Pali terms translated
abhidhamma - the higher doctrine of Buddhism
akusala - unwholesome, unskillful
akusala kamma - a bad deed
anagami - person who has reached the 3rd stage of enlightenment, he has no aversion (dosa)
Ananda - the chief attendant of the Buddha
anatta - not self
Anuradhapura - old capital of Sri Lanka
arahat (arahant) - noble person who has attained the 4th and last stage of enlightenment
arammana - object which is known by consciousness
ariyan - noble person who has attained enlightenment
asammoha-sampajanna - comprehension of non-delusion
asavas - influxes or intoxicants, group of defilements
atta - self
Avanti - one of the 4 great monarchies in the time of the Buddha
ayatanas - sense-fields, manely the 5 senses and themind and the objects experienced by them
bhavana - mental development, comprising the development of calm and the development of insight
bhikkhu - monk
Buddhaghosa - the greatest of Commentators on thhe Tipitaka, author of the Visuddhimagga in 5AD
Buddha - a person who becomes fully enlightened without the aid of a teacher
cetasika - mental factor arising with consciousness
Cetiyapabbata - mountain in Sri Lanka on which there were many shrines
citta - consciousness, the reality which knows or cognizes an object
citta-passaddhi - calm of citta (consciousness)
dana - generosity, giving
dhamma - the teachings, the law, reality, truth
Digha Nikaya - the long discourse group, part of the Tipitaka
ditthi - wrong view, distorted view of realities
dosa - aversion
dosa-mula-citta - citta (consciousness) rooted in aversion
dukkha - suffering, unsatisfactoriness of conditioned realities
gocara-sampajanna - clear comprehension of the object of mindfulness
Haliddaka - a tumeric dyer
indriya - faculty, 'leader' in its own field. Some are rupas, such as the senses, some are namas such as consciousness or feeling. 5 'spiritual faculties' are wholesome qualities which should be cultivated, namely: confidence, energy, sati, concentration and wisdom.
indriyasamvara-sila - the virute of restraint of the faculties
jhana - absorption which can be attained through the developement of calm
jhanacitta - absorption consciousness attained through the development of calm
jhana factors - cetasikas which lead to jhana when cultivated
Kaccana the Great - eminent disciple of the Buddha, considered chief among expounders in full of the brief sayings of the Buddha
kamma - intention or volition; deed motivated by volition
kamma-condition - type of condition, capapble of producing good or bad results (vipaka)
Kammassadhamma - a town in Kuru, near the modern New Delhi
kaya - body. It can stand for the 'mental body', the cetasikas
kaya-passaddhi - calm of the cetasikas (mental factors)
kaya-vinnana - body-consciousness
Khanda-vagga - the 3rd book of the Kindred Sayings
khandhas - physical and mental phenomena of life, classified as 5 groups
Khemaka - a monk who became an arahant while explaining the dhamma to others
Kuru - a country at the time of the Buddha
kusala - wholesome, skilful
kusala kamma - a good deed
lobha - attachment, greed
lobha-mula-citta - consciousness rooted in attachment
lokuttara - supramundane citta, which experiences nibbana
Maha-vagga - the 5th book of the Kindred Sayings
Maha-Tissa - an arahant
metta - lovingkindness
miccha-samadhi - wrong concentration
moha - ignorance
moha-mula-citta - citta rooted in ignorance
nama - mental phenomena
nama-kkhandha - group of all mental phenomena
nama-rupa paricceda-nana - insight knowledge of the distinction between mental phenomena and physical phenomena
Nandaka - a monk declared by Buddha to be foremost among teachers of nuns
Pacceka Buddha - silent Buddha, a Buddha who does not teach
Pali - the language of the Buddhist teachings
panna - wisdom
Papancasudani - commentary to the Satipatthana Sutta
paramattha dhamma - truth in the absolute sense: mental and physical phenomena, each with their own characteristic
passaddhi - calm
piti - rapture, joy
Rahula - the Buddha's son
rupa - physical phenomena, realities which do not experience anything
rupa-kkhandha - group of all physical phenomena (rupas)
Salayatana-vagga - part of the Tipitaka containing Kindred Sayings on the '6-fold sphere' of sense and other subjects
sakkaya - group of existence
sakkaya ditthi - wrong view of personality, wrong view about the khandhas
samatha - the development of calm
sampajanna - discrimination, comprehension
sanna - memory, remembrance
sanna-khandha - memory classified as one of the 5 khandhas
sankhara-kkhandha - all cetasikas (mental factors) except feeling and memory
sappaya-sampajanna - comprehension of what is suitable, fitting
Sariputta - chief disciple of Buddha
sati - awareness, non-forgetfulness, awareness of reality by direct experience
sati-sampajanna - clear comprehension
satipatthana - direct understanding of realities
Satipatthana Sutta - Middle Length Sayings 1, number 10, also Digha Minkaya, dalogues 11, no. 22
Savatthi - one of the 6 great cities at the time of the Buddha
sila - morality, virtue
silabbata-paramasa - wrong practice
sobhana - beautiful
sotapanna - person who has attained the 1st stage of enlightenment, and who has eradicated wrong view of realities
Sujata - she gave food to the Buddha prior to his enlightenment
sukha - happy, pleasant
Sumangalavilasini - commentary to the Dialogues of the Buddha (Digha Nikaya)
sutta - part of the scriptures containing dialogues
suttanta - a sutta text
Tathagata - a fully enlightened person
Tipitaka - the teachings of the Buddha
uddhacca - restlessness
Ugga - a householder of Vesali, declared by Buddha to be the best of those who gave agreeable gifts
upacara-samadhi - access concentration
vedana-kkhandha - group of all feelings
vinaya - the rules for the monks
vinnana-kkhandha - all cittas (consciousness)
vipaka - result (of kamma) e.g. rebirth and during life, the experience of pleasant and unpleasant objects through the senses, such as seeing, hearing, etc.
vipassana - the development of insight
viriya - energy
Visuddhimagga - an encyclopaedia of the Buddha's teaching, written by Buddhaghosa in 5AD
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