The Connected Discourses of the Buddha

by Bhikkhu Bodhi

sampajañña clear comprehension

  sampajāna clearly comprehending

  samparāyika pertaining to the future life

  sampasādana confidence

  samphappalāpa idle chatter

  samphassa contact

  sambuddha enlightened

  sambojjhaṅga factor of enlightenment

  sambodha, sambodhi enlightenment

  sambhava origination

  sammatta rightness

  sammasa exploration

  sammā right, correct, perfectly

  sammosa decay

  saraṇa refuge

  sarīra body

  saḷāyatana six sense bases

  sassata eternal

  sāta comfort, comfortable

  sātacca perseverance

  sāmisa carnal

  sāra substance, core

  sārāga infatuation

  sāvaka disciple

  sāsava tainted

  sikkhā training

  sikkhāpada training rule

  siloka praise

  sīla (1) virtue; (2) precept, rule

  sīlabbata rules and vows

  sīlavā virtuous

  sukha (1) happiness; (2) pleasure, pleasant (feeling)

  sukhuma subtle

  sugata (1) fortunate; (2) the Fortunate One (epithet of the Buddha)

  sugati good destination

  sucarita good conduct

  suñña empty

  suññatā emptiness

  suta learning

  suddhi purity

  supaṇṇa untranslated: a supernatural bird of prey, arch-enemy of the nāgas

  subha beauty, beautiful

  sekha trainee

  senāsana lodging

  soka sorrow

  sota (1) ear; (2) stream (of the Dhamma)

  sotāpatti stream-entry

  sotāpanna stream-enterer

  somanassa joy

  hita welfare

  hiri sense of shame

  hīna low, inferior

  hetu cause; because of (as suffix)

  Index of Subjects

  This index lists significant references only. Italicized numbers refer to page numbers of an Introduction (general or part). References may be listed under an entry even when the term itself does not appear in the text, as long as the passage is pertinent to the term of entry; for example, passages expressed by way of form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness are listed under “Aggregates,” even though the word “aggregates” may not occur in them. When a stock formulation is applied to each term in a set of categories, the reference is given only under the name of the set, not under the individual members of that set; an exception is made when these items are singled out for special treatment. Pāli equivalents are provided for all key doctrinal terms. Usually the Pāli term is given in the singular, though the English equivalent may be a plural. When two Pāli technical terms are rendered by a single English word, the two are listed as separate entries. Thus “Desire” is listed twice, corresponding to chanda and icchā.

  Abyss (pātāla)

  Acquisition(s) (upadhi) extinction of (upadhisaṅkhaya) without (nirupadhi)

  Action, right (sammā kammanta)

  Aeon (kappa)

  Aggregates (khandha), five passim; arising, vanishing, change burden, as catechism on clinging aggregates, and elements, as four truth pattern in gratification triad in how to contemplate impermanent, suffering, nonself insubstantial nature of murderous, as not yours origin and passing of surge and decline of Tathāgata, and truth of suffering, as views, and world-phenomena, as

  Aging and death (jarāmaraṇa). See too Death

  Agitation (paritassanā)

  Aids to enlightenment (bodhipakkhiyā dhammā)

  All (sabba)

  Altruistic joy (muditā)

  Anger (kodha)

  Animal realm (tiracchānayoni). See too Bad destination

  Annihilationism (ucchedavāda)

  Arahant(s); constant abiding of free from bad destinations free from tangle fulfils bases for power immeasurable no further task not necessarily one practice of mindfulness practises mindfulness of breathing relation to aggregates relation to faculties relation to sense bases unfindable without lust, hate, delusion

  Arahantship, attainment of

  Ardour (ātappa)

  Ascetic (samaṇa). See too Ascetics and brahmins

  Ascetic practices (dhutaṅga)

  Asceticism (sāmañña)

  Ascetics and brahmins (samaṇa-brāhmaṇa): bases for spiritual power, and best bound and freed cause of suffering, on consummate ones dependent origination, and elements, and faculties, and feelings, and five aggregates, and Four Noble Truths, and gain and honour, and pleasure and pain, on with foothold in Dhamma wrong livelihood, of

  Asuras

  Austerity (tapa)

  Bad destination (duggati)

  Barrenness (khila)

  Bases for spiritual power (iddhipāda) analysis of development of

  Beauty (subha)

  Being(s) (satta)

  Bhikkhu(s): consummate corrupted and uncorrupted crosser of flood disentangled gone beyond head on fire how they maintain celibacy in future instruction to irreversible in training meditator, as not to be despised praiseworthy thoroughbred man, as true universal conqueror, as virtuous

  Bhikkhunī(s)

  Birth (jāti)

  Bodhisatta

  Body (kāya) afflictions of contemplation of impurity of. See too Form

  Bond (yoga). See too Security from bondage

  Bondage (bandha, bandhana)

  Brahmā world (brahmaloka)

  Brahmā(s) passim

  Brahmin(s) arahant as Buddha as. See too Ascetics and brahmins

  Brahminhood

  Breakthrough (abhisamaya): dependent origination, to Dhamma, to Four Noble Truths, to

  Buddha: awakens to truths best of bipeds best of speakers can live for an aeon a compassionate teacher confirmed confidence in decision to teach devoid of lust difference from arahant discoverer of path eye of fearless final Nibbāna of goes to brahmā world good friend good report about ill in old age light of world modes of teaching ploughman, as recollection of refuge, as rejects impure food reveres Dhamma seen through Dhamma sets Dhamma Wheel in motion veneration of without transgression wounded. See too Tathāgata

  Careful attention (yoniso manasikāra)

  Careless attention (ayoniso manasikāra)

  Cessation of perception and feeling (saññāvedayitanirodha),

  Clear comprehension (sampajañña)

  Clinging (upādāna):

  Cloud devas (valāhaka),

  Compassion (anukampā)

  Compassion (karuṇā, kāruñña)

  Conceit (māna); “ am,” underlying tendency to

  Conceiving (maññanā, maññita)

  Concentration (samādhi), basis for spiritual power, as Dhamma, offaculty of; mindfulness of breathing, by path to unconditioned; right, signless skills inwith and without thought See too Jhānas

  Conditioned (saṅkhata)

  Confinement (sambādha)

  Confirmed confidence (aveccappasāda) passim

  Consciousness (viññāṇa) aggregate, asmaintenance of name-and-form, andnutriment, as unestablished

  Contact (phassa) diversity of emptiness, etc.ignorance, by nutriment, as

  Contentment (santuṭṭhi)

  Corruption of mind (cittass’ upakkilesa)

  Cosmologist (lokāyatika)

  Craving (taṇhā),sixfold threefold

  Danger (ādīnava)

  Death (maraṇa)army of, fear of good King of, realm of,. See too Aging-and-death

  Deathless (amata)

  Decline (parihāna)

  Defilement (saṅkilesa)

  Delight (nandī)destruction oflust, and seeking,

  Delight (rati, abhirati)

  Deliverance (vimokkha). See too Liberation

  Dependent origination (paṭicca-samuppāda), passimabstra
ct formula ofanalysis of Buddha’s enlightenment, and dependently arisen states middle teaching, as

  Desire (chanda):accomplishment inbasis for spiritual power, as

  Desire (icchā)

  Destruction of life (pāṇātipāta)

  Detrimental things (okkamaniyā dhammā)

  Devas, devatās passim

  Dhamma, brings happinessBuddha’s decision to teach, by middle,confidence incounterfeit ofdirectly visible element ofgood, ofhonoured by Buddhas listening tolongevity ofmirror of practitioner ofrecollection ofrefuge, asseeing it one sees Buddha speaker on stability ofstableness oftaught discriminatelythreefold goodness ofwell expounded

  Dhamma-follower (dhammānusārī),

  Diligence (appamāda)

  Direct knowledge (abhiññā),

  Discontent (arati)

  Discourses (sutta)

  Discrimination of states (dhammavicaya). See too Enlightenment factors

  Discrimination(s) (vidhā)

  Dispassion (virāga). See too Revulsion

  Dissatisfaction (anabhirati)

  Divine ear (dibbasota)

  Divine eye (dibbacakkhu)

  Doubt (vicikicchā). See too Hindrances

  Dyad (dvaya)

  Edible food (kabaliṅkārāhāra),

  Effort, right (sammā vāyāma),

  Element(s) (dhātu), aggregates as character traits asconditionality as Dhamma, of,diversity of fourfold ignorance, of sevenfold sixfold,

  Emancipation (nimokkha)

  Emptiness (suññatā)

  Energy (viriya) basis for spiritual power, as enlightenment factor offaculty of

  Enlightenment (bodha, sambodha) path tostates conducive tosteps to

  Enmity (vera),

  Equanimity (upekkhā): carnal and spiritual divine abode, as enlightenment factor of,

  Escape (nissaraṇa)

  Establishments of mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna) passimanalysis of development of mindfulness of breathing and one-way path, as,origination and passing of See too Mindfulness

  Eternalism (sassatavāda)

  Existence (bhava), conduit todelight in

  Exploration, inward (antara sammasa)

  Factors of enlightenment (bojjhaṅga) passim arousing and calmingcuring illness by fourteenfold nutriment for sequential unfolding of why called thus

  Faculties (indriya): affective cognitivesense (see too Sense bases; Restraint of the senses); sex and lifespiritual

  Faith (saddhā) accomplished in faculty of going by

  Faith-follower (saddhānusārī)

  Fear (bhaya)

  Fear of wrongdoing (ottappa)

  Fearful animosities (verabhaya)

  Feeling (vedanā) passim aggregate, asarahant’s experience of conditioned, as diversity of faculties of underlying tendencies and, See too Aggregates; Dependent origination; Sense bases

  Fetter(s) (saṃyojana) higher ower

  Final knowledge (aññā)

  Fire element (tejodhātu)

  Flood (ogha)

  Food, . See too Edible food; Moderation in eating; Nutriments

  Fool (bāla)

  Form (rūpa), . See too Aggregates; Name-and-form; Sense bases

  Formations (saṅkhāra). See too Life formation; Vital formation; Volitional formations

  Fortitude (thāma)

  Foulness (asubha)

  Four Noble Truths (cattāri ariyasaccāni) analysis of functions regardingseeing one, one sees all why called thus

  Fruits (phala): four one of two seven

  Full understanding (pariññā) aggregates, of body, etc., of clinging, of,course, of searches, etc., of sense bases, of suffering, of

  Gain, honour, praise (lābhasakkārasiloka)

  Gandhabbas

  Generosity (cāga)

  Gentleness (soracca)

  Ghosts, domain of (pettivisaya)

  Giving (dāna)

  Gladness (pāmojja)

  Good conduct (sucarita)

  Good destination (sugati)

  Good friendship (kalyāṇamittatā)

  Gratification (assāda)

  Gratitude (kataññutā)

  Great man (mahāpurisa)

  Greed (lobha) greed, hatred, delusion (lobha dosa moha). See too Lust, hatred, delusion

  Happiness (sukha)

  Harmfulness (vihiṃsā)

  Harmlessness (avihiṃsā)

  Heaven (sagga). See too Good destination

  Hell (niraya). See too Bad destination

  Hindrances (nīvaraṇa), passim

  Holy life (brahmacariya) Noble Eightfold Path aswhy lived under the Buddha

  Honesty (soceyya)

  Human beings (manussa)

  I am (asmi)

  I-making and mine-making (ahaṅkāra mamaṅkāra)

  Identity (sakkāya)

  Identity view (sakkāyadiṭṭhi)

  Ignorance (avijjā) aggregates, regarding -contact dependent origination, in element of Four Noble Truths, regarding sense bases, regarding

  Ill will (byāpāda). See too Hindrances

  Illness

  Impermanence (anicca) feelings, of formations, of perception of. See too Aggregates: impermanent, suffering, nonself; Sense bases: impermanent, suffering, nonself

  Individual existence (attabhāva)

  Inefficacy of action, doctrine of (akiriyavāda)

  Infinity of consciousness, base of (viññāṇañcāyatana)

  Infinity of space, base of (ākāsānañcāyatana)

  Insight (vipassanā)

  Intention (saṅkappa): lustful unwholesome

  Investigation (vīmaṃsā)See too Bases for spiritual power

  Jhāna(s)

  Kammaoldresults of

  Khattiya

  Knots (gantha)

  Knowledge (ñāṇa): entailment, offorty-four cases of Nibbāna, ofnoble others’ minds, of personal the principle, of seventy-seven cases of stability of Dhamma, of. See too Direct knowledge; Final knowledge; Knowledge and vision

  Knowledge and vision (ñāṇadassana): conditions for of things as they really aresuperhuman

  Language, pathways of (niruttipatha)

  Lay follower (upāsaka)

  Laypeople, association with

  Liberated by wisdom (paññāvimutta)

  Liberated in both ways (ubhatobhāgavimutta)

  Liberation (vimutti) from taints lovingkindness, by mind, of noble taintless unshakable

  Life (jīvita, āyu) faculty formation, . See too Vital formation

  Light: element (ābhādhātu) in the world (pajjota) perception of (ālokasaññā)

  Livelihood: right (sammā ājīva) wrong (micchā ājīva)

  Lone-dweller (ekavihārī)

  Lovingkindness (mettā)

  Lust (rāga). See too Delight: lust, and; Desire: lust, and; Lust, hatred, delusion

  Lust, hatred, delusion (rāga dosa moha) destruction ofremoval of See too Greed, hatred, delusion

  Meditators (jhāyī)

  Merit (puñña) formation of for womens treams of

  Middle way (majjhimā paṭipadā) See too Noble Eightfold Path

  Mind (citta) arousing and calming of basis for spiritual power, as contemplation ofdiversity of sign of well liberated. See too Bases of spiritual power; Establishments of mindfulness

  Mind (mano). See too Faculties: sense; Sense bases

  Mindfulness (sati) body, directed to (kāyagatā sati) breathing, of (ānāpānasati)enlightenment factor offaculty of right See too Establishments of mindfulness

  Misconduct (duccarita)

  Moderation in eating (bhojane mattaññutā)

  Nāga: Buddha as. monks as class of beings

  Name (nāma)

  Name-and-form (nāmarūpa), consciousness, and,descent of