BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - D -

• dāna
• dasa-(tathāgata-) bala
• dasaka-kalāpa: s. rūpa-kalāpa.
• dasa-pāramī: s. pāramī.
• dasa-puñña-kiriya-vatthu: s. puñña-kiriya-vatthu.
• death: marana. - Contemplation of °: maranānussati. - As divine messenger: deva-dūta.
• death-consciousness: cuti-citta, is one of the 14 functions of consciousness (viññāna-kicca).
• deathlessness: amata.
• death-proximate karma: maranāsaññā-kamma; s. karma.
• deciding function (of consciousness): s. viññāna-kicca.
• decline (in morality, wisdom, etc.): s. hāna-bhāgiya-sīla. - Liable to °, parihāna-dhamma.
• defilements: s. kilesa, upakkilesa. -10d. of insight: vipassanūpakkilesa, s. visuddhi VI. - Round ofd., s. vatta (1).
• deliverance
• deluded consciousness: s. Tab. I. 32, 33.
• deluded-natured: moha-carita; s. carita.
• delusion: s. moha, avijjā.
• demons' realm: asura-nikāya; s. apāya.
• departed, the spirits of the: peta.
• dependent origination: paticca samuppāda.
• derived corporeality: upādā-rūpa; further s. khandha (I. B.).
• desanā
• desire for deliverance: s. visuddhi (VI, 6).
• desireless deliverance: s. vimokkha (1).
• desirelessness, contemplation on: s. vipassanā (12).
• destiny, evil views with fixedd.: niyata-micchā-ditthi. Men with fixed d.: niyata-puggala (q.v.). See gati.
• destruction: overcoming, or liberation from, evil things through their d.; samuccheda-pahāna or samuccheda-vimutti; s. pahāna.
• destructive karma: upaghātaka-kamma; s. karma.
• detachment: viveka.
• determination: s. adhimokkha, adhitthāna.
• determining: votthapana (s. viññāna-kicca).
• determining the reality: s. vavatthāna.
• deva
• deva-dūta
• devatānussati: 'recollection of the heavenly beings'; s. anussati.
• development (mental): bhāvanā. - Effort to develop, s. padhāna. - Wisdom based ond. s. paññā. - Graduald. of the Eightfold Path in the 'progress of the disciple'.
• deviation: (from morality and understanding): vipatti.
• devotee: upāsaka.
• dhamma
• dhamma-cakka
• dhamma-desanā: 'exposition of the Doctrine (law)'; s. desanā.
• dhamma-dhātu: mind-object-element (s. dhātu).
• dhammānupassanā: 'contemplation of the mind-objects' is the last of the 4 foundations of mindfulness (satipatthāna)
• dhammānusārī: the 'dhamma-devotee', is one of the 7 noble disciples (ariya-puggala).
• dhammānussati: 'recollection of the Law', is one of the 10 recollections (anussati).
• dhamma-patisambhidā: the 'analytical knowledge of the law, is one of the 4 kinds of analytical knowledge (patisambhidā)
• dhamma-tthiti-ñāna
• dhamma-vicaya-sambojjhanga: 'investigation of the law as factor of enlightenment', is one of the 7 factors of enlightenment (bojjhanga).
• dhammāyatana: 'mind-object as base' (āyatana).
• dhana
• dhātu
• dhātu-vavatthāna
• dhutānga
• dibba-cakkhu
• dibba-loka: heavenly world; s. deva.
• dibba-sota: the 'divine ear', is one of the 6 higher powers (abhiññā).
• dibba-vihāra: s. vihāra.
• disappearance: vigata-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• disciplinary code: s. pātimokkha.
• discursive thinking: vicāra; s. vitakka-vicāra.
• disease: one of the 'divine messengers' (deva-dūta).
• disinterestedness: (regarding the whole world): s. sabbaloke anabhirati-saññā.
• dispensation: s. sāsana.
• dissociation: vippayutta-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• dissolution, contemplation of: khayānupassanā, is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā).
• dittha-dhamma-vedanīya-kamma: karma bearing fruit in this present life; s. karma.
• ditthi
• ditthi-nissita-sīla: 'morality based on wrong views'; s. nissaya.
• ditthi-ppatta: the 'vision attainer', is one of the 7 Noble Persons (ariya-puggala).
• ditthi-vipallāsa: 'perversion of views'; s. vipallāsa.
• ditthi-visuddhi: 'purification of view' is the 3rd of the 7 stages of purification (visuddhi III).
• ditth'upādāna: 'clinging to views', is one of the 4 kinds of clinging (upādāna).
• divine abode: s. vihāra.
• divine ear and eye: s. abhiññā.
• divine messengers, the 3: deva-dūta.
• doctrine of the Buddha: s. dhamma, sāsana.
• dogmatic articles, the 3: titthāyatana.
• domanassa
• domanassupavicāra: 'indulging in grief'; s. manopavicāra.
• doors of deliverance, the 3: vimokkha-dvāra; s. vimokkha I; visuddhi VI, 8.
• dosa: 'hatred', anger, is one of the 3 unwholesome, roots (mūla). -d. citta: hate consciousness; s. Tab. I (30, 31).
• dosa-carita: 'angry-or hate-natured'; s. carita.
• doubt, skeptical: vicikicchā, kankhā.
• dread, moral: ottappa s. hiri-ottappa.
• drinking: On the evil effects of drinking intoxicants, s. surāmeraya, etc.
• dry-visioned: s. sukkha-vipassaka.
• duccarita: 'evil conduct', is threefold: in deeds, words and thoughts. See kammapatha (I).
• duggati: 'woeful course' (of existence); s. gati.
• dukkha
• dukkhānupassanā: s. vipassanā.
• dukkhatā
• dukkha-patipadā: 'painful progress'; s. patipadā.
• dvi-hetuka-patisandhi: s. patisandhi.
• dwellings: Suitabled. for monks; s. senāsana. Satisfied with whateverd.; s. dhutanga.