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Pali - English
Glossary
Ariyas: Noble Ones
Arahant:
"worthy one" or "pure one"
Appamanna: infinite or
boundless
Apaya: realm
of destitution.
Akusala:
unskillful
Anatta:
not-self
Asankhata: unfabricated
Avijja: ignorance
Ayatana: medium
Bhikkhu:
monk
Bhikkhuni: nun
Bhavana: contemplation
or development
*Bhanga-nana:
insight knowledge of arising and passing away
Bhava: becoming
Bodhi:
awakening
Bodhisatta: "A being striving for Awakening"
Cetana:
intention
Citta: mind
Chanda: desire
Dana: generosity
Dvaras: sense-doors
Desana:
Teachings
Devas: celestial beings
Dhatu:
property
Ditthi: view
Dosa: hatred
Domanassa: dejection
Dukkha: suffering, stress
Dhamma: Teaching, quality, phenomenon
Gatha: verse
Hiri: conscience
Iriyapathas:
postures
Issa: envy
Jati: birth
Jara: old age
Jhana:
mental absorption
Karuna:
compassion
Kilesa: defilements
Khandha: aggregate
Khanti: patience
Kama: sensuality
Kamma: intentional act
Kusala:
skillful
Loba: greed
Loka:
world
Lokuttara: transcendent
Mahakaruna:
great compassion
Marana: death
Marananussati: contemplation on the nature of death
Mara: personification of evil and temptation
*Magga-phala-nana:
Path
and fruition knowledge
Mudita: sympathic joy
Micchaditthi: false
views
Metta, friendliness or
loving-kindness
Moha:
delusion
Namarupa:
body/mind
Nana: self-conceit
Nimitta: sign
*Nibbida:
disenchantment
Nibbana: "unbinding" of the mind from passion, aversion,
and delusion
Nivaranas: hindrances
Nana: knowledge
Pali: canon
of texts of Theravada Buddhism.
Panna: discernment
Pancasila: five
precepts
Puthujjanas: worldlings
Paramitas:
perfections
Paticca
samuppada: dependent co-arising
Raga:
passionate feeling of attachment
Sakkayaditthi: false view
of Self.
Sati:
mindfulness
Sanna: perception
Samsara: floating and drifting in the whirlpool of endless
existences
Samanera:
novice monk
Samatha: tranquility
Samadhi: concentration
Sotapatti:
stream-entry
Samudaya: origination
Sankappa: resolve
Saddha:conviction
Sankhara: fabrication
Samana:
contemplative
Sunnata:
emptiness
Satipatthana:
frame of reference
Sampajanna:
alertness
Sila: morality
Sasana: dispensation
Tanha:
cravings
Tri Lakkhana: three characteristics of existence
Upadana:
clinging
Upekkha: equanimity
Vassa:
rains retreat
Visuddhimagga:
The Path of Purification
Viriya:
persistence
Viraga:
dispassion
Vimutti: release
Vicikiccha: doubts
Vitakka:
directed thought
Vicara: evaluation
Vipassana:
insight
Vinaya: monastic discipline
Vihara: abiding
Vayodhatu:
air element
Yogi:
meditator
Yeiktha: meditation centre
*Vipassana
Nanas: the insight knowledges:
1. Namarupa
Pariccheda: knowledge of the distinction between body/mind.
2. Paccaya Pariggaha: knowledge of conditionality, i.e. cause
and effect.
3. Sammasana: knowledge by comprehension, which sees the 3
characteristics (Tri Lakkhana).
4. Udayabbaya: knowledge of arising and passing away (anicca).
5. Bhanga: knowledge of dissolution, endings, deasings.
6. Bhaya: knowledge of the fearful nature of body/mind.
7. Adinava: knowledge of misery ( seeing mind/body as peril,
danger).
8. Nibbida: knowledge of disenchantment. (dispassion arises).
9. Muncitkayata: knowledge of the desire for deliverance.
10. Patisankha: knowledge which investigates the Path to Deliverance.
11. Sankharupeckkha: knowledge with equanimity towards formations
of body/mind.
12. Anuloma: knowledge of adaption. knowledge which conforms
with Ariya Sacca.
13. Gotrabhu: maturity knowledge (change of lineage) knowledge
which cuts off worldly states.
14. Magga: Path knowledge - cessation - Supramundane knowledge.
15. Pala: fruition knowledge.
16. Paccavekkhana: retrospective knowledge - knowledge which
retrospects the remaining kileas.
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