Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

sense-objects but lustful desire (chandarága). On this see A. VI, 63; S. XXXV, 122, 191. - (App.).káma-bhava: 'sensuous existence'; s. bhava.káma-cchanda: 'sensuous desire', s. nívarana, chanda.káma-guna: s. káma.káma-loka: 'sensuous world', s. loka.káma-rága: 'sensuous lust', is one of the 10 fetters (samyojana, q .v .) .kámásava: s: ásava.káma-sukh'allikánuyoga: 'being addicted to sensual pleasures', is one of the 2 extremes to be avoided bythe monk; s. majjhima-patipadá.káma-tanhá: 'sensuous craving'; s. tanhá.kámávacara: 'sensuous sphere'; s. avacara.kámesu-micchácára: lit. 'wrong or evil conduct with regard to sensual things'; 'unlawful sexual intercourse'refers to adultery, and to intercourse with minors or other persons under guardianship. The abstaining fromthis unlawful act is one of the 5 moral rules (s. sikkhápada) binding upon all Buddhists. Through any othersexual act one does not become guilty of the above transgression, which is considered a great crime. Themonk, however, has to observe perfect chastity.In many Suttas (e.g. A.X., 176) we find the following explanation: "He avoids unlawful sexual intercourse,abstains from it. He has no intercourse with girls who are still under the protection of father or mother,brother, sister or relatives, nor with married women, nor female convicts, nor, lastly, with betrothed girls."kamma: (wholesome or unwholesome) action; s. karma.kamma-bhava: s. bhava, paticcasamuppáda.kammaja-rúpa: 'karma-produced corporeality'; s. samutthána.kammaññatá: 'adaptability', i.e. of corporeality (rúpassa; s. khandha, Summary I), mental factors (káya),and of consciousness (citta); cf. Tab. II.kammanta, sammá-: 'right action'; s. magga.kamma-paccaya: 'karma as condition'; s. paccaya (13).kamma-patha: 'course of action', is a name for the group of 10 kinds of either unwholesome or wholesomeactions, viz.I. The tenfold unwholesome courses of action (akusala-kamma-patha):3 bodily actions: killing, stealing, unlawful sexual intercourse;4 verbal actions: lying, slandering, rude speech, foolish babble;3 mental actions: covetousness, ill-will, evil views.Unwholesome mental courses of action comprise only extreme forms of defiled thought: thegreedy wish to appropriate others' property, the hateful thought of harming others, andpernicious views. Milder forms of mental defilement are also unwholesome, but do not