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Abbhutadhamma: division of discourses relating to wonders
Abhassara: The 'Radiant Ones', are a class of heavenly beings of the fine material world (rupa-loka).
Abhassara brahma: the radiant brahma of the second Rupavacara Jhana Brahma realm.
Abhavita citta: mind that is not developed.
Abhicitta: higher consciousness.
Abhidhamma: 
,
the special Dhamma"; philosophical exposition of the Dhamma, the analytic
doctrine, higher doctrine, Buddhist philosophy, metaphysics, Classic Buddhist
Scriptures, systematic analyses of the main points of the Buddha's teachings;
name of the Third Pitaka of the Buddhist Doctrine, dealing with the ultimate
nature of things.
Abhidhamma Pitaka: 
, the
name of the Third Pitaka of the Buddhist Doctrine.
Abhikkanta: to go forward.
Abhijjhă: covetousness; greed, lobha
abhińńæs: higher psychic power; intuitive knowledge; transcendental wisdom ; psychic powers acquired in the process of " self-purification " and liberation. ;having understood well, special power, supernormal power.
Abhimuti: resolution.
Abhisamaya: the moment of awakening, enlightenment.
Abhisańkhăra: volitional formation, new conditioning.
Abhisańkhăra mără: moral and immoral actions leading to conditioned existence
Abhisańkhăra upadhi: moral and immoral actions which prolong the round of rebirth
Abhisila: higher morality.
Abhomokkha: determination.
Ăbrahmacariya: ignoble practice, unchastity
Abyupada: without ill will.
Ăcariya: teacher, mentor
Ăcariya vatta: duties of bhikkhus and novices towards their mentors
Acetana: static.
Acinteyya: incomprehensibility; unthinkable, incomprehensible, Impenetrable.
Accutam : Deathless, i.e., Nibbana.
Addhagu: A traveller.
Adhamma: injustice, unrighteous conduct.
Adhicitta sikkhă training in higher mentality
Adhigama: realisation, attainment to wisdom.
Adhika: senior, better, superior.
Adhimokkha: Determination, one of the cetasika, faith, conviction
Adhipati: Lord, chieftain.
Adhisila-sikkha: Training in higher morality.
Adhitthana: determination, resolution.
Adinăndănă: theft, taking what is not given.
Adinava: danger, misery.
Adosa: amity, hatelessness, non-hatred, one of the three wholsome roots
Aeon: Kappa.
Ăgantu: a guest
Agati: 4 'wrong paths'.
Agga: chief, top, highest, end.
Agga Maha Kammatthanacariya: The title of 'Great Noble Meditation Master' in Burma (Myanmar)
Aggasavaka, Aggamahasavaka: 
, Chief
Disciple, supreme disciple of the Buddha
Ăhăra: Nutriment, food, nutrition
Ahetuka-ditthi: 
; causelessness belief; belief that there is no cause for
anything.
Ahimsa: non-injuring; harmless; non-violent
Ahirika:
; shamelessness,
lack of moral shame.
Ahirika-Anottappa: Lack of moral shame and dread
Ahosi-kamma: 'Ineffective Kamma'.
Ajatasattu:
, Indian
King who managed to kill his own father.
Ajiva: livelihood.
Ajivaka: naked ascetic.
Ajivaparisuddhi sila: morality of pure livelihood.
Akanittha: The great ones.
Akasa: Space.
Akasa-dhatu: Space element.
Akasa-kasina: Space-kasina exercise.
Akiriya-ditthi: View of ineffiency of action.
Akiriyavada: doctrine of non-action.
Akusala: 
; unskillful,
unwholesome, immoral, demeritorious, sinful
Akusala Cetasika:, 
, akusala mental
concomitants
Akusala Kamma:
,
Unwholesome action
Akusala-vitakka: Unwholesome thoughts.
Alms: offering of food to monks on their daily rounds
Alobha: greedlessness, disinterestedness
Aloka: light, illumination.
Aloka-kasina: light kasina exercise.
Aloka-sanna: Perseption of light
Alokita: looking forward.
Amarana: freedom from death
Ămisa: four monastic requisites
Amitta: foe, enemy.
Amoha: non-delusion, reason
Ana-desana: a discourse of authority, the Vinaya Pitaka
Anægæmi : non-returner, one who has achieved the next-to-highest level of transcendent insight, after destroying five of ten fetters, one who has attained the third magga; one who will not return to the world of sense-spheres. Non-returner a noble disciple on the third stage of sanctification
Anægæmi magga-phala: A Path and Fruition of Non- returning.
Ananda: the cousin of the Buddha and the Buddhist's faithful attendant monk, he had excellent memory , memorizing the Buddha's sermons which were later recorded as Suttas
Ànandă: The ever present attendant and cousin of the Buddha.
Ănăpană: inhalation and exhalation, respiration
Ănăpană-sati: Mindfulness of in- and out-breathing
Anantarika-kamma: heinous action with immediate destiny.
Anantara-paccaya: Proximity
Anantariya: the immediacy, a name for concentration of mind
Ananpana-sati: Mindfulness on In- and out-breathing.
Anathapindika
: a
wealthy merchant of Savatthi in Ancient India, constructed Jetavanna
Grove
Anatta: uncontrollable nature, selflessness (non-self), soullessness (no-soul), no substance, egolessness; without a soul; non-existence of self, ego or soul. The most important Truth to be realised in order to attain liberation.
Anatta-sanna: Perception of not-self.
Anata: deathlessness, synonym for Nibbana, immortality.
Annathabhava: radical change.
Anekantavada: doctrine of many possibilites.
Anguttaranikăya: 
,
collection of numerically graduated discourses
Anicca: impermanence and changeability.
Aniccanupassana: contemplation of impermanence
Anicca-sanna: Perception of Impermanence.
Animitta : The Signless, i.e., no sign of craving, ill will and wrong view. It is an epithet of Nibbana.
Anitthayon: unpleasant and horrible sense object.
Anna: Highest knowledge.
Annadăna: donation of food
Anoma: river crossed by the Bodhisatta on renunciation
anottappa: 
; fearlessness,
recklessness, lack of moral dread (in doing bad things)
Anudhammacari: one who acts in conformity with the Dhamma
Anuloma: the order of arising
Anuloma-citta: adaption moment of consciousness
Anuloma-nana: adaption-knowledge
Anumodana: expression of appreciation or approval; a monk's blessings after receiving dana, sharing of, thanking.
Anupadisesa-nibbana: Nibbana which takes place at the death of an arahant, without any substratum of life remaining.
Anupassanacontemplation:
Anupubba-nirodha: the 9 successive extinction
Anusaya: underlying, latent disposition or tendency.
Anusaya kilesa: latent defilements, latent tendencies.
Anussati: reflection, earnest contemplation
Apacayana: respecting those worthy of respect.
Appamada: heedfulness, diligence, earnestness .
Apana: respiration, breathing out.
Apatti: violation of disciplinary rules for bhikkhus; an offence
æpatti , Samghadisesa: offences committed by a bhikkhu; require penance and suspension from the order.
Apæya:
, miserable
existences; the four lower worlds
Apo: water.
Ăpo dhătu: element of cohesion, fluid element, element of water
Appamăda: mindfulness, vigilance, heedfulness
Appana: absorption concentration.
Arahat, Arahant: 
Ărăha; 'worthy' one who is fully enlightened after destroying all ten fetters;
one who has attained the fourth and final Magga, and for whom existences have
come to an end, arahanta, araha; one who has attained the Summum Bonum of
religious aspiration-Nibbana; one who has realised the Path and the Fruition of
Holiness
Arahatta: arahanta, state of being being an arahant. Worthy One, one who has attained the final stage of sanctification.
Arahatta magga-phala: Path and Fruition of the fourth stage of sanctification.
Arammana: a sense object.
Ariyæ :
the noble one; one who has entered the path, i.e., one who has
realized at least one of the four Maggas; One of the Four Groups of Noble
Personalities; i.e.,Stream-Winner; Once-Returner, Non-Returner and
Purified (Arahat).
Ariyæ Puggala: Ariya .
Ariyasaccă: 
, Noble
Truth, the four ariya truths
Ariyasavakă: Noble disciple; saintly disciple
Ariya-magga: the Noble Path
Ariya-magganana: insight of the Noble Path
Arupa : formless.
Arupavacarajjhana: absorption of the immaterial sphere.
Arupa bhumi: 
,
Non-material sphere, formless realm.
Arupa-raga: craving for existence in the immaterial world.
Asadisa: incomparable, matchless
Asammoba: nonconfusion, non-delusion.
Asankhata: unconditioned state, Nibbana.
Asankheyya: incalculable, uncountable
Ăsava: moral intoxicant, befuddling defilements; taints of mind, corruptions, biases; intoxicating extract or secretion of a flower or tree. Figuratively used in Buddhist Psychology for the four biases of mind which intoxicate muddle it, so that it cannot rise to higher things. They are 1. Sensuality, 2. Lust for life, 3. Clinging to mere views and speculation. 4. Ignorance.
Asavakkhayanana: knowledge of the destruction of the taints.
Asceticism: austere practices( fasting, meditation, pursuit of solitude, etc.).
Ashin (B): Venerable
Asoka: the third Emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty in Ancient India in 268-239 BC; the Third Council was held during his reign; set the model for government ruling in accordance with Buddhist philosophy
Assaji: 
one
of the five ascetics; after attaining Arahantship, he converted Sariputta, the
Chief Disciple of the Buddha.
Asubha: Impurity.
Asubha kammathăna: reflecting on the repellent nature of a dead human body
Asuras: demons, fierce divine beings, 'titans'; the male Asura is ugly and furious always fighting with each other. The female Asura is very beautiful. They inhibit one of the lower worlds.
Atimana : Superiority conceit.
Atman(Sanskrit): soul, self.
Atta, attan: true self, body, self; consciousness, mind; ego or soul, principle; The central idea in all animistic religions, but shown by Buddhism, science and philosophy to be a false concept; The soul, in the sense of an integrated, everlasting life, as postulated in the anirnistic religions of revelation ; a separate "Self". Buddhism denies the existence of such.
Atta-ditthi: ego-belief.
Attabhava: person, personality, re-birth, self-hood.
Atthăcariya: giving good counsel
Atthakathæ : commentary, explanation of meaning
Atthakkhana: eight inopportune circumstances or times
Atthapatisambhidha: analytical insight into the meaning; essence and consequence of things
Atta-hita: one's own advantage
Attavada: doctrine of self.
Avasikavatta: duty as a host bhikkhu
Avaso: home, dwelling place.
Avici: one of the eight hells
Avijjă : 
; ignorance,
delusion, not understanding the full meaning of the Four Noble Truths
Avijjasava: taints of ignorance.
Avikhepa: non-distraction.
Avihimsa sankappa: thoughts free from cruelty.
Avusa: friend.
Ayatana: sense-bases and sense-objects; sense field
Ayus: age, life.
Ăyukkhaya marana: death from reaching end of life span
Bahu: many, much.
Bala :power, strength.
Băla: the foolish, the ignorant.
Balavant: strong and sturdy.
Balu: Yakkha: minor deities.
Bhadanta: venerable, worthy (person).
Bhagavant: Lord, Blessed one
Bhante: Venerable Sir: term of respectful address to a bhikkhu, Venerable one, O Lord, Revered Sir.
Bhasita: speech.
Bhassa: conversation.
Bhava: state of existence, becoming
Bhavatanha: craving for being
Bhævanæ : cultivation, meditation, development by means of thought
Bhaya: fear.
Bhikkhu : a member of the Buddhist Order; a Buddhist Monk, Mendicant.Bhikkhu(Sanskrit-Bhiksu) An alms- man, a mendicant, a Buddhist monk or priest. The BHIK KHU takes certain vows (including chastity and celibacy) and lives a monastic life, but is free from much of the regimentation " of the monks of other religions.
Bhikkhu(Sanskrit-Bhiksu) : An alms- man, a mendicant, a Buddhist monk or priest. The BHIK KHU takes certain vows (including chastity and celibacy) and lives a monastic life, but is free from much of the regimentation " of the monks of other religions.
Bhikkhunű : a female member of the Buddhist Order; a Buddhist Nun: (see 'Thela-shin' )
Bhojana: food, eating; alms.
Buddhanussati: recollection of Buddha.
Bhumi: earth, region, plane.
Bhutagama sikkha: The disciplinary rule forbidding bhikkhus to cut vegetation.
Bija: seed.
Bijaniyama: the natural law of cause and effect (on heredity); one of five Niyama
Bimbisara: Beimbathaya (B); king of Magadha
Bodh-Gaya: Buddhagaya (see below)
Bodhi: perfect wisdom or enlightenment; enlightenment
Bodhi nana or sabbanuta nana: Supreme Enlightenment; the all cornprehending wisdom.
Bodhi-pakkhiya: contributing to Enlightment.
Bodhisatta: Bawdithat (B), the Buddha-to-be (also known as Hpaya-laung in Burmese); one who is destined for enlightenment.
Bodhisatta Metteyya: the would-be next Buddha called Metteyya.
Bodhi : (1) Enlightenment, (2) The tree of wisdom (Ficus religiosa) under which Gotama sat in meditation to attain the Enlightenment of a Supreme Buddha.
Bodhi Tree: 
the
sacred banyan tree under which the Buddha gained enlightenment; also 'Bo'
tree.
Bodhisatta: A being destined to attain fullest enlightenment.
Brahmă : Byamma (B); a class of higher gods; a being born in a higher realm than that of the Devas. (Although both 'Deva' and 'Brahma' are sometimes loosely translated as 'gods' or 'angels', they do not in any way correspond to these Western concepts)A God. Mahabrahma was referred to as " The Creator, the ancient of days, the omniscient the omnipotent. The Buddha in more than one sermon showed that even Mahabrahma is impermanent.
Brahmadanda: Brahma-punishment by the Order of Sangha to ignore and have nothing to do with the person to be punished.
Brahmana: In Buddhism, one in whom craving is extinguished. The term also applies to the Buddhas and Paccekabuddhas.
Brahmin: Vedic Priest; one of the four castes in ancient and modern India; a member of priestly class in ancient India.
Brahma-cariya: holy lif, celibacy.
Brahma-loka: realm of Brahmas.
Buddha: the Founder of Buddhism, the Enlightened One; one who has attained en lightenment ; a perfect man, superior to all other beings human and divine, by His knowledge of the truth. The word "Buddha" is an appellative, not a proper name. There are two sorts of Buddhas, viz. Pacceka-buddhas, who attain complete enlightenment but do not preach to the world, and Sammasambuddhas who have attained omniscience and secured the 10 powers. The latest of these was Gotama Buddha now referred to as "the Buddha ".
Buddha-Dhamma: the Doctrine taught by the Buddha
Buddhaghosa: a famous buddhist writer of the fifteenth century.
Buddhagaya: Bodh-Gaya in Bihar, India: where the Buddha gained Enlightenment.
Buddhism: a religious teaching propagated by the Buddha and his followers that one must become free of human desires to escape from suffering
Buddhist: 
; the
followers of the Buddha
Byapada/ vyapada: ill will, anger, hatred
Byaw(B): ritual drum for religious ceremony.
Caga: generosity
Cakkavatti: Universal emperor.
Cakkha: wheel.
Cakkhu: eye.
Cakkhu-vinnana: eye-conscious.
Cankama: walking up and down.
Catumadhu: 4 types of honey.
Cetana: will, intention, volition.
Cetasikas: 
; Mental
Concomitants
Cetiya: stupa, shrine, pagoda
Cha: six.
Ch'an: forms of Mahayana Buddhism in China
Chanda: desire, will, desire.
Chanda-raga: lust.
Channa: (Hsanna); Gotama's attendant, charioteer
Ciram: for a long time.
Cittaniyama: the natural law of cause and effect (workings of the mind); one of five Niyama
Citta: 
; mind, thought,
consciousness
Cittakammannata: fittness of the work of the mind.
Cittalahuta: lightness of the mind.
Cittamuduta: pliancy of the mind.
Cittapagunnata: skilfnulness of mind.
Cűvara : 3 requisite robes of a monk; piece of cloth used by a bhikkhu. Robe (exclusively for a bhikkhu), (sanghati, uttarasanga, antara vasaka).
Cűvara -kamma: making-up or mending of robes.
Coloured Rays: six coloured rays , emitting from the body of the Buddha in the fourth week after enlightenment, consisting of blue ( nila ), yellow ( pita ) , red ( lohita ), white ( odata ), orange ( manjettha ) and a mixture of these five colours.
Culamani: Sulamani (B); shrine in Tavatimsa heaven
Dakkhina: southern, righthand side
Dæna : charity, alms-giving; gifts made to the Holy Order of Monks; the first of the Ten good deeds.
Danda : Stick, weapon, punishment, penalty.
Dæyaka : donor, giver.
Desanæ : discourse, instruction, expounding, preashing.
Deva: a minor god, a spirit being, a celestial being; a being born in one of the higher realms within the Sensuous Sphere (kama-loka); shining one
Devadatta: cousin and brother-in-law of Prince Siddhatta, Yasodhara's brother
Dhamma
: 
Dharma (Sanskrit) : the Doctrine of the Buddha; teaching of Buddha; truth, the
law; (1) The liberating law discovered and proclaimed by the Buddha, is
summed up in the four Noble Truths. (2) Constitution, Norm, Law, Justice,
Righteousness.
Dhamma-cakka: 
; Wheel
of Law
Dhamma-desana: discourse of Dhamma.
Dhammadhara: one who is versed in the Dhamma
Dhammajivino : One who earns his living according to the dhamma
Dhammamuttamam: The Noble Dhamma or the Highest Dhamma (the Nine Transcendentals). The Nine Transcendentals are: four Magga, four Phalas and Nibbana.
Dhammaniyama: the universal natural law of cause and effect
Dhammas: all conditioned and un-conditioned phenomena, things, nature.
Dhammattha: just, righteous
Dhammika: a righteous, just.
Dhana: wealth, money.
Dhatu: element, (pathavi=earth, tejo=fire, apo=water & vayo=motion)
Dhutałga : austerity or purification practice to remove defilement
Dibbacakkhu nana: the divine power of sight
Digha: long.
Dittha: seen.
Ditthi: 
; view, beliefs;
(can be good or bad); Ditthi view, belief, dogma, theory, speculation, false
theory, ungrounded opinion. (opposed to Samma-ditthi, firmly-grounded knowledge,
right belief).
Domanasa: grief, distress, displeasure.
Dosa: 
; hatred, anger, ill
will, aversion.
Duggati: unhappy destinations or existences; the four lower worlds
Dukkha: 
suffering, stress, pain ( in the context of feeling)( Dukkha as a
'Noble Truth' cannot be translated)
Dullabha: difficult to obtain, rare.
Duta: messenger, emissary.
Dvara: door, gate.
Dvi: two.
Eka: one, single.
Etadaggam: the chief, the best
Evam: thus.
Fetters: ten conditions responsible for worldly existence: (see Samyojana)
Gacchati: while in motion.
Gambhira: deep, profound, well-founded, hard to perceive.
Gana: chapter of monks.:
Gandhaba: smell.
Gandhabba: a class of devas; attendants of the King of the eastern direction
Garu: heavy, weighty
Gatha: a verse, a stanza
Geha: house.
Ghana: nose.
Giri: mountain, rock.
Gita: singing, song.
Gocara: pasture.
Gocaragama: a village from where a monk obtains his food.
Gotama: 
the
family name of Prince Siddhatta, the future Buddha
Hadaya: heart.
Hamsa: the mythical sacred goose/swan.
Hina: low, deprived, mean, inferior.
Hinayana: ' Small Vehicle '; Theravada is the term preferred by most Buddhists of south-east Asia.
Hiri: modesty, the shame of being known to do bad deeds.
Hita: good, welfare, beneficial.
Hsun(B): 'Soon'(B): meals for monks.
Iddhi: psychic power, success.
Indriyas: controlloing faculties
Iriyapatha: postures.
Issa: envy.
Isipatana: Saranath near Varanasi ( formerly Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India ) where the Buddha preached the first sermon.
Itthayon: pleasant or desirable sense-object.
Jagarita: waking.
Jambudipa: the continent so called (according to ancient division of earth)
Jara: ageing, decay
Jaramarana: ageing and death
Jatakastories: 
; 547 tales of the
Buddha in his previous existences. Usually referred to as 550 Jatakas in
Burma.
Jati: birth
Jhănas: various levels of deep calm, advanced states of meditation practice in which the mind is totally absorbed in its object of concentration; trance, tranquillity, mental absorption.
Jivha: tongue.
Jivita: life.
Kala: time.
Kalyana: good deed, pleasant.
Kalyanamitta: good friend, a virtuous friend, a spiritual friend
Kalyana puthujjana: virtuous worldling
Kama: desire, sensual pleasure.
Kama-tanha: craving fpr sensual pleasure.
Kamma: karma, destiny or fate/ Doctrine of inevitable consequence, work or action, volitional action; moral principle of the law of cause and effect.
Kammatthana: Meditation
Kammaniyama: the law of cause and effect (personal behaviour)
Kamathan: 
;
Meditation.
Kammawa: lacquered Scriptures.
Kappa: an aeon ; a cycle; an inconceivably long space of time.
Karavika: an India bird noted for the beauty of its song.
Karaweik: Garuda, the royal bird mount of Vishnu.
Karuna: Compassion.
Kason (B): The Myanmar month for parts of May and June
Kassapa: 
; One of the 28
Buddhas, a famous Disciple of the Buddha
Kathina: 
robes offering ceremony for monks
Kaya: body, form
Kayakammannata: fitness of work of the body.
Kesa: hair (of head).
Khana: moment, opportunity.
Khandhas: 
; groups or
aggregates; five in number (material form, feeling or sensation, perception,
volitional impulses or tendencies and consciousness); literally, "Mass". In the
Five Khandhas it means one of the composite group- factors in the
psycho-physical aggregate; the word has many other meanings in different
contexts.
Khanika Samadhi: momentary concentration.
Khattiya: a member of warrior or noble class in ancient IndiaThe warrior caste In the Buddha's day, the highest social caste.
Kilesă : moral defilements
Kinnara and Kinnari: mythological hybrid creatures, half-human and half-bird.
Kondanna: 
the first Arahant and the most senior member of the Sangha. As a
brahmin, he correctly predicted the future of the Prince Siddhatta.
Koyin (B): Shin (B) ; young novice.
Koyin-gyi (B): old novice.
kumara: boy, prince.
Kusala: good, merit, skillful, wholesome.
Kusalakammapatha: the ten bases of skillful action
Kutho (B): merit acquired through doing good.
Kusinara: Kusinagare in Uttar Pradesh, India: Where the Buddha passed away.
Lakkhana:: characteristics, sign, mark, attribute.
Lama: a Buddhist monk of Tibet, literally, " superior one "
Lobha: 
; greed
Loka: world, state of existence
Loka-natha: refuge of the world, Buddha.
Lokanatha: Lokanat: Lawkanat: Avalokitesvara: whose duty is to watch over the world before the coming of the next Buddha; a Mahayana Buddhist deity.
Lokiya: mundane, worldly
Lokuttara: supramundane, transcendental
Lent: Waso (B); usually in July: when monks avoid travelling in rainy seasons.
Lokuttara: beyond defilements and attachment, transcendent
Lokuttara Dhamma: The nine Transcendentals, viz., the four Maggas, the four Phalas and Nibbana
Lotus: a type of water lily , the Buddhist Symbol of Enlightenment.
Lumbini: 
the
birth place of the Buddha.
Macchariya: 
; stinginess,
miserliness.
Magga: 
; the Path, road,
course
Magga-phala: Fourth Stage of santification
Mahabhuta: primary material element.
Maha-karuna: great compassion.
Mahayana: ' Large Vehicle '; the form of Buddhism practised in Tibet, Nepal, China, Korea and Japan.
Mahinda: the Arahat monk, the son of Emperor Asoka.
Majjhimapatipada: 
; The Middle
Path; The Noble Path of Eight Constituents
Mana: 
; Pride, Conceit,
mind
Mandap (B): pavilion for religious ceremony
Mangala: blessing.
Mano-vinnana: mind-consciousness.
Mantras: sacred words of power, chants, hymns.
Manussa: mam, human being.
Manuthiha; mythical half-human half-lion creature.
Măra: the god of death, the personification of evil, the evil one.
Marana : death.
Matar: mother.
Maya: Queen Maya, mother of Buddha
Maya: illusion, ignorance.
Meru, mount: 'Myint-mo' (B); the central cosmic mountain axis; the sacred mountain
Metta: Loving-kindness, Universal loving-kindness, goodwill.
Metteyya: Maitreya: the next Buddha.
Miccha: wrong.
Miga-daya: deer-park.
Mitta: friend
Modati: to rejoice
Moggallana: 
; Maukgalan (B); one of Buddha's Chief Disciples,
being second only to Sariputta.
Moha: 
; Ignorance,
Bewilderment, delusion
Monk: bhikkhu: 
oo-zin(B):oo-pazin(B):the adult member of the Sangha
Order.
Mudita: Altruistic joy
Mudra: hand gestures on statures of the Buddha, symbolizing different meanings
Mula: 
; basic.
Muni: a 'silent one', a sage
Musa-vada: falsehood, lie.
Nadaw (B): Myanmar month covering parts of November and December.
Nagas: big snake-like creatures, often seen sheltering or protecting the Buddha; attendants of the King of the western direction.
Năma : mind, mind object, a collective time for all mental processes.
Nama-dhamma: mental factors.
Năma-rupa: name and form, mind and body.
Nana: wisdom, knowledge.
Nanadassana: insight and vision.
Nat (B) : the guardian spirit being.
Nar-tha (B): ear-boring for the first time for young girls.
Nata: knowing.
Navakamma vatthu: cash donation.
Nibbăna: 
; Nirvana
(Sanskrit): final bliss, final emancipation, final release from the cycle of
birth and death, the state of liberation; it constitutes the highest and
ultimate goal of all Buddhist aspirations, i.e., absolute extinction of
that life-affirming will manifested as Greed, Hate, Delusion, and convulsively
clinging to existence, and therewith also the ultimate and absolute deliverance
from all future rebirth, old age, disease and death, from all suffering and
misery.
Nibbida: disgust.
Nicca: permanent.
Nikăya: Part of the Sutta Pitaka; e.g., Digha Nikăya, Majjhima Nikăya, Samyutta Nikăya, Anguttara Nikăya, Khuddaka Nikăya.
Nimitta: 'sign', mental image appearing in Meditation; a sign of something to come.
Nirodha: cessation
Nirodha Sacca: 
; The Truth of
cessation of Suffering
Nirodha sammapatti: attainment of cessation of consciousness
Niraya; Naraka: a place of continuous extreme mental and physical pain sometimes compared with hell; but it is different from hell because suffering in Niraya is not everlasting like suffering in hell. Avici Niraya is the most fearful of all Nirayas; and
Nisidati: to sit down.
Nivarana: hindrances; hatred, restlessness and remorse, sloth, and topor and doubt.
Niyama: cosmic law.
Noble Eight-fold
Path: 
the
systematized methods of Buddhist practice
Noble Truths, Four: The Truths of suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering and the way leading to the cessation of suffering.
Obhasa: illumination.
Oja: nutrient, food
Okasa: permission, open space.
Okasa Loka: the inanimate world; the habitat of living beings, biosphere
Ottapa: fear of doing evil
Ovada: admonition, exhortation, advice.
Ovadana: advice.
Paccaya: relation, cause, condition.
Pacceka: private, by oneself.
Paccekabuddha: One who, like the Buddha, is Self-Enlightened in the Four Noble Truths and has uprooted all the moral defilements (kilesas). However, he cannot teach others. Paccekabuddhas appear during the absence of the Buddha Sasana (Teaching).
Padhana: basic, principal.
Pagoda: the generic English term for Zei-di, stupa or temple, characterized by a series of superimposed spires.
Pakasaniya kamma: an act of Proclamation carried out by the Order of the Samgha regarding a member declaring that as his conduct was of' one kind before and is of another kind now, henceforth all his physical and verbal actions are only his and have nothing to do with the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Samgha.
Pali: the Vernacular language of northern India in the Buddha's time. The original language for the Buddhist text. The canon of Buddhist writings
Pali Canon: the basic Buddhist Scriptures.
Pandita: the wise, the learned
Pandukambala: Sakka's throne.
Panha: question.
Panka: five.
Pankakkhandha: five aggregates.
Pankasila: the five basic precepts of morality.
Panita: sublime.
pańńă: 
; wisdom,
understanding, knowledge, intelligence, comprising all the higher faculties of
cognition. Insight.
Parabaik: the ancient folding book.
Paramattha: 
; The highest
good, truth in the ultimate, absolute, sense, philosophical truth.
Paramattha Sacca: 
; The truth in
the ultimate, absolute, sense.
Paramis, Paramitas: perfections.
Paribbajaka: 
; a wandering
ascetic; paribbajika: wandering female
ascetic
Parideva: lamentation.
Parikamma: preliminary.
Parinibbana: 
; passing into
Nibbana at death of a Buddha or an arahat; Full Nibbana, the 'Great
Decease'
Parikkhra: 'eight compulsory requisites' of a novice are Alms bowl , two upper robes, one under-wear robe, one girdle, a razor knife, needle and water strainer.
Parisa: assmbly, gathering.
Parittas: religious stanzas , usually recited for protection against harmful influences.
Pariyatti: 
the body (doctrine ) of teachings; adequacy, accomplishment, competency,
capability, accomplishment in the scriptures, study of the Buddhist texts.
Pathavi: earth.
Patigha: Repulsion; repugnance; anger.
Paticca: depending on, because of.
Paticcasamuppada: 
; the principle
or doctrine of Dependent Origination, Causal genesis
Patigha: resentment.
Patiloma: the order of cessation
Patimokkhasamvara sila: the morality of the vows of the monastic order.
Patipatti: 
the practice of the Dhamma.
Pativedha: 
; the realizable
aspect of the Dhamma
Paya (B): 'Holy one', often applied to the Buddhist figures.
Peta: the departed, a miserable being who is always hungry in a lower world
Phala: fruition, result.
Pharusa: course, rough, harsh.
Phassa: touch, contact, impression
Phongyi (B): Buddhist monk.
Phongyi Pyan (B): cremation ceremony for distinguished monk.
Phongyi Kyaung (B): monastery.
Photthabba: to be touched
Piti: delight, joy, satisfaction
Piya: affection
Pothudaw (B): meaning good layman. They used to wear white clothes with their heads shaved, and they observed five precepts only.
Pubbenivasanussati nana: the power of recollection of past existences
Puja, Pujana: Reverence ( after Temple worship in Hinduism ), offering.
Punna: merit, pure, sacred.
Puthujjana: ordinary person or monk, a common man; one who has not attained any of the Maggas, not yet on the Holy path, worldling.
Raga: passion, lust, desire
Răhulă : 
the only son of The Prince Siddhatta.
Rupa: form, one of five khandhas, material form, visible form.
Rupakkhandha: form or matter aggregate.
Rupavacara: 
; belonging to the
realm of material form.
Sabbannuta: all-knowing, omniscient.
Saccă : Truth, the Four Noble Truths
sadda: sound, noice, voice.
Saddha: faith, belief, confidence, reliance.
Sakadagămi: once-returner, one who has destroyed the first three fetters
Sakka: The "King of Devas "; the lord over the celestial beings in the heaven of the "Thirty-Three ".
Sakkăyaditthi: 
; personality
belief, concept of self.
Sakyamuni: another name of the Buddha: 'Sage of the Sakyas'
Salayatana: the six senses bases (eye, ear, nose, tongue, touch and mind)' the six fields of sense perception
Samădhi: concentration attained through meditation
Samana: a recluse, monk or medicant
Samapatti: Sustained deep mental absorption in concentration, attainment.
Samatha: calming, tranquillity, concentration, serenity.
Samatha bhavana: concentration meditation..
Sambodhi: perfect knowledge, enlightenment.
Samgha: Sangha: the Buddhist Order
Sammă : perfect, right.
Sammă ajiva: 
Right
Livelihood
Sammă ditthi: 
Right
Understanding or View,
Sammă kammanta: 
Right Action
Sammă samădhi: 
Right Concentration.
Sammă sambuddha: perfect, fully-awakened. It is the state of one by whom the Liberating Law (dhamma) which had become lost to the world, has again been discovered, realized and clearly proclaimed to the world.
Sammă sankappa: 
Right Thought, right intention.
Sammă sati: 
Right
Mindfulness
Sammă văcă: 
Right
Speech
Sammă văyama: 
Right
Effort
Sammuti: convention.
Sammuti sacca: conventional reality.
Sampajanna: full awareness, comprehension.
Sampajanati: knows or understand fully.
Samsăra : stream of existence; round of existences; round of rebirths; cycle of life and death; 'wandering on', transmigration.
Samudaya: 
rise, origin, cause.
Samudda: sea.
Samvara: restraint.
Samvega: religious emotion, agitation.
Samyojanas: ten fetters: self-view or personality belief, sceptical doubt, blind attachment to rites, ritual and practices, sensual desire, aversion, desire for form or fine-material existence, desire for formless existence, restlessness, conceit and ignorance
Sankhăra: volitional impulses, conditioned things, activities of mind which are aligned to self view; formations; component things; arising-and-passing-away; physical and mental phenomena.
Sankhărupekkha: equanimity of formations.
SanghaSamgha, monk; community of Buddhist monks, multitude.
Sangharama: monastery of Buddhist monks.
Sankhara: conditioned thing, kamma as conditioner.
Sanna: recognition, perception: one of five khandhas
Sannipata: assembly.
Sanskrit: the language of the Aryan peoples and of the Hindu scriptures, also related to Greek, Latin and Persian.
Santi: peace.
Sappurisa: good and pious people, virtuous persons.
Sarana: refuge, resort, help.
Saranam gacchati: goes to for refuge, takes refuge in.
Sariputta:
; the Chief
Disciple of the Buddha.
Sasana: 
; Teaching of the
Buddha, dispensation.
Sassata: eternal.
Sati: mindfulness, awareness
satipa„„hæna : [Attention (sati) ; the fact to be sustained (pa„„hæna)]. Establishment of the attention.
Satta: a being.
Savaka: a disciple of the Buddha
Sayadaw (B) : Chief Abbot of the monastery: Kyaung Htaing Sayadaw (B) : Chief Resident Monk.
Saya (B): teacher (male); Sayama : teacher (female)
Sayagyi (B): great teacher (male); Sayamagyi: great teacher (female)
Sekha: trainer.
Shin (B): novice: Junior member of the Monastic Order (male).
Shin Laung (B) : novice; boy-aspirant; boy-postulant;
Shinpyu (B): the Initiation Ceremony for boys entering the monastery for the first time.
Siddhatta;
Siddhartha
(Sanskrit): means " wish fulfilled "; the Indian prince who became enlightened
as the Buddha
Sikkhapda: training precepts.
Sila: 
moral
virtue, morality, moral practice or conduct; the Five, Eight or Ten Precepts
Silabbataparamasa:: clinging to mere rules and ritual one of the fetters, inhibiting attainment.
Soka: sorrow, grief.
Somanassa: joy, mental pleasure.
Soon (B): hsun(B): alms offered to the monks .
Sota: ear.
Sotăpanna: 
; stream
enterer, stream winner, who has destroyed the three of the fetters and is
assured of enlightenment in no more than seven lifetimes; the first of the four
groups of Noble Personalities; the Sotapanna is one who by meditation has
realised the truth of Anatta, is confirmed in confidence in the Doctrine and
hence has destroyed the first three fetters, i.e., (1) Belief in Self
(See under Atta), (2) Doubt and hesitation and (3) Belief in the efficacy of
rites and ceremonies for the attainment of liberation. The Sotapanna, who has
gained the fruit of the first stage of the Path, is assured of his final
emancipation within a measurable period, is not reborn more than seven times,
and is no longer in danger of a lower rebirth. He may in this lifetime complete
the further three stages and attain Nibbana as an Arahant.
Sotapatti: entering upon the Holy Stream.
Sotapatti Magga : the first Magga attained by one who has entered the current of emancipation. This is followed immediately by Sotapatti Phala.
Sotapatti Phala : the 'fruit' of 'fruition' of stream-entering; it follows Sotapatti Magga.
Stupa: zei-di, a dome or pagoda built to mark a Buddhist holy place or collection of sacred relics, burial mound.
Suddhi: purity.
Suddhodana: father of the Buddha
Sugati or suggati: happy plane of existence
Sukha: happiness, bliss, satisfactoriness
Sunyata: emptiness, without intrinsic essence
Suriya: the sun.
Sutta: 
; sutra (Sanskrit);
a discourse, a scripture containing the teachings of Buddha, wellsaid
word
Sutta Pitaka: 
; the 'basket' of
collection of the Buddha's discourses.
Suttanta: a chapter of the Scriptures, a text, a discourse, a sutta, a dialogue.
Suvanna: gold.
Tabaung (B) : Myanmar Month equivalent to parts of March and April.
Tandaga: temporarily.
Tanha: 
; craving, desire,
the main cause of Suffering.
Tanha-upadana: craving and clinging
Tapodwe(B) : Myanmar Month equivalent to parts of February and March.
Tathăgata: one who has found the Truth; synonym for the Buddhas; the 'perfect one': The epithet of an Arahant
Tavatimsa Heaven: the second of the six Buddhist Heavens or Deva-loka, standing at the top of Mount Meru.
Tazaung (B): the shrine building
Tazaungmon (B) : Myanmar Month equivalent to parts of October and November.
Thabeik ( B): the food bowl of the monks
Thain (B) : the ordination hall for the monks; Sima (P)
Thela-shin (B): 
a Buddhist nun in Burma, also called 'Sayar lay'
'Theikhar-shin'
Thera: an Elder, a senior member of the Buddhist Order: but often applied to bhikkhus in general..
Theravada: ' the Doctrine of the Elders '; the form of Buddhism practised in Sri lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, considered to be the original and orthodox form of Buddhism
Thina-middha: stiffness and torpor.
Tipitaka: Tripitaka (Sanskrit); the ' Three Baskets ' : the classic Buddhist Scriptures; the three divisions of the Buddhist Canonical works, 1. i.e., (1) The Section of the Sangha Rules (Vinaya), (2) Section of the Discourses (Suttanta), (3) The section of the Higher Doctrine (Abhidhamma).
Tisarana: the three refuges, the three jewels ( Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha)
Ti-pitaka-dhara:: 
; Knowing the
Ti-pitaka by heart.
Triple Gem: the Three Jewels; Tisarana; The Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha; the core of the Buddhist Faith: the three ratanas (B)
Tusită , Tushita Heaven: where the next Buddha, Metteyya is waiting to come down to earth at the appropriate time.
U (B): equivalent to 'Mr.', usually for lay men, but can be used for monks as well. 'Daw' is the title for older or respectable women; 'Ko' and 'Ma' are for young man and woman; 'Maung' and 'Ma' are for boy and girl respectively.
Uccheda-ditthi: 
, Annihilation
belief.
Udana: verse or stanza of exultation, solemn utterance.
Upadana: clinging, grasping, attachment
Upajjhaya: preceptor.
Upasaka: the male followers, lay man, lay disciple, (of the Buddha) who do not follow the strict rules of Samgha, male lay devotee.
Upasika: lay woman, female lay devotee, (see above).
Upekkha : Upeksha: equanimity, indifferent feeling
Uposatha Days: specially assigned days of the month on which the Buddhists observe the Uposatha (eight) precepts and the members of the Order to recite patimokkha; Sabbath days; days set aside in conformity with the lunar calendar for special observance of religious duties and of the additional precepts involving fasting after midday. They occur on the new-moon day, the full-moon day and the two days of the first and the last moon quarter.
Uposatha sila: the eight moral precepts, the observance of Sabbath
Uttama: noble, highest, greatest.
Uttara: higher, greater, northern, upper.
Uttarasanga: upper robe.
Utu: favourable conditions for germination; warmth; season; physical compatibility
Vaca; word, speech
Vajrayana: ' Diamond Vehicle '; a form of Mahayana Buddhism, popular in Tibet
Vassa: rainy season; rainy season retreat
Vatthu: property, thing, story, site for a house.
Vayama: effort.
Văyo: air, wind element
Veda; sacred book of Hinduism, the collection of hymns.
Vedana: feeling, sensation, one of the five khandhas
Ven.: Abbreviation for 'Venerable'
Vibhava: non-existence, annihilation.
Vicikicchă : 
;
doubt
Vihara: sanctuary, chapel for the Buddha images; a dwelling place for the Buddhist monks, cave dwellings for monks
Vijja: science, highest knowledge.
Vimokkha: liberation from existence; Nibbana
Vimutti; release.
Vinaya: 
; the
Disciplinary Rules of the Order (the Samgha); strict guidelines for monks,
training, removal.
Vinicchaya:: decision, trial, judgment (given by the King or his Ministers) having the Vinaya as the Law Court.
Vinnana: consciousness, mind.
Vipaka: effect, results of kamma; fruit, consequence
Vipariyesa: contrariness; wrong state; reversal.
Vipassană: A major form of Meditation: inward vision, Insight, intropection, investigation in various way.
Viraga; devoid of lust.
Visakha(Wesak): : A month corresponding to the month of May-June. Festival of the Anniversary of the Buddha's Birth, Enlightenment and Parinibbana.
Visuddhi; purification.
Vyadhi: sickness.
Waso (B): Myanmar month covering parts of July and August.
Yagu: rice gruel.
Yakkhas: demon, attendants of the King of the northern direction.
Yama: celestial realm where pain has been eradicated
Yamaraja: king of Niraya
Yana: vehicle.
Yasodhară : Bhaddakaccăna; wife of Prince Siddhatta; brother of Devadatta.
Yathabuta: in reality, as things are, as it is.
Yoga: yoke, binding, restriction
Yogi: 
; a person who
practises Meditation
Yojana: unit of distance measure ( variously taken as approximately 7 to 12 miles); the word is often quoted in the Suttas
Zawgyi (B): alchemist.
Zayat (B): the spacious resting place for the worshippers.
Zei-di (B): Cetiya: Pahto, Thupa, Stupa.
Zen: form of Mahayana Buddhism in Japan. Chinese version is called Ch'an
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