BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - E -

• earnestness: appamāda.
• earth-element: s. dhātu (I).
• eating, knowing the measure in bhojane mattaññutā.
• effort, the 4 right e.: samma-ppadhāna; s. padhāna. Right e. s. sacca (IV 6), magga (6) . - 5 elements of e.: padhāniyanga.
• ego-entity: attā (q.v.).
• ego-belief: s. ditthi, sakkāya-ditthi, vipallāsa.
• ego-idea, ego-perception: s. vipallāsa.
• egolessness: anattā.
• eightfold path: s. magga.
• eka-bījī: 'germinating only once more', is the name for one of the 3 kinds of Stream-winners: s. Sotāpanna.
• ekāsanik'anga: the exercise of eating at one sitting, is one of the ascetic practices; s. dhutanga.
• eka-vokāra-bhava: one-group existence, is the existence of the unconscious beings (asañña-satta) as they possess only the corporeality-group. Cf. catu-vokāra-bhava, pañca-vokāra-bhava.
• elasticity (of corporeality, mental factors or consciousness): mudutā; s. khandha (Corporeality I.B.) and Tab.II.
• elders, the teaching of the: Theravāda.
• elements: dhātu. - Analysis of the 4 e.: dhātu-vavatthāna.
• emotion: 8 sources of e.: samvega-vatthu (q.v.). The 4 places rousing emotion; samvejanīya-tthāna.
• emptiness: suññatā. - Contemplation of e.: suññatānupassanā. - For emptiness of self, pertaining to the 4 truths, s. sacca.
• ends: 'attaining two ends simultaneously'; sama-sīsī.
• energy: viriya; further s. bojjhanga, bala, pāramī.
• enlightened one, the: Buddha; s. sammā-sambuddha.
• enlightenment: bodhi. - The 7 elements of e.: bojjhanga. - A being destined for e.: Bodhisatta.
• enthusiasm: pīti.
• envy: issā.
• equality-conceit: s. māna.
• equanimity: upekkhā = tatra-majjhattatā. - Knowledge consisting in e. with regard to all formations, s. visuddhi (VI, 8). - Indulging in e., s. manopavicāra.
• equilibrium of mental faculties: indriya-samatta.
• escape: nissarana (s. pahāna).
• eternity: cf. kappa.
• eternity-belief: sassata-ditthi; s. ditthi.
• exertion: see padhāna, viriya, magga (6). - Reaching Nibbāna with or without e.; s. Anāgāmi.
• existence: bhava. - The 5 groups of e.: khandha - The 4 substrata of e.: upadhi. - Courses of e.: gati. - Wheel of e.: samsāra. - Craving for e.: bhava-tanhā; s. tanhā; - The 3 characteristics of e.: ti-lakkhana.
• expression (bodily and verbal): s. viññatti.
• extinction: s. nirodha; - of craving: tanhakkhaya.
• extremes: the two e. and the middle path; s. majjhima-patipadā.
• eye: 5 kinds, s. cakkhu. - Visual organ, s. āyatana.
• eye-consciousness: cakkhu-viññāna; s. dhātu, khandha.
• eye-organ: s. āyatana.