Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

epetition: ásevana-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.).repression, overcoming by: vikkhambhana-pahána (s. pahána).repugnance: patigha (q.v.).resistance-perceptions: s. patigha (2a).restlessness: uddhacca (q.v.).retrospective knowledge: paccavekkhana-ñána (q.v.).reversible merit: patti-dána (q.v.).right understanding (or r. view), r. thought, etc.: s. magga.rise and fall (of phenomena): the knowledge consisting in the contemplation of r. and f., s. visuddhi VI, 1.round of rebirth: s. vatta (2), samsára. - The 3-fold r. of r. (s. vatta, 1).rukkha mulik'anga: s. dhutanga.rules and ritual, clinging to mere: (s. samyojana, upádána).ruminating-natured: vitakka-carita (s. carita).rúpa: (1) corporeality (s. khandha 1); (2) visual object (s. áyatana); (3) fine-material (s. avacara, jhána).rúpa-jjhána: s. jhána.rúpa-kalápa: 'corporeal group', material unit, designates a combination of several physical phenomenaconstituting a temporary unity. Thus, for instance, the so-called 'dead matter' forms the most primitive group,consisting only of 8 physical phenomena, called the 'pure eightfold unit' or 'octad' (suddhatthakakalápa), towit: the 4 elements (the solid, fluid, heat, motion); colour, smell, taste, nutriment (pathaví, ápo, tejo, váyo;vanna, gandha, rasa, ojá). In Vis.M., and elsewhere, it is also called ojatthamaka-kalápa, 'the octad withnutriment as the 8th factor'.The simplest form of living matter is the '9-fold vitality unit' or 'life-ennead' (jívita-navaka-kalápa), formedby adding 'vitality' to the octad. Seven decades, or units of ten (dasaka-kalápa), are formed by adding to the9-fold unit one of the following corporeal phenomena: heart (physical seat of mind), sex, eye, ear, nose,tongue or body. - See Vis.M. XVIII, 4; Compendium of Buddhist Philosophy (PTS), p. 164, 250; AtthasáliniTr., II, 413f.rúpa-káya: 'body-group', as distinguished from náma-káya, 'mind-group' (q.v.). See náma-rúpa.rúpa-kkhandha: 'corporeality group'; s. khandha (1).rúpa loka: 'fine-material world'; s. loka.rúpárammana: 'visual object', designates the external of visual physical phenomenon ('light wave') thatforms the base consciousness. Cf. áyatana (2).rúpa-rúpa = nipphanna-rúpa (q.v.).rúpávacara: s. avacara.rúpáyatana: s. áyatana (2).