Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

holy life, the task is accomplished, and there is no more of this to come.' "The 'faculty of highest knowledge' (aññ' indriya = aññá-indriya; s. indriya), however, is present in six of theeight stages of holiness, that is, beginning with the fruition of Stream-Winning (sotápatti-phala) up to thepath of Holiness (arahatta-magga). See Dhs. (PTS) 362-364, 505, 553; Indriya Vibhanga; "Path" 162.aññámañña-paccaya: 'mutuality-condition,' is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.).aññátávindriya: 'the faculty of one who knows'; s. indriya, 22.aññindriya: 'the faculty of highest knowledge'; s. aññá and indriya, 21.anottappa: s. ahirika.answering questions: 4 ways of: s. pañhá-byákarana.antará-parinibbáyí: is one of the 5 kinds of Non-Returners or Anágámí (q.v.).antinomies: s. ditthi.anuloma-citta: 'adaptation-moment of consciousness', denotes the third of the 4 moments of impulsion(javana, q.v.) flashing up immediately before either reaching the absorptions (jhána, q.v.) or thesupermundane paths (s. ariya-puggala). These 4 moments of impulsion are: the preparation (parikamma),access (upacára), adaptation (anuloma) and maturity (gotrabhú) moments. For further details, s. javana,gotrabhú.anuloma-ñána: 'adaptation-knowledge' or conformity-knowledge, is identical with the 'adaptation-to-truthknowledge', the last of 9 insight-knowledges (vipassaná-ñána) which constitute the purification ofknowledge and vision of the path-progress' (s. visuddhi VI, 9). Cf. Vis.M. XXI.anupádisesa-nibbána: see Nibbána, upádi.anupassaná: 'contemplation' - 4 fold: s. satipatthána - 18 fold: s. vipassaná. - 7 fold: "The sevencontemplation's: (1) Contemplating (formations) as impermanent, one abandons the perception ofpermanence. (2) Contemplating (them) as painful, one abandons the perception of happiness (to be found inthem). (3) Contemplating (them) as not self, one abandons the perception of self. (4) Becomingdispassionate, one abandons delighting. (5) Causing fading away, one abandons greed. (6) Causing cessation,one abandons originating. (7) Relinquishing, one abandons grasping" (Pts.M. I, p. 58). - See also Vis.M.XXI, 43; XXII, 114.anupubba-nirodha: The 9 'successive extinctions', are the 8 extinctions reached through the 8 absorptions(jhána, q.v.) and the extinction of feeling and perception' (s. nirodha-samápatti), as it is said in A. IX, 31 andD. 33:"In him who has entered the 1st absorption, the sensuous perceptions (káma-saññá) are extinguished. Havingentered the 2nd absorption, thought-conception and discursive thinking (vitakkavicára, q.v.) areextinguished. Having entered the 3rd absorption, rapture (píti, q.v.) is extinguished. Having entered the 4thabsorption, in-and-out breathing (assása-passása, q.v.) are extinguished. Having entered the sphere ofboundless space (ákásánañcáyatana), the corporeality perceptions (rúpa-saññá) are extinguished. Havingentered the sphere of boundless consciousness (viññánañcáyatana), the perception of the sphere of boundlessspace is extinguished. Having entered the sphere of nothingness (ákiñcaññáyatana), the perception of thesphere of boundless consciousness is extinguished. Having entered the sphere ofneither-perception-nor-non-perception (neva-saññá-násaññáyatana) the perception of the sphere ofnothingness is extinguished. Having entered the extinction of perception and feeling (saññávedayitanirodha)perception and feeling are extinguished." For further details, s. jhána, nirodha-samápatti.