BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - W - Y -

• water-element: āpo-dhātu (s. dhātu).
• water-kasina, white-k., wind-k.: s. kasina.
• weighty karma: garuka-kamma (s. karma).
• wheel of existence: s. samsāra, vatta.
• wheel of the law: dhamma-cakka.
• will: cetanā.
• wind-element: vāyo-dhātu (s. dhātu).
• wisdom: paññā.
• woeful courses (of existence): duggati (s. gati).
• world, the 3-fold: loka.
• worldling: puthujjana.
• worldly: lokiya.
• worldly conditions, the 8: loka-dhamma.
• world-period, formation, dissolution: s. kappa.
• wrongnesses, the 10: micchatta.
• wrong path: micchā-magga.
• wrong understanding (or view), w. thought, w. speech; etc: s. micchā-magga.

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• yakkha: in popular belief, a kind of ghost, goblin or ogre. See Yakkha.
• yāma-deva: are a kind of heavenly beings of the sensuous world; s. deva.
• yamaka-pātihāriya
• yathā-bhūta-ñāna-dassana: 'the knowledge and vision according to reality', is one of the 18 chief kinds of insight (vipassanā).
• yathākammūpaga-ñāna: 'knowledge of rebirth according to one's actions'; s. abhiññā (4).
• yathāsanthatik'anga: 'the practice of being satisfied with whatever dwelling', is one of the ascetical means of purification; s. dhutanga (12).
• yoga: 'yokes, bonds', is another name for the 4 cankers (āsava) .
• yogāvacara = yogi: 'one devoted to mental training,' is in Vis.M. the usual name for the disciple cultivating mental concentration (App.).
• yokes: yoga, q.v.
• yoni: 'modes of generation.' There are 4 generation from the egg, from the mother's womb, from moisture, and spontaneous rebirth (opapātika) in heaven, hell, etc. Explained in M.12.
• yoniso manasikāra: 'thorough attention' or wise consideration': s. manasikāra.
• youth-infatuation: s. mada.
• yuganaddha: s. samatha-vipassanā, last paragraph.