| WORD | MEANING |
| Badara: | Gross (body). |
| Badha: | Depriving of vitality |
| Badhita-visaya: | Subject being hindered |
| Bahiratman: | (Perceiving) The self in externals |
| Bahirvyapti: | External concomitance |
| Bahu (Matijnana): | Many |
| Bahu-shruta-bhakti: | Devotion to Upakhyayas or teaching Saints. |
| Bahuvidha (Matijnana): | Multiplied |
| Bala tapa: | austerities not based upon right knowledge |
| Balabhadra: | A Jaina literary type; the hero and companion of narayana |
| Balatapa: | Austerities not based upon right knowledge. |
| Bandah: | Bound |
| Bandha: | Attracted matter had actually become a part of our body, i.e., when it has become bound to the soul as the body is already bound to it. |
| Bondage | |
| Karmic bondage | |
| The matter comes and binds the soul. | |
| Bandhana: | Bondage; molecular bondage. |
| Energy that brings about karmic influx | |
| Bhagavan: | Venerable |
| Bhaikshya-shuddhi: | Purity of alms, according to the scriptures. |
| Bhajana: | Option |
| Bhakti: | Devotionalism |
| Bhanga: | Infractions committed intentionally |
| One of the seven-fold ways of statement | |
| Bhasa: | Language |
| Bhasa-samiti: | Care in speaking |
| Bhasha Agrahya-Vargana: | Speech-unrecievable-molecule |
| Bhasha-Vargana: | Speech-molecule |
| Bhasya: | Commentary |
| Bhattaraka: | Venerable ones; a class of Jaina clerics |
| Bhava: | Function |
| Internal; states of a dravya; a synonym for paryaya | |
| Bhava-jiva: | Real symbol of soul |
| Bhava-puja: | The internal aspect of a devotional practice |
| Bhava-samyaktva: | The internal aspect of true insight |
| Bhavana: | Meditation |
| Meditation. | |
| Practice; a section of the Acaranga-sutra | |
| Bhavanavasi: | Those (gods) who reside in mansions |
| Bhavasruta: | Real functioning knowledge |
| Bhavatmaka: | Real |
| Bhavatva: | Real |
| Bhavollasa: | Aroused emotions |
| Bhavya: | One who is capable of attaining moksa |
| Bhavyatva: | Capability of attaining moksa |
| Bhaya: | Fear |
| Bheda: | Disjunction |
| Bheda-vivaksa: | Desired difference |
| Bheda-vrtti: | Attitude of difference |
| Bhedopacara: | Secondary use of difference |
| Bhekta-pana: | mixing up food and drink. |
| Bhiksu-pratima: | Difficult asuterities recommended for a mendicant |
| Bhirutva-pratyakhyana: | Giving up cowardice or fear. |
| Bhoga: | Enjoyment;experience |
| Bhoga Antaraya: | obstructive of Enjoyment, of non-comsumable things. |
| Bhoga-antaraya: | Karma that restricts enjoyment |
| Bhoga-bhumi: | Realm of enjoyment |
| Bhogopabhaga-parimanavrata: | Restraint against practicing certain professions and partaking of certain foods+B832 |
| Bhojana-Katha: | Food |
| Bhumi: | Realm |
| Bhuta-anukampa: | compassion for all living beings. |
| Bhutacatustaya: | Division of four matters |
| Bija: | Seed |
| Bijapuraka-kataha: | A seed-filled fruit, probably Aegle Marmelos, used for medicinal purposes |
| Bodhi: | Enlightnenment |
| Bodhi durlabha anupreksha: | Rarity of Right path. It is difficult to attain right-belief, knowledge and conduct. |
| Bodhi-durlabha: | The rarity of enlightenment |
| Bodhisattva: | One who follows the career of a Buddha |
| Bodiya: | Naked |
| Brahma-charya: | Celibacy. |
| Brahmacari: | Celibate; one who has reached the seventh pratima |
| Brahmacarya-pratima: | The seventh pratima, in which absolute continence is observed |
| Brahman: | The unitary Absolute postualted by the Vedanta school |
| Brahmana (Brahman): | A member of the priestly caste |
| Brahmavrata: | Refraining from all illicit sexual activities |