Nyanatiloka Buddhist Dictionary

entering the 4 supermundane paths (s. ariyapuggala), i.e. skeptical doubt on reaching Sotápanship; sensuousdesire, ill-will and mental worry on reaching Anágámiship; sloth, torpor and restlessness on reachingArahatship.For their origination and their overcoming, s. A. I, 2; VI, 21; S. XLVI, 51.See The Five Mental Hindrances, by Nyanaponika Thera (WHEEL 26).niyáma: the 'fixedness of law' regarding all things; cf. tathatá. - Pañca-niyáma is a commentarial term,signifying the 'fivefold lawfulness' or 'natural order' that governs: (1) temperature, seasons and other physicalevents (utu-niyáma); (2) the plant life (bíja-n.); (3) karma (kamma-n.); (4) the mind (citta-n.), e.g. the lawfulsequence of the functions of consciousness (s. viññána-kicca) in the process of cognition; (5) certain eventsconnected with the Dhamma (dhamma-n.), e.g. the typical events occurring in the lives of the Buddhas.(App.).niyata-miccháditthi: 'wrong views with fixed destiny', are the views of uncausedness of existence(ahetuka-ditthi), of the inefficacy of action (akiriya-ditthi), and nihilism (natthika-ditthi). For details, s.ditthi; and M. 60, Com. (WHEEL 98/99). - (App.)niyata-puggala: a 'person with a fixed destiny', may be either one who has committed one of the 5 'heinousdeeds with immediate result' (ánantarika-kamma, q.v.), or one who follows 'wrong views with fixed destiny'(niyata-micchá-ditthi, q.v.), or one who has reached one of the 4 stages of holiness (s. ariya-puggala). Aboutthe latter cf. the frequent passage: "Those disciples in whom the 3 fetters (of personality-belief, scepticaldoubt and attachment to mere rules and ritual; s. samyojana) have vanished, they all have entered the stream,have forever escaped the states of woe; fixed is their destiny (niyata), assured their final enlightenment."noble abodes: s. vihára.noble family, Passing from n.f. to n.f.: kolankola; s. sotápaññá.noble persons: ariya-puggala (q.v.).noble power: ariya iddhi; s. iddhi.noble truths, the 4: ariya-sacca; s. sacca. - The 2-fold knowledge of the n.t.; s. sacca-ñána.noble usages, the 4: ariya-vamsa (q.v.).non-disappearance: avigata-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.).non-violence: s. avihimsá.not-self: s. anattá.no-upádá-rúpa: 'underived corporeality', designates the 4 primary elements (mahábhúta or dhátu), asdistinguished from the 'derived corporeality' (upádá-rúpa), such as the sensitive organs, etc. Cf. khandha, I.nutriment: s. ojá, áhára. - áhára is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.) - n.- produced corporeality; s.samutthána.A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z