Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

ñánadassana-visuddhi: 'purification of knowledge and vision', is the last of the 7 purifications and a namefor path-knowledge (maggañána), i.e. the penetrating realization of the path of Stream-winning,Once-returning, Non-returning or Arahatship. Vis.M. XXII furnishes a detailed explanation of it (s. visuddhi,VII).In A. IV, 41 ñánadassana apparently means the divine eye (dibbacakkhu, s. abhiññá), being producedthrough concentrating the mind on light.nánatta-saññá: The 'variety (or multiformity) - perceptions are explained under jhána (q.v.).ñána-vipphárá iddhi: the 'power of penetrating knowledge', is one of the magical powers (iddhi, q.v.).ñáta-pariññá: 'full understanding (or comprehension) of the known', is one of the 3 kinds of fullunderstanding (pariññá q.v.).natthika-ditthi: 'nihilistic view' (a doctrine that all values are baseless, that nothing is knowable or can becommunicated, and that life itself is meaningless), s. ditthi.natthi-paccaya: 'absence-condition', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.).natural morality: pakati-síla (q.v.).navanga-buddha (or satthu)- sásana: s. sásana.nava-sattávása: s. sattávása.naya-vipassaná: s. kalápa (2).ñáya: 'right method', is often used as a name for the Noble Eightfold Path (s. magga), e.g. in the SatipatthánaSutta (M. 10, D. 22).neighbourhood-concentration: upacára-samádhi (q.v.) .nekkhamma: 'freedom from sensual lust', renunciation. Though apparently from nir + √ kram, 'to go forth(into the homeless state of a monk)', this term is in the Páli texts nevertheless used as if it were derived fromkáma, lust, and always as an antonym to káma. It is one of the perfections (s. páramí). N. sankappa, thoughtfree from lust, or thought of renunciation, is one of the 3 kinds of right thought (sammá-sankappa), the 2ndlink of the Noble Eightfold Path (s. magga, 2), its antonym being kámasankappa, lustful thought.nesajjikanga: one of the 13 dhutanga (q.v.).neutral, karmically: avyákata (q.v.); n. feelings, s. vedaná.n'eva-saññá-n'ásaññáyatana: The 'sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception', is the name for thefourth absorption of the immaterial sphere (arúpávacara), a semi-conscious state, which is surpassed only bythe state of complete suspense of consciousness, called 'attainment of extinction' (nirodha-samápatti, q.v.).See jhána (8).n'eva-sekha-n'ásekha: 'neither in training nor beyond training', i.e. neither learner nor master. Thus is calledthe worldling (puthujjana, q.v.), for he is neither pursuing the 3-fold training (sikkhá q.v.) in morality, mentalculture and wisdom, on the level of the first 3 paths of sanctity, nor has he completed his training as anArahat. See sekha. - (App.).neyya: 'requiring guidance', is said of a person "who through advice and questioning, through wiseconsideration, and through frequenting noble-minded friends, having intercourse with them, associating withthem, gradually comes to penetrate the truth" (Pug. 162). Cf. ugghatitaññú.