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| Aciravatī | (river) |
| Ajaan | (Thai): Teacher; mentor. Pāli form: Ācariya. |
| Arahant | A “worthy one” or “pure one;” a person whose mind is free of defilement and thus is not destined for further rebirth. A title for the Buddha and the highest level of his noble disciples. Sanskrit form: Arhat. |
| Asura |
| Bhikkhu | Fully ordained male Buddhist monastic A bhikkhu is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. Male and female monastics are members of the Sangha. The lives of all Buddhist monastics are governed by a set of rules called the prātimokṣa or pātimokkha. (Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhikkhu) |
| Bhikkhus | A bhikkhu in training. also used as a plural for Bhikkhu See Bhikkhu |
| Bhikkhunī | A bhikkhunī or bhikṣuṇī is a fully ordained female monastic in Buddhism. Male monastics are called bhikkhus. Both bhikkhunis and bhikkhus live by the Vinaya, a set of rules. Sanscrit Bhikṣuṇī (Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhikkhuni) |
| Bodhisatta | |
| Brahmā | |
| Brahman | See the Buddha’s definition of a brahman in the Verse in Majjhima Nikāya: MN : 98 |
| Deva | Literally, “shining one.” An inhabitant of the heavenly realms |
| dhamma | (lower-case 'd} a teaching or an internal quality |
| Dhamma | (upper-case 'D } (1) Event; action; (2) a phenomenon in and of itself; (3) mental quality; (4) doctrine, teaching; (5) nibbāna (although there are passages describing nibbāna as the abandoning of all dhammas). Sanskrit form: Dharma. Often used in the form of Dhamma & Vinaya See also Vinaya |
| dukkaṭa |
| Ganges | (river) |
| Gandhabbas |
| hungry ghost |
| Jhāna | Mental absorption. A state of strong concentration focused on a single sensation or mental notion. This term is derived from the verb jhāyati, which means to burn with a steady, still flame. Sanskrit form: Dhyāna. heightened mental states providing a pleasant abiding in the here & now 4 in number - 1st : pleasure born of seclusion, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation - 2nd : pleasure born of concentration, unification of awareness free from directed thought & evaluation — internal assurance - 3rd : the noble ones declare, ‘Equanimous & mindful, he has a pleasant abiding.’ - 4th : purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain |
| Kamma | Intentional act. Sanskrit form: Karma |
| kahāpaṇa | a measure of "money" |
| Kāsi | |
| Khandha | Aggregate; heap; pile. Sanskrit form: Skandha |
| Kathina | privileges |
| Koliyans |
| Licchavis |
| Mahī | (river) |
| Māra |
| Pajāpati | See MN49 footnote 2 |
| papañca | See the Introduction to MN18 for a discussion of this term. |
| Pāṭimokkha |
| Sakyan | Satipaṭṭhāna|
| Samaṇa | Contemplative. Literally, a person who abandons the conventional obligations of social life in order to find a way of life more “in tune” (sama) with the ways of nature. |
| Saṁsāra | Transmigration The process of wandering through repeated states of becoming, with their attendant death and rebirth. |
| Saṅgha | On the conventional (sammati) level, this term denotes the communities of Buddhist monks and nuns. On the ideal (ariya) level, it denotes those followers of the Buddha, lay or ordained, who have attained at least stream-entry. |
| Saṅghādisesa | offense |
| Sarabhū | (river) |
| Satipaṭṭhāna | See the discussion in the Introduction to MN 10 |
| sugata | a span-measure - 25 cm |
| Sutta | Discourse. Sanskrit form: Sūtra |
| Tathāgata | Literally, “one who is truly gone (tatha-gata)” or “one who has become authentic (tatha-āgata),” an epithet used in ancient India for a person who has attained the highest religious goal. In Buddhism, it usually denotes the Buddha, although occasionally it also denotes any of his arahant disciples. |
| Uposatha | day |
| Videha | continents |
| Vinaya | The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text Often used in the form of Dhamma & Vinaya See also Dhamma |
| World | See note 19 of MN10 for a disscussion on the meaning of this word. |
| Yamunā | (river) |
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