BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - V -

• vācā: 'speech'. On right sp., s. magga (3), sacca (IV.3). - Low talk, s. tiracchāna-kathā.
• vacī-kamma: 'verbal action'; s. karma, kamma-patha.
• vacī-sankhāra
• vacī-viññatti: s. viññatti.
• vanishing, Contemplation of: vayānupassanā, is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassāna).
• vanishing and reappearing: knowledge of the v. and r. of beings according to karma, is identical with the divine eye (s. abhiññā 5).
• vāritta-sīla: 'morality consisting in avoiding' (evil things), as distinguished from 'morality consisting in performing' (good things). See caritta-varitta.
• vasī
• vatta
• vatthu
• vatthu-kāma: 'objective sensuality', the 5 sense-objects; s. kāma.
• vavatthāna
• vayānupassanā: 'contemplation of vanishing', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassāna).
• vāyo-dhātu: 'wind-element'; s. dhātu.
• vāyo-kasina 'wind-kasina', is one of the kasina exercises (kasina).
• vedanā
• vedanānupassanā: 'contemplation of feeling', is one of the 4 foundations of mindfulness (satipatthāna).
• vehapphala is the name of a class of heavenly beings in the fine-material world; s. deva.
• verbal action: vacī-kamma; s. karma.
• verbal functions of mind: vacī-sankhāra; s. sankhāra.
• vesārajja
• vibhajja-vāda
• vibhava ditthi = uccheda-ditthi; s. ditthi.
• vibhava-tanhā: 'craving for non-existence', or for self-annihilation; s. tanhā.<< /i>/li>
• vicāra: 'discursive thinking'; s. vitakka-vicāra.
• vicikicchā
• view, right: sammā-ditthi; s. ditthi, magga 1, sacca IV.1. - For wrong view, s. ditthi.
• vigata-paccaya: 'disappearance', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• vihāra
• vijjā: '(higher) knowledge', gnosis. For the 3-fold k., s. abhiññā and te-vijjā. Cf. foll.
• vijjā-carana
• vikkhambhana-pahāna: 'overcoming by repression' (or 'suspension'), is one of the 5 kinds of overcoming (pahāna).
• vikubbanā-iddhi: the 'power of transformation', is one of the magical faculties (iddhi).
• vimamsā: 'investigation, inquiry, pondering', is one of the 4 roads to power (iddhi-pāda) and one of the 4 factors of predominance (s. paccaya 3).
• vimokkha
• vimutti
• vinipāta
• viññāna
• viññāna-kicca
• viññānañcāyatana: 'sphere of boundless consciousness is a name for the 2nd meditative absorption in the immaterial sphere (s. jhāna 6).
• viññāna-tthiti
• viññatti
• vipacitaññu (or vipañcitaññu): 'one who realizes the truth after explanation.' Thus is called one who realizes the truth only after detailed explanation of that which already had been said to him in a concise form. Cf. ugghatitaññu.
• vipāka
• vipāka-paccaya: 'karma-result condition' is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• vipallāsa
• viparināmānupassanā: 'contemplation of change' (of all things), is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā).
• vipassanā
• vipassanā-yānika = sukkha-vipassaka.
• vipassanūpakkilesa: 'imperfections of insight'; s. visuddhi.
• vipatti
• vippayutta-paccaya: 'dissociation', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
• virāga
• virāgānupassanā: s. prec.
• virati
• virility: s. bhāva.
• viriya
• viriya-sambojjhanga: 'energy as factor of enlightenment', is one of the 7 factors of enlightenment (bojjhanga).
• virtue: s. sīla.
• visesa-bhāgiya-sīla: (-samādhi, -paññā): morality (concentration, wisdom) connected with progress'. For details, s. hānabhāgiya-sīla.
• visible object: s. āyatana.
• visuddhi
• vitakka
• vitakka-vicāra
• vitality: jīvitindriya; s. indriya, khandha (corporeality, mental formations), Tab. II.
• vīthi = citta-vīthi: 'process of consciousness'; s. viññānakicca.
• vivatta: 'absence of the cycle of existence' (vatta), standstill of existence, is a name for Nibbāna (s. nibbāna). - (App.).
• vivatta-kappa: s. kappa.
• vivattanānupassanā: 'contemplation of the turning away', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā). (App.).
• viveka
• viveka-sukha
• vodāna
• vohāra-desanā: 'conventional exposition', as distinguished from an explanation true in the highest sense (paramattha-desanā). It is also called sammuti-sacca (in Sanskrit samvrti). (App.).
• void-deliverance; s. ceto-vimutti.
• vokāra: s. pañca-vokāra-bhava.
• volition: cetanā.
• votthapana-citta
• vutthāna-gāminī-vipassanā
• vyāpāda: 'ill-will', is a synonym of dosa (s. mūla); it is one of the 5 hindrances (nīvarana) and one of the 10 fetters (samyojana).