 'Immediacy', is a name...", "title": "ānantariya", "first": " the 'Immediacy', is a name for that concentration of mind which is \nassociated with such insight (vipassanā) \nas is present in any one of the 4 kinds of supermundane path consciousness (s. \nariya-puggala), and which therefore is the cause of the immediately \nfollowing consciousness as its result or 'fruition' (phala). ", "links": [ "vipassanaa.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "phala.htm", "sotaapanna.htm", "anantarika_kamma.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anapana_sati.htm", "info": { "title2": "ānāpāna-sati", "titleEn2": "mindfulness on in-and-out-breathing", "titleEn": "'mindfulness on in-and-out-breathing',...", "title": "ānāpāna", "first": "'mindfulness on in-and-out-breathing', ", "links": [ "jhaana.htm", "samatha.htm", "satipatthaana.htm", "ceto_vimutti.htm", "pannaa_vimutti.htm", "anantariya.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anatta.htm", "info": { "title2": "anattā", "titleEn2": "not-self", "titleEn": "'not-self', non-ego, egolessness, impersonality,...", "title": "anattā", "first": "'not-self', non-ego, egolessness, impersonality, ", "links": [ "ti_lakkhana.htm", "vimokkha.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "anapana_sati.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anicca.htm", "info": { "title2": "anicca", "titleEn2": "impermanent (or", "titleEn": "'impermanent' (or, as abstract noun,...", "title": "anicca", "first": "'impermanent' (or, as abstract noun, aniccatā, 'impermanence') ", "links": [ "ti_lakkhana.htm", "khandha.htm", "aayatana.htm", "nibbaana.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "visuddhi.htm", "vimokkha.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "anicca_sanna.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anicca_sanna.htm", "info": { "title2": "anicca-saññā", "titleEn2": "perception of impermanence", "titleEn": "'perception of impermanence', is defined...", "title": "anicca", "first": "'perception of impermanence', is defined in the Girimananda Sutta (A.X. \n60) as meditation on the impermanence of the five groups of existence.", "links": [ "anicca.htm" ] } }, { "file": "annaa.htm", "info": { "title2": "aññā", "titleEn2": "highest knowledge", "titleEn": "'highest knowledge', gnosis, refers to...", "title": "aññā", "first": "'highest knowledge', gnosis, refers to the perfect knowledge of the Saint \n(Arahat; s. ariya-puggala). ", "links": [ "ariya_puggala.htm", "indriya.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anuloma_citta.htm", "info": { "title2": "anuloma-citta", "titleEn2": "adaptation-moment of consciousness", "titleEn": "'adaptation-moment of consciousness',...", "title": "anuloma", "first": "'adaptation-moment of consciousness', \n \n", "links": [ "javana.htm", "jhaana.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "javana.htm", "gotrabhuu.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anuloma_naana.htm", "info": { "title2": "anuloma-ñāna", "titleEn2": "adaptation-knowledge or conformity-knowledge", "titleEn": "'adaptation-knowledge' or conformity-knowledge,...", "title": "anuloma", "first": "'adaptation-knowledge' or conformity-knowledge, ", "links": [ "visuddhi.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anupassanaa.htm", "info": { "title2": "anupassanā", "titleEn2": "contemplation - 4 fold: s. \nsatipatthāna \n- 18 fold: s. vipassanā. \n- 7 fold:", "titleEn": "'contemplation' - 4 fold: s....", "title": "anupassanā", "first": "'contemplation' - 4 fold: s. \nsatipatthāna \n- 18 fold: s. vipassanā. \n- 7 fold: ", "links": [ "satipatthaana.htm", "vipassanaa.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anupubba_nirodha.htm", "info": { "title2": "anupubba-nirodha", "titleEn2": "The 9 successive extinctions", "titleEn": "The 9 'successive extinctions', are...", "title": "anupubba", "first": " The 9 'successive extinctions', are the 8 extinctions reached through \nthe 8 absorptions (jhāna, q.v.) and the extinction of feeling and \nperception' (s. nirodha-samāpatti), as it is said in A. IX, 31 and D. 33:", "links": [ "jhaana.htm", "nirodha_samaapatti.htm", "vitakka_vicaara.htm", "piiti.htm", "assaasaa_passaasa.htm", "jhaana.htm", "nirodha_samaapatti.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anupubba_vihaara.htm", "info": { "title2": "anupubba-vihāra", "titleEn2": "the 9 successive abodes", "titleEn": "the 9 'successive abodes', are...", "title": "anupubba", "first": " the 9 'successive abodes', are identical with the 9 anupubba-nirodha \n(s. above). ", "links": [ "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anusaya.htm", "info": { "title2": "anusaya", "titleEn2": "the 7 proclivities", "titleEn": "the 7 'proclivities', inclinations, or...", "title": "anusaya", "first": " the 7 'proclivities', inclinations, or tendencies are: sensuous greed (kāma-rāga, \ns. \nsamyojana), grudge (patigha), \nspeculative opinion (ditthi), sceptical \ndoubt (vicikicchā), \nconceit (māna), craving for continued \nexistence (bhavarāga), ignorance (avijjā) \n(D.33; A.VII.11-12).", "links": [ "samyojana.htm", "ditthi.htm", "vicikicchaa.htm", "maana.htm", "avijjaa.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "anussati.htm", "info": { "title2": "anussati", "titleEn2": "recollection", "titleEn": "'recollection', meditation, contemplation. The six...", "title": "anussati", "first": "'recollection', meditation, contemplation. The six recollections often \ndescribed in the Suttas (e.g. A.VI.10, 25; D.33) are: \n \n", "links": [ "ariya_puggala.htm", "deva.htm", "marana.htm", "kaaya_gata_sati.htm", "anapana_sati.htm", "upasamaanussati.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "apaaya.htm", "info": { "title2": "apāya", "titleEn2": "The 4 lower worlds. are:", "titleEn": "The 4 'lower worlds'. are:...", "title": "apāya", "first": "The 4 'lower worlds'. are: \n ", "links": [] } }, { "file": "aparihaana_dhamma.htm", "info": { "title2": "aparihāna-dhamma", "titleEn2": "incapable of relapse", "titleEn": "'incapable of relapse', or 'of...", "title": "aparihāna", "first": "'incapable of relapse', or 'of falling away', namely, with regard to \ndeliverance from some or all fetters of existence (s. samyojana). ", "links": [ "samyojana.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "jhaana.htm", "akuppa.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "aparihaaniya_dhamma.htm", "info": { "title2": "aparihāniya-dhamma", "titleEn2": "conditions of welfare (lit. of non-decline)", "titleEn": "'conditions of welfare' (lit. of...", "title": "aparihāniya", "first": "'conditions of welfare' (lit. of non-decline), for a nation. ", "links": [ "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "appamaada.htm", "info": { "title2": "appamāda", "titleEn2": "zeal", "titleEn": "'zeal', non-laxity, earnestness, diligence, is...", "title": "appamāda", "first": "'zeal', non-laxity, earnestness, diligence, is considered as the \n foundation of all progress.", "links": [ "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "appanaa_samaadhi.htm", "info": { "title2": "appanā-samādhi", "titleEn2": "attainment concentration or full concentration (from apeti", "titleEn": "'attainment concentration' or 'full concentration'...", "title": "appanā", "first": "'attainment concentration' or 'full concentration' (from apeti, \nto fix), is the concentration existing during absorption (jhāna, q.v.), \nwhilst the neighbourhood or access-concentration (upacāra-samādhi) \nonly approaches the 1st absorption without attaining it; s. samādhi.", "links": [ "jhaana.htm", "samaadhi.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "ariya_puggala.htm", "info": { "title2": "ariya-puggala", "titleEn2": "Noble Ones", "titleEn": "'Noble Ones', 'noble persons'....", "title": "ariya", "first": "'Noble Ones', 'noble persons'.", "links": [ "gotrabhuu.htm", "samyojana.htm", "ditthi.htm", "vicikicchaa.htm", "upaadaana.htm", "raaga.htm", "muula.htm", "maana.htm", "uddhacca.htm", "avijjaa.htm", "nibbaana.htm", "sotaapanna.htm", "anagami.htm" ] } }, { "file": "ariya_vamsa.htm", "info": { "title2": "ariya-vamsa", "titleEn2": "The four noble usages", "titleEn": "The four 'noble usage's', are:...", "title": "ariya", "first": " The four 'noble usage's', are: contentedness (of the monk) with any \nrobe, contentedness with any alms-food, contentedness with any dwelling, and \ndelight in meditation and detachment. In the Ariya-vamsa Sutta, (A. IV , 28) and \nsimilarly in D. 33, it is said :", "links": [ "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "asankhaarika_citta.htm", "info": { "title2": "asankhārika-citta", "titleEn2": "an Abhidhamma term signifying a state of consciousness arisen \nspontaneously", "titleEn": "an Abhidhamma term signifying a...", "title": "asankhārika", "first": " an Abhidhamma term signifying a 'state of consciousness arisen \nspontaneously', i.e. without previous deliberation, preparation, or prompting by \nothers; hence: 'unprepared, unprompted'. ", "links": [ "sasankhaarika.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "asanna_satta.htm", "info": { "title2": "asañña-satta", "titleEn2": "The unconscious beings", "titleEn": "The 'unconscious beings', are a...", "title": "asañña", "first": " The 'unconscious beings', are a class of heavenly beings in the \nfine-material world; s. deva (II). 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See vimokkha I.", "links": [ "ariya_puggala.htm", "pannaa_vimutti.htm", "dasa_bala.htm", "vimokkha.htm", "brahma_vihaara.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "cetokhila.htm", "info": { "title2": "cetokhila", "titleEn2": "mental obduracies", "titleEn": "'mental obduracies', are 5 things...", "title": "cetokhila", "first": "'mental obduracies', are 5 things which stiffen and hinder the mind from \nmaking right exertion, namely: ", "links": [ "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "chanda.htm", "info": { "title2": "chanda", "titleEn2": "intention", "titleEn": "intention, desire, will....", "title": "chanda", "first": " intention, desire, will.", "links": [ "cetasika.htm", "cetanaa.htm", "paccaya.htm", "niivarana.htm", "kaama.htm", "agati.htm", "padhaana.htm", "iddhi_paada.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "citta.htm", "info": { "title2": "citta", "titleEn2": "mind", "titleEn": "'mind', 'consciousness', 'state of consciousness',...", "title": "citta", "first": "'mind', 'consciousness', 'state of consciousness', is a synonym of \nmano and \nviññāna (s. khandha and\nTab. 1). 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II).", "links": [] } }, { "file": "iddhi.htm", "info": { "title2": "iddhi", "titleEn2": "power", "titleEn": "'power', 'magical power'. The magical...", "title": "iddhi", "first": "'power', 'magical power'. The magical powers constitute one of the 6 \nkinds of higher spiritual powers (abhiññā, q.v.). One distinguishes many \nkinds of magical powers: ", "links": [ "abhinna.htm" ] } }, { "file": "iddhi_paada.htm", "info": { "title2": "iddhi-pāda", "titleEn2": "roads to power (or success) are the 4 following qualities", "titleEn": "'roads to power' (or success)...", "title": "iddhi", "first": "'roads to power' (or success) are the 4 following qualities, \"for as \nguides, they indicate the road to power connected therewith; and because they \nform, by way of preparation, the roads to the power constituting the fruition of \nthe path\" (Vis.M. XII), namely: ", "links": [] } }, { "file": "indriya.htm", "info": { "title2": "indriya", "titleEn2": "faculties", "titleEn": "'faculties', is a name for...", "title": "indriya", "first": "'faculties', is a name for 22, partly physical, partly mental, phenomena \noften treated in the Suttas as well as in the Abhidhamma. They are:", "links": [ "aayatana.htm", "bhaava.htm", "vedanaa.htm", "bala.htm", "upekkhaa.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "paccaya.htm", "paccaya.htm" ] } }, { "file": "indriya_samatta.htm", "info": { "title2": "indriya-samatta", "titleEn2": "equilibrium", "titleEn": "'equilibrium, balance, or harmony of...", "title": "indriya", "first": "'equilibrium, balance, or harmony of faculties', relates to the 5 \nspiritual faculties: ", "links": [ "indriya.htm", "saddhaa.htm", "pannaa.htm", "viriya.htm", "samaadhi.htm" ] } }, { "file": "investigation.htm", "info": { "title2": "investigation", "titleEn2": "full understanding through: tīranapariññā", "titleEn": "full understanding through: tīranapariññā,\ns. pariññā....", "title": "investigation", "first": " full understanding through: tīranapariññā,\ns. pariññā. - ", "links": [ "parinnaa.htm", "iddhi_paada.htm", "paccaya.htm", "bojjhanga.htm" ] } }, { "file": "iriyaa_patha.htm", "info": { "title2": "iriyā-patha ", "titleEn2": "(lit. ways of movement): bodily postures", "titleEn": "(lit. 'ways of movement'): 'bodily...", "title": "iriyā", "first": " (lit. 'ways of movement'): 'bodily postures', i.e. going, standing, \nsitting, lying. In the Satipatthāna-sutta (s. satipatthāna),\nthey form the subject of a contemplation and an exercise in mindfulness.", "links": [ "satipatthaana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "jaati.htm", "info": { "title2": "jāti", "titleEn2": "birth", "titleEn": "'birth', comprises the entire embryonic...", "title": "jāti", "first": "'birth', comprises the entire embryonic process beginning with \nconception and ending with parturition.", "links": [ "khandha.htm", "bhava.htm", "paticca_samuppaada.htm", "patisandhi.htm" ] } }, { "file": "javana.htm", "info": { "title2": "javana ", "titleEn2": "(fr. javati", "titleEn": "(fr. javati, to impel): 'impulsion',...", "title": "javana", "first": " (fr. javati, to impel): 'impulsion', is the phase of full \ncognition in the cognitive series, or perceptual process (citta-vīthi;\ns. viññāna-kicca) occurring at its climax, if the respective object \nis large or distinct. It is at this phase that karma is produced, i.e. wholesome \nor unwholesome volition concerning the perception that was the object of the \nprevious stages of the respective process of consciousness. ", "links": [ "vinnaana_kicca.htm", "lokiya.htm", "kiriya.htm", "jhaana.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "gotrabhuu.htm", "kasina.htm", "bhavanga_sota.htm", "vinnaana_kicca.htm", "avacara.htm", "jhaana.htm", "jaati.htm", "jhaana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "jhaana.htm", "info": { "title2": "jhāna", "titleEn2": "absorption (meditation) refers chiefly to the four meditative \nabsorptions of the fine-material sphere (rūpa-jjhāna or\nrūpāvacara-jjhāna; s. avacara).", "titleEn": "'absorption' (meditation) refers chiefly to...", "title": "jhāna", "first": "'absorption' (meditation) refers chiefly to the four meditative \nabsorptions of the fine-material sphere (rūpa-jjhāna or\nrūpāvacara-jjhāna; s. avacara). ", "links": [ "avacara.htm", "samaadhi.htm", "niivarana.htm", "bhaavanaa.htm", "niivarana.htm", "paadaka_jjhaana.htm", "abhinna.htm", "samatha_vipassanaa.htm", "paccaya.htm" ] } }, { "file": "jiiva.htm", "info": { "title2": "jīva", "titleEn2": "life", "titleEn": "life, vital principle, individual soul....", "title": "jíva", "first": " life, vital principle, individual soul. 'Soul (life) and body are \nidentical' and 'Soul and body are different', these two frequently quoted wrong \nviews fall under the 2 kinds of personality-belief (sakkāya-ditthi;\ns. ditthi), i.e. the first one under the annihilation-belief \n(uccheda-ditthi)\nand the second under the eternity-belief (sassata-ditthi).", "links": [ "ditthi.htm" ] } }, { "file": "kaama.htm", "info": { "title2": "kāma ", "titleEn2": "may denote:", "titleEn": "may denote:...", "title": "kāma may denote", "first": " may denote: ", "links": [ "niivarana.htm", "samyojana.htm", "tanhaa.htm", "vitakka.htm", "aasava.htm", "upaadaana.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "samyojana.htm", "aanupubbii_kathaa.htm" ] } }, { "file": "kaamesu_miccaacaara.htm", "info": { "title2": "kāmesu-micchācāra", "titleEn2": "lit. wrong or evil conduct with regard to sensual things; unlawful \nsexual intercourse refers to adultery", "titleEn": "lit. 'wrong or evil conduct...", "title": "kāmesu", "first": " lit. 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", "links": [] } }, { "file": "kaaya.htm", "info": { "title2": "kāya ", "titleEn2": "(lit: accumulation): group", "titleEn": "(lit: accumulation): 'group', 'body', may...", "title": "kāya", "first": " (lit: accumulation): 'group', 'body', may either refer to the physical \nbody (rūpa-kāya) or to the mental body (nāma-kāya).\n", "links": [ "aayatana.htm", "dhaatu.htm", "indriya.htm" ] } }, { "file": "kaaya_gata_sati.htm", "info": { "title2": "kāya-gatā-sati", "titleEn2": "mindfulness with regard to the body", "titleEn": "'mindfulness with regard to the...", "title": "kāya", "first": "'mindfulness with regard to the body', refers sometimes (e.g. Vis.M. \nVIII.2) only to the contemplation on the 32 parts of the body, sometimes (e.g. \nM.119) to all the various meditations comprised under the 'contemplation of the \nbody' (kāyānupassanā), the 1st of the 4 'foundations of mindfulness' \n(satipatthāna, q.v.), consisting partly in concentration (samādhi) \nexercises, partly in insight (vipassanā) exercises. 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This again is subdivided into 4 sections: ", "links": [ "samsaara.htm" ] } }, { "file": "karma.htm", "info": { "title2": "karma (Sanskrit), Pāli: kamma", "titleEn2": "action", "titleEn": "'action', correctly speaking denotes the...", "title": "karma", "first": "'action', correctly speaking denotes the wholesome and unwholesome volitions \n(kusala- and\nakusala-cetanā) and their concomitant mental factors, causing rebirth and \nshaping the destiny of beings. 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", "links": [ "paccaya.htm", "hadaya_vatthu.htm", "vinnatti.htm", "akasa.htm", "santaana.htm", "ahara.htm", "vinnaana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "khidda_padosikaa.htm", "info": { "title2": "khidda-padosikā devā", "titleEn2": "the celestial beings corruptible by pleasures", "titleEn": "'the celestial beings corruptible by...", "title": "khidda", "first": "'the celestial beings corruptible by pleasures', are a class of devas (q.v.) of the sensuous sphere. ", "links": [ "deva.htm" ] } }, { "file": "kilesa.htm", "info": { "title2": "kilesa", "titleEn2": "defilements", "titleEn": "'defilements', are mind-defiling, unwholesome qualities....", "title": "kilesa", "first": "'defilements', are mind-defiling, unwholesome qualities. Vis.M. 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", "links": [] } }, { "file": "kusala.htm", "info": { "title2": "kusala", "titleEn2": "karmically wholesome or profitable", "titleEn": "'karmically wholesome' or 'profitable', salutary,...", "title": "kusala", "first": "'karmically wholesome' or 'profitable', salutary, morally good, \n(skillful) ", "links": [ "kamma_patha.htm", "muula.htm", "muula.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "kiriya.htm" ] } }, { "file": "kusala_muula.htm", "info": { "title2": "kusala-mūla", "titleEn2": "the wholesome roots or roots of wholesome action", "titleEn": "the 'wholesome roots' or 'roots...", "title": "kusala", "first": " the 'wholesome roots' or 'roots of wholesome action', are ", "links": [ "muula.htm", "paccaya.htm" ] } }, { "file": "loka.htm", "info": { "title2": "loka", "titleEn2": "world", "titleEn": "'world', denotes the 3 spheres...", "title": "loka", "first": "'world', denotes the 3 spheres of existence comprising the whole \nuniverse, i.e. ", "links": [ "jhaana.htm", "jhaana.htm", "niraya.htm", "deva.htm", "khandha.htm" ] } }, { "file": "lokiya.htm", "info": { "title2": "lokiya", "titleEn2": "mundane", "titleEn": "'mundane',...", "title": "lokiya", "first": "'mundane', ", "links": [ "ariya_puggala.htm" ] } }, { "file": "lokuttara.htm", "info": { "title2": "lokuttara", "titleEn2": "supermundane", "titleEn": "'supermundane',...", "title": "lokuttara", "first": "'supermundane', ", "links": [ "ariya_puggala.htm" ] } }, { "file": "maana.htm", "info": { "title2": "māna", "titleEn2": "conceit", "titleEn": "'conceit', pride, is one of...", "title": "māna", "first": "'conceit', pride, is one of the 10 fetters binding to existence (s. \nsamyojana). It vanishes completely only at the entrance to Arahatship, \nor Holiness (cf. asmi-māna). It is further one of the proclivities (s. \nanusaya) and defilements (s. \nkilesa). \"", "links": [ "samyojana.htm", "anusaya.htm", "kilesa.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "maara.htm", "info": { "title2": "Māra", "titleEn2": "(lit. the killer)", "titleEn": "(lit. 'the killer'), is the...", "title": "Māra", "first": " (lit. 'the killer'), is the Buddhist 'Tempter-figure. He is often called \n'Māra the Evil One' (pāpimā māro)\nor Namuci (lit. 'the non-liberator', i.e. the opponent of liberation). He \nappears in the texts both as a real person (i.e. as a deity) and as \npersonification of evil and passions, of the totality of worldly existence, and \nof death. Later Pāli literature often speaks of a 'fivefold Māra' \n(pañca-māra):\n1. M. as a deity (devaputta-māra), 2. the M. of defilements \n(kilesa-m.),\n3. the M. of the aggregates (khandha-m.), 4. the M. of the \nkarma-formations (kamma-m.), and 5. Māra as death (maccu-m.).", "links": [] } }, { "file": "mada.htm", "info": { "title2": "mada", "titleEn2": "infatuation. \"Infatuation is of 3 kinds:", "titleEn": "'infatuation'. \"Infatuation is of 3...", "title": "mada", "first": "'infatuation'. \"Infatuation is of 3 kinds:\n\n", "links": [] } }, { "file": "magga.htm", "info": { "title2": "magga", "titleEn2": "path.", "titleEn": "'path'....", "title": "magga", "first": "'path'. 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As \nmahaggata-citta, it is the state of 'developed consciousness', attained in \nthe fine-material and immaterial absorptions (s.\njhāna); it is mentioned in the mind-contemplation of the Satipatthāna Sutta \n(M. 10). - ", "links": [] } }, { "file": "majjhimaa_patipadaa.htm", "info": { "title2": "majjhimā-patipadā", "titleEn2": "Middle Path", "titleEn": "'Middle Path', is the Noble...", "title": "majjhimā", "first": "'Middle Path', is the Noble Eightfold Path which, by avoiding the two \nextremes of sensual lust and self-torment, leads to enlightenment and \ndeliverance from suffering.", "links": [] } }, { "file": "manasikaara.htm", "info": { "title2": "manasikāra", "titleEn2": "attention", "titleEn": "'attention', 'mental advertence', 'reflection'....", "title": "manasikāra", "first": "'attention', 'mental advertence', 'reflection'.", "links": [ "cetanaa.htm", "vinnaana_kicca.htm", "aasava.htm", "sotaapattiyanga.htm" ] } }, { "file": "mangala.htm", "info": { "title2": "mangala", "titleEn2": "means", "titleEn": "means, in general usage, anything...", "title": "mangala", "first": " means, in general usage, anything regarded as 'auspicious' 'lucky', or a \n'good omen'. 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VIII:", "links": [ "paticca_samuppaada.htm", "maranaanussati.htm", "vinnaana_kicca.htm" ] } }, { "file": "maranaanussati.htm", "info": { "title2": "maranānussati", "titleEn2": "recollection of death", "titleEn": "'recollection of death', is one...", "title": "maranānussati", "first": "'recollection of death', is one of the 10 recollections treated in \ndetail in Vis.M. VIII:", "links": [] } }, { "file": "meat_eating.htm", "info": { "title2": "meat-eating", "titleEn2": "Just as the karmical", "titleEn": "Just as the karmical, i.e....", "title": "meat", "first": " Just as the karmical, i.e. moral, quality of any action is determined by \nthe quality of volition (cetanā) underlying it, and independently of this \nvolition nothing whatever can be called karmically wholesome or unwholesome \n(kusala, akusala), just so it is with the merely external act of \nmeat-eating, this being as such purely non-moral, i.e. karmically neutral \n(avyākata).", "links": [] } }, { "file": "micchaa_magga.htm", "info": { "title2": "micchā-magga", "titleEn2": "Atthangika: the eightfold wrong path", "titleEn": "Atthangika: the 'eightfold wrong path',...", "title": "micchā", "first": " Atthangika: the 'eightfold wrong path', i.e. ", "links": [] } }, { "file": "muula.htm", "info": { "title2": "mūla", "titleEn2": "roots", "titleEn": "'roots', also called hetu (q.v.;...", "title": "múla", "first": "'roots', also called hetu (q.v.; s.\n paccaya,\n1), are those conditions which through their presence determine the actual \nmoral quality of a volitional state (cetanā), and the consciousness and \nmental factors associated therewith, in other words, the quality of \nkarma. 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'name and form'): 'mind-and-body', mentality and corporeality. It \nis the 4th link in the dependent origination (s. paticcasamuppāda\n3, 4) where it is conditioned by consciousness, and on its part is the condition \nof the sixfold sense-base. In two texts (D. 14, 15), which contain variations of \nthe dependent origination, the mutual conditioning of consciousness and \nmind-and-body is described (see also S. XII, 67), and the latter is said to be a \ncondition of sense-impression (phassa); so also in Sn. 872.", "links": [ "paticca_samuppaada.htm", "visuddhi.htm", "vipassanaa.htm", "naama.htm", "panca_vokaara_bhava.htm", "paticca_samuppaada.htm" ] } }, { "file": "naanadassana_vis.htm", "info": { "title2": "ñānadassana-visuddhi", "titleEn2": "purification of knowledge and vision", "titleEn": "'purification of knowledge and vision',...", "title": "ñānadassana", "first": "'purification of knowledge and vision', is the last of the 7 \npurifications and a name for path-knowledge (maggañāna),\ni.e. the penetrating realization of the path of Stream-winning, \nOnce-returning, Non-returning or Arahatship. Vis.M. XXII furnishes a detailed \nexplanation of it (s. visuddhi, VII).", "links": [ "visuddhi.htm", "abhinna.htm" ] } }, { "file": "nekkhamma.htm", "info": { "title2": "nekkhamma", "titleEn2": "freedom from sensual lust", "titleEn": "'freedom from sensual lust', renunciation....", "title": "nekkhamma", "first": "'freedom from sensual lust', renunciation.\n\n", "links": [ "paramii.htm", "magga.htm" ] } }, { "file": "neyya.htm", "info": { "title2": "neyya", "titleEn2": "requiring guidance", "titleEn": "'requiring guidance', is said of...", "title": "neyya", "first": "'requiring guidance', is said of a person \"who through advice and \nquestioning, through wise consideration, and through frequenting noble-minded \nfriends, having intercourse with them, associating with them, gradually comes to \npenetrate the truth\" (Pug. 162). Cf. \nugghatitaññū.", "links": [ "ugghatitannu.htm" ] } }, { "file": "neyyattha_dh.htm", "info": { "title2": "neyyattha-dhamma", "titleEn2": "A teaching the meaning of which is implicit", "titleEn": "A 'teaching the meaning of...", "title": "neyyattha", "first": " A 'teaching the meaning of which is implicit, or has to be inferred' as \ncontrasted with a 'teaching with an explicit or evident meaning' \n(nītattha-dhamma). ", "links": [ "paramattha.htm" ] } }, { "file": "nibbaana.htm", "info": { "title2": "Nibbāna", "titleEn2": "(Sanskrit nirvāna): lit. extinction (nir\n+ √ va", "titleEn": "(Sanskrit nirvāna): lit. 'extinction' (nir\n+...", "title": "Nibbāna", "first": " (Sanskrit nirvāna): lit. 'extinction' (nir\n+ √ va, to cease blowing, to become \nextinguished); according to the commentaries, 'freedom from desire' (nir+ \nvana). Nibbāna constitutes the highest and ultimate goal of all Buddhist \naspirations, i.e. absolute extinction of that life-affirming will manifested as \ngreed, hate and delusion, and convulsively clinging to existence; and therewith \nalso the ultimate and absolute deliverance from all future rebirth, old age, \ndisease and death, from all suffering and misery. Cf. Parinibbāna.", "links": [ "parinibbaana.htm", "upaadi.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "sama_siisii.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "niivarana.htm", "info": { "title2": "nīvarana", "titleEn2": "hindrances", "titleEn": "'hindrances', are 5 qualities which...", "title": "nívarana", "first": "'hindrances', are 5 qualities which are obstacles to the mind and blind \nour mental vision. In the presence of them we cannot reach \nneighbourhood-concentration (upacāra-samādhi) and full concentration \n(appanā-samādhi), and are unable to discern clearly the truth. They are:", "links": [ "vicikicchaa.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm" ] } }, { "file": "nimitta.htm", "info": { "title2": "nimitta", "titleEn2": "mark", "titleEn": "mark, sign; image; target, object;...", "title": "nimitta", "first": " mark, sign; image; target, object; cause, condition. These meanings are \nused in, and adapted to, many contexts of which only the doctrinal ones are \nmentioned here.", "links": [ "kasina.htm", "samaadhi.htm", "karma.htm", "siila.htm", "ceto_vimutti.htm", "vimokkha.htm", "asubha.htm" ] } }, { "file": "nipphanna_ruupa.htm", "info": { "title2": "nipphanna-rūpa", "titleEn2": "produced corporeality", "titleEn": "'produced corporeality', is identical with...", "title": "nipphanna", "first": " 'produced corporeality', is identical with rūpa-rūpa, \n'corporeality proper', i.e. material or actual corporeality, as contrasted with \n'unproduced corporeality' (anipphanna-rūpa),\nconsisting of mere qualities or modes of corporeality, e.g. impermanence, etc., \nwhich are also enumerated among the 28 phenomena of the corporeality group. ", "links": [ "khandha.htm" ] } }, { "file": "niraya.htm", "info": { "title2": "niraya", "titleEn2": "lit. the downward-path", "titleEn": "lit. 'the downward-path', the nether...", "title": "niraya", "first": " lit. 'the downward-path', the nether or infernal world, usually \ntranslated by 'hell', is one of the 4 lower courses of existence (apāya). ", "links": [ "apaaya.htm" ] } }, { "file": "nirodha_samaapatti.htm", "info": { "title2": "nirodha-samāpatti", "titleEn2": "attainment of extinction (S. XIV", "titleEn": "'attainment of extinction' (S. XIV,...", "title": "nirodha", "first": "'attainment of extinction' (S. XIV, 11), also called \nsaññā-vedayita-nirodha, 'extinction of feeling and perception', is the \ntemporary suspension of all consciousness and mental activity, following \nimmediately upon the semi-conscious state called 'sphere of \nneither-perception-nor-non-perception' (s. jhāna, 8). The absolutely \nnecessary pre-conditions to its attainment are said to be perfect mastery of all \nthe 8 absorptions (jhāna), as well as the previous attainment of Anāgāmī \nor Arahantship (s. ariya-puggala).", "links": [ "jhaana.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "sankhaara.htm" ] } }, { "file": "nissaya.htm", "info": { "title2": "nissaya", "titleEn2": "foundation. The 2 wrong foundations of morality are", "titleEn": "'foundation'. The 2 wrong foundations...", "title": "nissaya", "first": "'foundation'. The 2 wrong foundations of morality are ", "links": [] } }, { "file": "niyaama.htm", "info": { "title2": "niyāma", "titleEn2": "the fixedness of law regarding all things; cf.\ntathatā. -", "titleEn": "the 'fixedness of law' regarding...", "title": "niyāma", "first": " the 'fixedness of law' regarding all things; cf.\ntathatā. - ", "links": [ "tathataa.htm", "vinnaana_kicca.htm" ] } }, { "file": "niyata_miccha.htm", "info": { "title2": "niyata-micchāditthi", "titleEn2": "wrong views with fixed destiny", "titleEn": "'wrong views with fixed destiny',...", "title": "niyata", "first": "'wrong views with fixed destiny',\n\n", "links": [ "ditthi.htm" ] } }, { "file": "niyata_puggala.htm", "info": { "title2": "niyata-puggala", "titleEn2": "a person with a fixed destiny", "titleEn": "a 'person with a fixed...", "title": "niyata", "first": " a 'person with a fixed destiny', may be either ", "links": [ "anantarika_kamma.htm", "niyata_miccha.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "samyojana.htm" ] } }, { "file": "ojaa.htm", "info": { "title2": "ojā", "titleEn2": "nutriment (synonym of āhāra", "titleEn": "'nutriment' (synonym of āhāra, q.v.),...", "title": "ojā", "first": "'nutriment' (synonym of āhāra, q.v.), is one of those 8 minimal \nconstituent parts, or qualities, of all corporeality, to wit: the solid, liquid, \nheat, motion; colour, odour, taste and nutriment.", "links": [ "ahara.htm", "ruupa_kalaapa.htm" ] } }, { "file": "okkanti.htm", "info": { "title2": "okkanti", "titleEn2": "conception", "titleEn": "'conception', lit. 'descent', designates the...", "title": "okkanti", "first": "'conception', lit. 'descent', designates the appearance of the embryo in \nthe mother's womb, i.e. the beginning of the birth process (jāti, q.v.). ", "links": [ "jaati.htm" ] } }, { "file": "opapaatika.htm", "info": { "title2": "opapātika", "titleEn2": "lit. accidental (from upapāta", "titleEn": "lit. 'accidental' (from upapāta,\naccident; not...", "title": "opapātika", "first": " lit. 'accidental' (from upapāta,\naccident; not from upapatti, as PTS Dict. has); 'spontaneously born', \ni.e. born without the instrumentality of parents. 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There it is shown how this development takes place \ngradually", "titleEn": "Gradual development of the Eightfold...", "title": "progress of the disciple", "first": " Gradual development of the Eightfold Path in the: In many suttas occurs \nan identical passage that outlines the gradual course of development in the \nprogress of the disciple. 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It is the foundation of the whole \nBuddhist practice, and therewith the first of the 3 kinds of training (sikkhā) \nthat form the 3-fold division of the 8-fold Path (s. \nmagga), i.e. morality, concentration and wisdom.", "links": [ "cetanaa.htm", "karma.htm", "sikkhaa.htm", "magga.htm", "karma.htm", "karma.htm", "magga.htm", "sikkhaa_pada.htm", "caaritta_siila.htm", "anatta.htm" ] } }, { "file": "siilabbata_paraamaasa.htm", "info": { "title2": "sīlabbata-parāmāsa and -upādāna: ", "titleEn2": "attachment (or clinging) to mere rules and ritual", "titleEn": "'attachment (or clinging) to mere...", "title": "sílabbata", "first": "'attachment (or clinging) to mere rules and ritual', is the 3rd of the 10 \nfetters (samyojana), and one of the 4 kinds \nof clinging (upādāna). 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They are constituents of the 1st absorption (s. \njhāna), but absent in the higher \nabsorptions.", "links": [ "sankhaara.htm", "jhaana.htm", "vitakka.htm" ] } }, { "file": "viveka.htm", "info": { "title2": "viveka", "titleEn2": "detachment", "titleEn": "'detachment', seclusion, is according to...", "title": "viveka", "first": "'detachment', seclusion, is according to Niddesa, of 3 kinds: ", "links": [] } }, { "file": "viveka_sukha.htm", "info": { "title2": "viveka-sukha", "titleEn2": "happiness of detachment", "titleEn": "'happiness of detachment', or aloofness...", "title": "viveka", "first": "'happiness of detachment', or aloofness (s. prec). ", "links": [] } }, { "file": "vodaana.htm", "info": { "title2": "vodāna", "titleEn2": "cleansing", "titleEn": "'cleansing', may refer either to...", "title": "vodāna", "first": "'cleansing', may refer either to (1) morality (sīla),\nor (2) concentration (samādhi), or (3) wisdom (paññā).", "links": [ "vipatti.htm", "jhaana.htm", "vutthaana_gaaminaa_vip.htm", "visuddhi.htm" ] } }, { "file": "votthapana.htm", "info": { "title2": "votthapana-citta", "titleEn2": "determining consciousness", "titleEn": "'determining consciousness', is that mindelement...", "title": "votthapana", "first": "'determining consciousness', is that mindelement (functioning \nindependently of karma; s. Tab. I, 70) which in the process of sense-perception \nperforms the function of determining the sense-object. ", "links": [ "vinnaana_kicca.htm" ] } }, { "file": "vutthaana_gaaminaa_vip.htm", "info": { "title2": "vutthāna-gāminī-vipassanā", "titleEn2": "insight leading to (path) ascent. It is also called cleansing \n(vodāna", "titleEn": "'insight leading to (path) ascent'....", "title": "vutthāna", "first": "'insight leading to (path) ascent'. It is also called 'cleansing' \n(vodāna, q.v.), and according to Pts.M. II, 64, it is a name for 3 kinds of \ninsight-knowledge, namely: knowledge consisting in the desire for deliverance \n(muccitu-kamyatā-ñāna; s. visuddhi\nVI 6); reflecting-contemplation-knowledge (patisankhānupassanā-ñāna; ib. \nVI, 7); and knowledge consisting in equanimity regarding all formations \n(sankhārupekkhā-ñāna;\ns. visuddhi VI, 8).", "links": [ "vodaana.htm", "visuddhi.htm", "ariya_puggala.htm", "khandha.htm" ] } }, { "file": "yamaka_paati.htm", "info": { "title2": "yamaka-pātihāriya", "titleEn2": "twin miracle.", "titleEn": "'twin miracle'....", "title": "yamaka", "first": "'twin miracle'. ", "links": [] } } ] ```