BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - N -

  • nāma
  • nāma-kāya
  • nāma-rūpa
  • ñāna: 'knowledge, comprehension, intelligence, insight', is a synonym for paññā; see also vipassanā.
  • ñānadassana-visuddhi
  • nānatta-saññā: The 'variety (or multiformity) - perceptions are explained under jhāna.
  • ñāna-vipphārā iddhi: the 'power of penetrating knowledge', is one of the magical powers (iddhi).
  • ñāta-pariññā: 'full understanding (or comprehension) of the known', is one of the 3 kinds of full understanding (pariññā).
  • natthika-ditthi: 'nihilistic view' (a doctrine that all values are baseless, that nothing is knowable or can be communicated, and that life itself is meaningless), s. ditthi.
  • natthi-paccaya: 'absence-condition', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  • natural morality: pakati-sīla.
  • navanga-buddha (or satthu)- sāsana: s. sāsana.
  • nava-sattāvāsa: s. sattāvāsa.
  • naya-vipassanā: s. kalāpa (2).
  • ñāya: 'right method', is often used as a name for the Noble Eightfold Path (s. magga), e.g. in the Satipatthāna Sutta (M. 10, D. 22).
  • neighbourhood-concentration: upacāra-samādhi.
  • nekkhamma
  • nesajjikanga: one of the 13 dhutanga.
  • neutral, karmically: avyākata (q.v.); n. feelings, s. vedanā.
  • n'eva-saññā-n'āsaññāyatana: The 'sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception', is the name for the fourth absorption of the immaterial sphere (arūpāvacara), a semi-conscious state, which is surpassed only by the state of complete suspense of consciousness, called 'attainment of extinction' (nirodha-samāpatti). See jhāna (8).
  • n'eva-sekha-n'āsekha: 'neither in training nor beyond training', i.e. neither learner nor master. Thus is called the worldling (puthujjana), for he is neither pursuing the 3-fold training (sikkhā) in morality, mental culture and wisdom, on the level of the first 3 paths of sanctity, nor has he completed his training as an Arahat. See sekha. - (App.).
  • neyya
  • neyyattha-dhamma
  • Nibbāna
  • nibbatti: 'arising', 'rebirth', is a synonym for patisandhi.
  • nibbedha-bhāgiya-sīla (-samādhi, -paññā): 'morality (concentration, wisdom) connected with penetration'; s. hāna-bhāgiya-sīla.
  • nibbidānupassanā-ñāna: 'contemplation of aversion', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight; s. vipassanā (4), samatha-vipassanā (2), visuddhi (VI, 5).
  • nicca-saññā (-citta,-ditthi): perception (or consciousness, or view) of permanency, is one of the 4 perversions (vipallāsa).
  • nihilistic view: natthika-ditthi; s. ditthi.
  • nīla-kasina: 'blue-kasina exercise' s. kasina.
  • nimitta
  • nimmāna-rati: the name of a class of heavenly beings of the sensuous sphere; s. deva.
  • nine abodes of beings: s. sattāvāsa.
  • ninefold dispensation: s: sāsana.
  • nippapañca: s. papañca.
  • nipphanna-rūpa
  • niraya
  • nirodha: 'extinction'; s. nirodha-samāpatti, anupubba-nirodha.
  • nirodhānupassanā: 'contemplation of extinction', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā). See ānāpānasati (15).
  • nirodha-samāpatti
  • nirutti-patisambhidā: the 'analytical knowledge of language', is one of the 4 patisambhidā.
  • nirvana: (Sanskrit= ) Nibbāna.
  • nissarana-pahāna: 'overcoming by escape', is one of the 5 kinds of overcoming (pahāna).
  • nissaya
  • nissaya-paccaya: 'support', base, foundation, is one of the 24 conditions (s. paccaya, 8).
  • nītattha-dhamma: A 'doctrine with evident meaning', contrasted with a 'doctrine with a meaning to be inferred' (neyyattha-dhamma). See also paramattha.
  • nīvarana
  • niyāma
  • niyata-micchāditthi
  • niyata-puggala
  • noble abodes: s. vihāra.
  • noble family, Passing from n.f. to n.f.: kolankola; s. Sotāpanna.
  • noble persons: ariya-puggala.
  • noble power: ariya iddhi; s. iddhi.
  • noble truths, the 4: ariya-sacca; s. sacca. - The 2-fold knowledge of the n.t.; s. sacca-ñāna.
  • noble usages, the 4: ariya-vamsa.
  • non-disappearance: avigata-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
  • non-violence: s. avihimsā.
  • not-self: s. anattā.
  • no-upādā-rūpa: 'underived corporeality', designates the 4 primary elements (mahābhūta or dhātu), as distinguished from the 'derived corporeality' (upādā-rūpa), such as the sensitive organs, etc. Cf. khandha, I.
  • nutriment: s. ojā, āhāra. - āhāra is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya) - n.- produced corporeality; s. samutthāna.

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