Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

Home | Library | Dictionary indexBUDDHIST DICTIONARY-Ppabbajjá:lit. 'the going forth', or more fully stated, 'the going forth from home to the homeless life' of amonk (agárasmá anagáriyam pabbajjá), consists in severing all family and social ties to live the pure life ofa monk, in order to realize the goal of final deliverance pointed out by the Enlightened One. Thus, p. hasbecome the name for admission as a sámanera, or novice, i.e. as a candidate for the Order of Bhikkhus, ormonks.See Going Fonh, by Sumana Samanera (WHEEL 27/28) - Ordination in Theraváda Buddhism(WHEEL 56).paccavekkhana-ñána: 'retrospective knowledge', refers to the recollected mental image obtained inconcentration, or to any inner experience just passed, as for instance, any absorption (jhána q.v.), or anysupermundane path, or fruition of the path, etc. (s. ariya-puggala). As it is said: "At the end of fruitionalconsciousness, consciousness sinks into the subconscious stream of existence (bhavanga-sota, q.v.). Then,breaking off the stream of existence, mental advertence (manodvárávajjana) arises at the mind-door, for thepurpose of retrospecting the (just passed) path-moment. Now, as soon as this stage has passed, 7 moments ofimpulsive consciousness (javana-citta), one after the other, flash up while retrospecting the path. After theyagain have sunk into the subconscious stream, there arise, for the purpose of retrospecting the fruition of thepath the moments of advertence and impulsion, during whose arising the monk is retrospecting the path,retrospecting the fruition, retrospecting the abandoned defilements, retrospecting the still remainingdefilements, retrospecting Nibbána as object .... 'This blessing have I attained' .... 'This and that defilementstill remains in me' .... 'This object have I beheld in my mind', etc." (Vis.M. XXII).paccavekkhana-suddhi: 'purity of reflection', is a name for wise consideration in using the 4 requisitesallowed to the monk, i.e. robes, food, dwelling, and medicine; s. síla (4).paccaya: 'condition', is something on which something else, the so-called 'conditioned thing', is dependent,and without which the latter cannot be. Manifold are the ways in which one thing, or one occurrence, may bethe condition for some other thing, or occurrence. In the Patthána, the last book of the Abhidhamma Pitaka(comprising 6 large vols. in the Siamese edition), these 24 modes of conditionality are enumerated andexplained, and then applied to all conceivable mental and physical phenomena and occurrences, and thustheir conditioned nature is demonstrated.The first two volumes of the Patthána have been translated into English by the Venerable U Nárada(Múlapatthána Sayadaw) of Burma, under the title Conditional Relations (Published by the Páli Text Society,London 1969, 1981). For a synopsis of this work, see Guide VII.The 24 modes of conditionality are:1. Root condition : hetu paccaya2. Object " : árammana "3. Predominance " : adhipati "4. Priority " : anantara "5. Contiguity " : samanantara "