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Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c12.4

Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c12.4

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c12.4

*Ādikarmika*, beginner *Āpatti*, breaches of the monastic laws, hence, any offence *Āyatana*, spheres; sources or planes of the origin of senses (Tib. skye-mched) *Āryasatya*, the fourfold truth, or the fourfold method of analysis followed by the Buddhists for examining worldly things *Ālambana (ārammaṇa)*, basis, support *Ālaya-vijñāna*, the store-consciousness, the substratum of saṃsāra *Āveṇika-dharma*, it refers to the eighteen qualities which a bodhisattva acquires without any flaw (cf. Tib. chos-ma-ḥdres-pa) *Āsaya*, mental disposition, intention *Āśraya*, substratum, support *Āsrava (Āsava)*, (four) impurities