Word glossary
Terms and definitions
Every technical term used in this portal, with a short gloss, a longer note, and the chapters where it matters.
3 terms
- Audayikaऔदयिक
- State arising from the rise (operation) of karma.
- Twenty-one kinds, including the four gatis, four kaṣāyas, three vedas and six leśyās. This is the state in which most worldly experience occurs.
- Chapter 2
- Gatiगति
- Realm of existence: hell, animal, human, celestial.
- Determined by nāma-karma. Only the human gati permits the full path to liberation.
- Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4
- Guptiगुप्ति
- Restraint of activity of mind, speech and body.
- Three in number. The negative side of saṃvara: not acting.
- Chapter 9