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.

2 terms

Pāpaपाप
Demerit — inauspicious karma.
All four destructive karmas plus the inauspicious varieties of the others.
Chapter 6Chapter 8
Tattvaतत्त्व
Reality-category; one of the seven fundamentals.
Jīva, ajīva, āsrava, bandha, saṃvara, nirjarā, mokṣa. Adding puṇya and pāpa gives the nine padārthas of the later tradition.
Chapter 1