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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.
lakkhana: 'characteristics'. For the 3 ch. of existence,
s. ti-lakkhana.
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-kasina: s. kasina.
lightness (of corporeality, mental factors and
consciousness): lahutā (q.v.).
loathsomeness (of the body): s. asubha, sivathikā,
kāyagatāsati.
lobha: 'greed', is one of the 3 unwholesome roots (mūla,
q.v.) and a synonym of rāga (q.v.) and tanhā (q.v.).
lobha-carita: 'greedy-natured', s. carita.
lofty consciousness: s. sobhana.
lohita-kasina: 'red-kasina', s. kasina.
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. samyojana.
lower worlds, the 4: apāya (q.v.).
low speech: tiracchāna-kathā (q.v.).
lust: s. rāga.
