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lahutā: 'lightness', or 'agility', may be of 3 kinds: of
corporeality (rūpassa lahutā; s. khandha, I ), of mental factors (kāya-lahutā), and of
consciousness (citta-lahutā).
Cf. Tab. II.
lakkhaṇa: 'characteristics'. For the 3 ch. of existence,
s. ti-lakkhaṇa.
law: dhamma (q.v.).
learning, wisdom based on: s. paññā.
liberality: dāna (q.v.),
cāga
(q.v.).
liberation: s. vimokkha.
life-infatuation: s. mada.
light, perception of: s. āloka-saññā.
light-kasiṇa:
s. kasiṇa.
lightness (of corporeality, mental factors and
consciousness): lahutā
(q.v.).
loathsomeness (of the body): s. asubha, sīvathikā,
kāyagatāsati.
lobha: 'greed', is one of the 3 unwholesome roots (mūla, q.v.) and a synonym of rāga (q.v.) and taṇhā (q.v.).
lobha-carita: 'greedy-natured', s. carita.
lofty
consciousness: s. Sobhana.
lohita-kasiṇa:
'red-kasiṇa', s. kasiṇa.
loka: 'world', denotes the 3 spheres of existence
comprising the whole universe, i.e. (1) the sensuous world (kāma-loka), or the world of
the 5 senses; (2) the fine-material world (rūpa-loka), corresponding to the 4 fine-material
absorptions (s. jhāna
1-4); (3) the immaterial world (arūpa-loka),
corresponding to the 4 immaterial absorptions (s. jhāna, 5-8).
The sensuous world comprises the hells (niraya ), the animal kingdom (tiracchāna-yoni), the
ghost-realm (peta-loka), the
demon world (asura-nikāya),
the human world (manussa-loka) and
the 6 lower celestial worlds (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
immaterial world (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 the Buddhist
scriptures, as many relevant passages show.
loka-dhamma: 'worldly conditions'. "Eight things are
called worldly conditions, since they arise in connection with worldly life,
namely: gain and loss, honour and dishonour, happiness and misery, praise and
blame" (Vis.M. XXII). Cf. also A. VIII, 5.
lokiya: 'mundane', are all those states of consciousness
and mental factors - arising in the worldling, as well as in the Noble One -
which are not associated with the supermundane (lokuttara; s. the foll.) paths and fruitions of Sotāpatti, etc. See ariyapuggala, A.
lokuttara: 'supermundane', is a term for the 4 paths and 4
fruitions of Sotāpatti,
etc. (s. ariya-puggala),
with Nibbāna as ninth. Hence one speaks of '9 supermundane things' (nava-lokuttara dhamma). Cf. prec.
loving-kindness:
mettā;
s. brahmavihāra.
lower fetters, the 5: s.
saṃyojana.
lower worlds, the 4:
apāya
(q.v.).
low speech:
tiracchāna-kathā (q.v.).
lust: s. rāga.
