A
abhūta - unoriginated
abyākata - undeclared, unexplained
abyāpāda - non-aversion
ācariya - teacher (may be same or different from
upajjhāya)
āciṇṇakamma - habitual kamma
adīnāva - danger, unsatisfactoriness,
inadequacy
adosa -
non-aversion (=
loving-kindness)
agatigamana - evil motives (four) :-
chanda - desire,
partiality
dosa -
hatred
moha -
delusion
bhaya - fear
ajāta - unborn
akata
- uncreated
akusala - unwholesome
Ālāra
Kālāma - the Bodhisatta's first meditation teacher
alobha
- non-greed (= detachment)
amatadhātu - the
deathless element
amatapada - the deathless
state
amoha - non-delusion (= wisdom,
understanding)
anāgāmimagga - path of
non-returner
anāgāmiphala - fruit of
non-returner
anāgāriya - homelessness
Ānanda -
the Buddha's personal attendant
ānāpānassati -
mindfulness of breathing
anattā - not
self
anattaniya - not belonging to a self, not related to
a self
anupadisesa nibbānadhātu - the nibbana element
without residues remaining
anusaya - latent
tendency
anuttara sammāsambodhi - supreme perfect
enlightenment
appanāsamādhi - absorption
concentration
apāyabhūmi - planes of
misery
arahat - an accomplished one, one who has reached
liberation while alive
arahattamagga - path of
arahatship
arahattaphala - fruit of
arahatship
ariya - noble; a noble
person
ariyasangha - community of noble
ones
ariya aṭṭhaṅgikamagga - the noble eightfold
path
arūpadhātu - immaterial realm, formless
realm
arūpa - formless meditative absorption or
attainment
(four)
ākāsānañcāyatana - sphere of infinite
space
viññāṇañcāyatana - sphere of infinite
consciousness
ākiñcaññāyatana - sphere of
nothingness
n'evasaññānāsaññāyatana - sphere of neither perception nor
non-perception
arūparāga - desire for immaterial
existence
assāda - satisfaction,
enjoyment
asaṅkhata - unconditioned
āsannakamma - death-proximate kamma
asura -
titan, "anti-god"
attā - self
attahita
- one's own welfare
attakilamathanuyoga - devotion
to self-mortification
avasavattitā - not subject to the
exercise of mastery
avihiṃsā (ahiṃsā) -
non-injury
avijjā - ignorance
āyatana -
sphere, realm
B
Bhagavā - the "Exalted One" (epithet of a
Buddha)
Bhante -
"venerable sir" (usual
way of addressing the Buddha)
bhava - existence
kammabhava -
kammically accumulative
existence
upapattibhava -
resultant
existence
bhāvanā -
development (of the
noble eightfold path)
bhavaṅga - the life continuum
bhavataṇhā - craving for existence
bhikkhu - a fully ordained monk
bhikkhunī - a fully ordained nun
bhikkhunīsangha - the order of fully ordained
nuns
bhikkhusangha -
the order of fully
ordained monks
Bodhisatta - one striving for complete
Buddhahood
brahmacariya - the holy life, celibacy
Brahmā Sahampati - the high divinity who urged the Buddha to
teach the Dhamma
brahmavihāra - sublime states, divine abodes (four)
:-
mettā -
loving-kindness
karuṇā - compassion
muditā -
sympathetic
joy
upekkhā -
equanimity
C
cāga - generosity
cakkavattirājā - universal monarch
cakkhukaraṇi - leading to vision
cattāri ariyasaccāni -
the four noble
truths
cetanā -
volition
chanda - desire (a neutral term, not necessarily
bad)
citta -
mind, thought moment,
mental act
citt'ekaggatā - one-pointedness of mind
citt'uppāda - same as citta above
cittānupassanā - contemplation of states of
mind
cittasantāna -
the mental
continuum
cīvara - the robes of a monk
D
dāna - giving
dasarājadhamma - ten royal
virtues
dāna -
generosity,
giving
sīla -
moral
discipline
pariccāga -
self-sacrifice
ajjava -
justice
maddava -
gentleness
tapa -
austerity
akkodha -
non-enmity
avihiṃsā -
non-violence
khanti -
patience
avirodha -
non-opposition (to the
will of the people)
dasasīla - the ten precepts (of a sāmaṇera)
dasasīlamātā - a ten precept-observing
nun
dasasīla upāsikā
- a woman observing the
ten precepts
deva -
god, heavenly
being
Dhamma - the Buddha's teaching; the truth
behind the teaching; the path
dhammacakka - the wheel of
Dhamma
dhammacakkhu - eye of Dhamma, insight into
truth
dhammānupassanā - contemplation of
mind-objects
dhātu - element
dīpa -
island
Dīpaṅkara - an ancient Buddha, the twenty
sixth before Gotama
diṭṭhadhamma attha - the benefit
pertaining to the present life
dosa - hatred,
aversion
dukkha - unsatisfactoriness, suffering
(sometimes untranslated)
dukkhadukkhatā - dukkha as
ordinary suffering
dukkhanirodha - the cessation of
suffering
dukkhanirodha ariyasacca - the noble truth of
the cessation of dukkha
dukkhanirodhagāminīpaṭipadā - the
way leading to the cessation of
dukkha
dukkhanirodhagāminīpaṭipadā ariyasacca - the noble
truth of the way leading to the cessation of
dukkha
dukkhasamudaya ariyasacca - the noble truth of the
origin of dukkha
dvāra - door of action (= body, speech,
mind)
G
gandhabba - the stream of consciousness ready to take
rebirth
ganthadhura -
the career of
study
garukakamma -
heavy
kamma
I
idappaccayatā -
conditionality
J
jarā - aging
jāti - birth
jhāna - (untranslated) meditative
absorption
jhānaṅga -
factor of absorption
(five)
vitakka -
initial
application
vicāra -
sustained
application
pīti -
rapture
sukha -
happiness
citt'ekaggatā -
one-pointedness of
mind
jīvitindriya -
the
life-faculty
K
kāmadhātu - sense sphere realm
kāmataṇhā - craving for sense
pleasures
kapilavatthu - the capital city of the
Sakyans
kāmasukhallikānuyoga - devotion to indulging in sense
pleasures
kamma -
volitional
action
kammabhava -
kammically accumulative
existence
kammaniyāma
- the order of kamma,
law of kamma
kammaṭṭhāna - meditation object
kammavaṭṭa - phase of kamma
kappa - an aeon, the lifespan of a world
system
kasiṇa -
disc-like object of
concentration
kaṭattakamma - miscellaneous kamma
kaṭhina - the ceremony of robes-offering, following
the end of the Vassa
kāyakamma - bodily action
kāyānupassanā - contemplation of the body
khandhaparinibbāna - the extinguishing of the
aggregate-continuum
khaṇika - momentary
khaṇikasamādhi - momentary concentration
kilesa - defilement, a mental unwholesome
state
kilesaparinibbāna - the extinguishment of
defilements
kilesavaṭṭa phase of defilements
kiriya - the action of an arahat, not
kamma
Koṇḍañña -
the seniormost of the
five ascetics; first monk-disciple of the Buddha
kusala - wholesome
Kusināra - the small town where the Buddha passed
away
L
lobha - greed
lokadhātu - world system
lokiya - mundane
lokiyamagga - mundane path
lokuttara - transcendental,
supramundane
lokuttaramagga - supramundane path
M
magga - path
maggaṅga - path factor
mahābhūta - primary elements (four)
paṭhavidhātu - the
earth-element
āpodhātu - the
water-element
tejodhātu - the
heat-element
vayodhātu - the air-element
mahākaruṇā -
great compassion
Mahāmāyā - Siddhattha's
mother
Mahāpajāpati Gotamī - the Buddha's foster-mother,
the first bhikkhuni
mahāpaññā - great
wisdom
mahāthera - a senior bhikkhu (of twenty years or
more seniority)
majjhimāpaṭipadā - the middle
way
māna - conceit
manokamma - mental
action
Māra - the Tempter, Buddhist personification of
desire
maraṇa - death
moha -
delusion
mūla - root
N
nāmarūpa - mentality-materiality
nāma -
mentality (feelings,
perceptions, mental
formations)
rūpa -
materiality (same as
aggregate of material form)
ñāṇakaraṇi - leading to knowledge
nekkhamma - renunciation
nibbāna - (untranslated, Sanskrit nirvana) the
unconditioned reality
niraya - hell
nirodha - cessation
nissaraṇa - release, escape
P
pabbajā - the "going forth", ceremony of initial
ordination into the order
paccaya - condition
pada - state
pahāna - abandonment (of craving)
pañcanīvaraṇā - the five
hindrances
kāmacchanda -
sensual
desire
byāpāda -
ill
will
thīnamiddha -
dullness and
drowsiness
uddhaccakukkucca -
restlessness and
worry
vicikicchā -
doubt
pañcasīla - the five precepts
pañcupadānakkhandhā -
the five aggregates of
clinging
paññā
- wisdom,
understanding
paññākkhandha - group of
wisdom
parahita - the welfare of
others
pārājika - four rules leading to expulsion from
order if violated
parama sukha - supreme
happiness
paramattha - the ultimate
benefit
pāramīs - sublime virtues perfected by a
bodhisatta
pārima tīra - the further
shore
parinibbāna - the final passing away (of a Buddha
or an arahat)
pariññā - full understanding (of
dukkha)
paritta - protective discourses recited by
monks
pariyatti - the study of the
Dhamma
pariyattidhamma - the study of
scriptures
pariyuṭṭāna - manifestation (of
defilements)
paṭicca samuppāda - dependent
arising
pātimokkha - code of 227 rules binding on
bhikkhus (core of the Vinaya)
paṭipāda -
way
paṭipatti - the practice of the
Dhamma
paṭipattidhamma - the practice of meditation
paṭisandhicitta - the relinking consciousness, rebirth
consciousness
paṭivedha - penetration, realization of
the Dhamma
pavāraṇa - the "invitation" to criticism,
closing ceremony of the Vassa
peta - afflicted spirit,
"hungry ghost"
phala - fruits of kamma
phassa -
contact
piṇḍapāta - almsfood
punabbhava
- repeated becoming, renewed existence
puthujjana -
ordinary person; a worldling
R
rāgakkhaya dosakkhaya mohakkhaya
- the destruction of
greed, hatred and delusion
Rāhula - Siddhatha's son
rūpa - materiality (same as aggregate of material
form)
rūpadhātu -
fine material realm,
realm of subtle materiality
rūpakkhandha - the aggregate of material
form
rūparāga -
desire for fine material
existence
S
sa-upādisesa nibbānadhātu -
the nibbana element with
residue remaining
sacca - truth
sacchikaraṇa - realization (of
nibbana)
sakadāgāmimagga - path of once-returner
sakadāgāmiphala - fruit of
once-returner
sakkāya
- the person, the
individual
sakkāyadiṭṭhi - personality view, view of a
self
Sakyamuni -
the sage of the Sakyans
(name for the Buddha Gotama)
Sakyans - a people of northeast India, among whom the
bodhisattha was born
saḷāyatana - the six sense faculties
samādhi - concentration
samādhikkhandha - group of concentration
sāmaṇera - a novice monk
samatha - serenity
samathayāna - the vehicle of serenity
sambodhi - enlightenment
sammā ājīva - right livelihood
sammādiṭṭhi - right view
sammākammanta - right action
sammāsamādhi - right concentration
sammāsaṅkappa - right intention
sammāvācā - right speech
sammā sati - right mindfulness
sammā vāyāma - right effort
sammutisangha - the Sangha established by
convention
samparāyika attha - the benefit pertaining to future
lives
saṃsāra -
the round of rebirths,
cyclic existence
samuccheda - eradication, cutting off
samudaya - origin
saṃyojana - fetters
sangahavatthu - bases of popularity (four)
:-
dāna -
giving
peyyavajja -
pleasant
speech
atthacariyā -
beneficial
conduct
samānattatā -
impartiality
Sanghamittā - daughter of King Asoka, established
bhikkhuni sangha in Sri Lanka
saṅkhāra - volitional formations
saṅkhāradukkhatā - dukkha of conditioned
formations
saṅkhārakkhandha - the aggregate of mental
formations
saṅkhata -
conditioned
saññākkhanda - the aggregate of
perception
santi -
peace
saraṇagamana - going for refuge
sāsana - the dispensation of the
Buddha
sassatavāda -
eternalistic
view
satipaṭṭhāna -
foundation of
mindfulness, arousing of mindfulness
sāvakasangha - community of (noble)
disciples
Siddhattha
Gotama - the actual name
of the Buddha
sīlabbataparāmāsa - clinging to rules and
observances
sīlakkhanda - group of moral discipline
sotāpanna - stream enterer
sotāpattimagga - path of stream entry
sotāpattiphala - fruit of stream entry
Sumedha - name of the ascetic who eventually became
the Buddha Gotama
Suddhodana - Siddhattha's father, king of the
Sakyans
T
taṇhā - craving
taṇhākkhaya - the destruction of
craving
Tathāgata -
the "Perfect One"
(epithet of a Buddha)
thera - a senior bhikkhu (of ten years or more
seniority)
Theravāda - "school of the elders", the oldest
continuous school of Buddhism
Therīgāthā - "verses of the arahat nuns", a book of the
Sutta-pitaka
ṭhitassa
aññatthatta - the
transformation of that which endures
tilakkhaṇa - the
three characteristics of
existence
aniccatā -
impermanence
dukkhatā - unsatisfactoriness,
suffering
anattatā - selflessness, egolessness
Tipiṭaka -
the three "baskets" or collections of Buddhist
scriptures
Vinayapiṭaka - the collection of monastic
disciplines
Suttapiṭaka - the collection of the Buddha's discourses and
sermons
Abhidhammapiṭaka - the collection of psycho-philosophical
treatises
U
ucchedavāda -
annihilationist
view
Udaka Rāmaputta
- the Bodhisatta's
second meditation teacher
upacārasamādhi - access concentration
upādāna - clinging
upādārūpa, upādāya rūpa -
derivative material
form
upajjhāya -
preceptor
uppāda - arising
upapattibhava - resultant existence
upasama - peace
upasampadā - ceremony of full ordination as a
bhikkhu
uposatha -
observance day, held on
full moon and new moon days
V
vacīkamma - verbal action
vasadhura - the career of meditation
practice
vassa -
the three month "rains
residence" for bhikkhus, from July to October
vatthurūpa - the material basis of
mind
vaya -
passing away,
destruction
vedanā -
feeling
vedanākkhanda - the aggregate of feeling
vedanānupassanā - contemplation of feelings
vibhavataṇhā - craving for
non-existence
vikkhambhana - suppression
vimutti - liberation
Vinaya - the monastic discipline
viññāṇa - consciousness
viññāṇakkhanda - the aggregate of
consciousness
vipāka
- results of
kamma
vipākavaṭṭa -
phase of
resultants
vipallāsa
- perversions
saññāvipallāsa -
perversion of
perception
cittavipallāsa -
perversion of
thought
diṭṭhivipallāsa -
perversion of
views
vipariṇāmadukkhatā - dukkha due to change
vipassanā - insight
vipassanāyāna - the vehicle of insight
virāga - dispassion
visuddhi - purity
vītikkama - transgression
Y
Yasodharā - wife of Siddhattha
yathābhūtañāṇadassana - knowing and seeing things as they really
are
yoniso manasikāra
- wise
consideration