The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana — Th. Stcherbatsky (1927)
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nir-vikalpaka, pure sensation, devoid of any synthesis or thought-construction, 31, 141, 156. nisprapaUca, inexpressible in speech and irrealizable in concepts, = the Absolute, 42, 43, 44, 156, 187, 204.
nisyanda-phala, natural result, automatical outflow out of preceding homogeneous conditions (sabhaga-hetu ), 8, 176.
paJcsa, tenet, thesis, minor term in a syllogism, 155. pdksa-dosa, impossible thesis (=bddhita-visaya), 108.
— 240 — paksa-dharma, minor premise (= upanaya), 94. paddrtha, a thing, an entity, 190.
parata-utpatti, a break between cause and effect, production out .of something different, the Nyaya-Vaise?ika view of causality, extreme realism, involving arambha-tada q. c. and the doctrine of samavdya as a semi-substantial universal substratum, an ubiquitous, thing invented in order to bridge over the gap between a result and its material cause 101, 120, 121.
paratantra , relative (with the connotation attached to it in the Yogacara school which admits the reality of relative things obeying to causal laws). 33, 164, 189. paramartha-sat , existing in an absolute, non-relative, sense, 111, 114, 137, 141, 146, 156. paramartha-satya , absolute reality as contrasted with samvrti-satya q. c., 140. paraspara-apeksa, mutually relative, relative, 153, 164, 191, synon. Sunya, pratitya-samutpanna.
parikalpita-ldksana , see laksana nihsvabhavata.
parindma-duhkhatd , the changing, impermanent or phenomenal world, 17; synon. duhkha-satya, or duhkha , cp. duhkha-vedand suffering.
parinispanna, absolute reality in a monistic sense with the connotation attached to it in the Yo¬ gacara school, 33, 34, 189. pudgala-nairatmya — anatman q. c., 135.
pudgala, «the fleeting union of elements that make up, for a time only, an unstable individuality# (Rhys Davids, Dialogues, I, 260), synon. alma-bhava, $ant*na. Yatsiputrlyas and others assume a kind of surviving pudgala ; this tendency the forerunner of Mahayana. purusa-kara-phala (=purusena iva krta) antropomorphic result, antropomorphic conception of cau¬ sation, 176.
prthivi, the resistant hard stuff in Matter, imagined as an atomic force of resistance, 143,150,152. prati-vijilapti, the momentary awareness of the presence of an object in one’s ken, 202. prati-sankhya-nirodha , the blank created by the extinction of an element ( dharma ) through yoga, 57.
pratitya , different interpretations of the term, 85—88, 107, 200.
prafitya-samutpada, 1) in Hinayana, interconnection according to causal laws of all the elements cooperating in the formation of life, contrasted with adhitya-samutpada «production at random », synon. pratyaya-niyama = niyama = samskrtatva = dharma-sanketa, 39;
2) in Mahayana, Relativity, synon. paraspara-apeksata = svabhava-Sunyatd —Sunyatd = samvrti- 3) its general formula in Salistamba-sutra, in Hinayanistic and Mabayanistic interpretation, 123, 124; 4) avasthika or prdkarsika pr. s.utp. =12 nidana, a special case of the general law, its application to the evolution of an individual life under the influence of illusion ( avidya ) and passion as long as they arenot extinct by philosophic insight(pra/Iia)and ecstatic meditation and the mystic power (yoga) derived from it. Prenatal forces ( samskdra ) then produce a new life ( vijnana ) in a matrix, it passes through an embryonic state (i nidana 4—7), develops into full life (n. 8—10), decay and death and is continued in a new life (n. 11—12) in a new individual and bo on without an end, until Nirvana is attained, which according to strict Hinayana represents a complete Annihilation of every life (Entropy). This twelvemembered formula refers to the phenomenal world, 123, 134. pratyaksa, sense-perception or object perceived, 45, 90, 141, 156, v 159, 162, 163. pratyaya-niyama , see niyama , 179.
pratyavcksana-jndna, a special kind of Omniscience with which the Buddha, according to the Yogacaras, is endowed when representing apratisthita-nirvana q. c., 204. prapaflca, speech (=vak), the expression of conceptually differentiated reality in words, 48, 91, 156, 209, pramana-viniScaya-vada, vindication of Logic, anti-skepticism, the standpoint of Dignaga and Dharmaklrti as opposed to the Madhyamika school, 134.
— 241 — prayoga (-vdkya), formulation, syllogism, (= prayogdnta), 105. prayoga-mdrga , path of practice, the 2nd division of the Path of Salvation, 16, 18. prasanga-vdkya, deductio ad absurdum, 94.