The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana — Th. Stcherbatsky (1927)

gati, 1) motion, 115; 2) individual existence in one of the six kinds of bodies, 182. grahanaka-vakya, a short statement to be developed (vivarana) in the sequel, 99. grdhya-visaya, the prima facie object, the first moment in the cognition of an object, cp .prdpyavisaya , 141.

citta, pure consciousness, or pure sensation, manas and vijnana (sc. vijnana-skandha ) its syno¬ nyms in Hlnayana, 31, 108, cp. vijnana.

citta-mahd-bhumika (dharma), ten mental elements always represented in every conscious moment. 7, 9, cp. Central Conception, p. 100.

cetana, will, conscious volition, a purposive action (= barman q. c ), 124, 197. caitta, mental phenomenon, 173 (= citta-samprayukta-samskdra), cp. C. C. jani-kriyd, energy, function, 167, 168, ( =vyapara ).

jiidna , 1) knowledge in general in the sense of a mental phenomenon, 143; 2) definite cognition as contrasted with pure indefinite sensation (vijddna q. c), 141,149; 8) transcendental,meta¬ physical knowledge, 202; 4) Omniscience (— Tib. ye-Ses). tatsabhdga , non-active, non-operating sense faculty (= a-sva-karma-brt), cp. sabhdga, 115. tattva, absolute reality, 153 ( = tattvam cva). tathata , a Thisness », absolute reality, 47 (many synonyms). tatkaliki gaiih, the differential of a planet’s motion, 142.

duhkha, 1) vedand-duhkha, suffering; 2) parinama-duhkha, phenomenal existence ( —updddna - skandha), cp. Pessimism in Index 6.

drsti, 1) intuition, 16; 2) wrong view, ( = mithyd-drsti); 3) antinomy, 207.

drsti-marga , the path of illumination, momentary mystic intuition of the real condition of the Universe, (= yogi-pratyaksa), 16, 18, 90, 137. de&ananugata, having no extension, a point-instant, 141.

dvaidht-karana , dichotomizing (thought), thought operating by contrast of A with non-A, 147. dharma , 1) doctrine, 2) quality, 3) element of existence; hence dharma-anu-dharma a doctrine about elements or an element according to that doctrine, 183; its connotation (dharma sanketa) includes strict uniformity in nature (asmin sati idam bhavati), 135; hence the translation «norm», «normalisra» which is not quite correct since norm is niyama — dharmanam niyama = pratyaya-niyama =pratitya-samutpdda q. c.; 4) a synonym of sarnskrta-dharma and samskara q. c.; 5) in Nyaya-Vaisegika— a meritorious action (— karman)Q); in Jainism, a special ubiquitous substance, the medium of motion. dharma-kaya, the Cosmic al Body of the Buddha, i. e., the Cosmos regarded as the personifica¬ tion of the eternal Buddha, 45; divided into svabhaya-kaya, which is nitya and jOdna-kdya , which is anitya 185 n. 3; identified with Buddha’s final Nirvana, 48, when mentioned in Hinayanistic lore (e. g., D. N., III. 84 with the synonyms brahma-kaya and dharma-bhuta) it probably has no clearly Mahayanistic, sc. monistic, connotation. Synon. tathdtd.

dhdiu, has many different meanings which are summarized in the JBahu-dhatuka-sutra , the prin¬ cipal are, 1) when three are reckoned, the 3 spheres or planes of existence, of gross bodies ( kama —), of ethereal bodies (rupa —) and of immaterial ( arupa - or arupya-dhdtu) bodies, 11, 55, passim; 2) when six are reckoned, the component principles of an existence in the material worlds, sc. the four general elements of Matter ( maha-bhuta ), akasa and vijnana; this akdSa is not the asamskrta-dkaSa included in the next classification, and vijftdna here comprises all mental elements, it is also quite different from the vijndna-dKdtu of the next classification, cp. Ab. Kosa, I. 28; 3) when eighteen are reckoned, a special division of all elements of existence into 10 material and 8 spiritual ones, (cp. Central Conception, p. 9), 11, 14, 18, 56, 66, 4) dhdtu = gotra, 210. dhyana, 1) concentrated contemplation (= samddhi = yoga); 2) a mystic world where the denizens normally possess thought-concentration, 6, 7.

ndstika , when used by Buddhists as an invective means Materialism as a denial of barman i. e.

of the moral law and of every survival after death, 189. nih-svdbhdva, having no independent existence of one’s own, relative, ultimately unreal, = tuny a, 176.

niyama, Btrict uniformity in nature, norm, causality between elements of existence, cp. dharma, 179.

nvrodha-satya , 1) in Hlnayana, the reality of the Annihilation of all energies (samskara), com¬ parable with the idea of Entropy in modern science 16,17,197 n; 2) in Mahayana, the ces¬ sation of all differentiation in a monistic Universe, 190 (sarva-kalpana-ksaya). nirmdna-kdya, the apparitional body of Bnddha, Buddha in the docetic sense, 57. nirvana, cp. prec. Index. nirvana-dhatu, ditto.