Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

Home | Library | Dictionary indexBUDDHIST DICTIONARY-Llahutá:'lightness', or 'agility', may be of 3 kinds: of corporeality (rúpassa lahutá; s. khandha, I ), of mentalfactors (káya-lahutá), and of consciousness (citta-lahutá). Cf. Tab. II.lakkhana: 'characteristics'. For the 3 ch. of existence, s. ti-lakkhana.law: dhamma (q.v.).learning, wisdom based on: s. paññá.liberality: dána (q.v.), cága (q.v.).liberation: s. vimokkha.life-infatuation: s. mada.light, perception of: s. áloka-saññá.light-kasina: s. kasina.lightness (of corporeality, mental factors and consciousness): lahutá (q.v.).loathsomeness (of the body): s. asubha, sivathiká, káyagatásati.lobha: 'greed', is one of the 3 unwholesome roots (múla, q.v.) and a synonym of rága (q.v.) and tanhá (q.v.).lobha-carita: 'greedy-natured', s. carita.lofty consciousness: s. sobhana.lohita-kasina: 'red-kasina', s. kasina.loka: 'world', denotes the 3 spheres of existence comprising the whole universe, i.e. (1) the sensuous world(káma-loka), or the world of the 5 senses; (2) the fine-material world (rúpa-loka), corresponding to the 4fine-material absorptions (s. jhána 1-4); (3) the immaterial world (arúpa-loka), corresponding to the 4immaterial absorptions (s. jhána, 5-8).The sensuous world comprises the hells (niraya), the animal kingdom (tiracchána-yoni), the ghost-realm(peta-loka), the demon world (asura-nikáya), the human world (manussa-loka) and the 6 lower celestialworlds (s. deva I). In the fine-material world (s. deva II) still exist the faculties of seeing and hearing, which,together with the other sense faculties, are temporarily suspended in the 4 absorptions. In the immaterialworld (s. deva III) there is no corporeality whatsoever, only the four mental groups (s. khandha) exist there.Though the term loka is not applied in the Suttas to those 3 worlds, but only the term bhava, 'existence' (e.g.M. 43), there is no doubt that the teaching about the 3 worlds belongs to the earliest, i.e. sutta-period, of theBuddhist scriptures, as many relevant passages show.loka-dhamma: 'worldly conditions'. "Eight things are called worldly conditions, since they arise inconnection with worldly life, namely: gain and loss, honour and dishonour, happiness and misery, praise andblame" (Vis.M. XXII). Cf. also A. VIII, 5.