Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Dhammapada 111 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


8 - Sahassavaggo, Thousands
10 - Khanu Kondannatthera Vatthu

Yo ca vassasatam jive, duppanno asamahito;
ekaham jivitam seyyo, pannavantassa jhayino.
111: Better than a hundred years in the life of an ignorant person, who has no control over his senses, is a day in the life of a wise man who cultivates Tranquillity and Insight Development Practice.
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Dhamma Terms (81)


ပစၥယာ /pji' saja/ n any of the terraces (usually three of a pagoda. [Pali ပစၥယာ]
ပေစၥကဗုဒၶါ /pji' sei ka. bou' da/

n Buddha who attained enlightenment but did not preach; lesser Buddha. [Pali ပေစၥကဗုဒၶ]
ပစၥကၡ /pji' se' kha./ n the present. [Pali ပစၥက]
ပစၥည္းေလးပါး /pji' si: lei: ba:/

n four things that the buddha has permitted monks to accept as offerings i.e. monastery, robe, food and medicine.
ပစၥႏၲရစ္ /pji' san dari'/ 
n outlying areas of a kingdom; remote parts of a country; backwater. [Pali ပစၥႏၲရ႒]
ပစၥဳပၸန္ /pji' sou' pan/ n the present.[Pali ပစၥဳပၸႏၷ]
ပုစၧာ /pou' hsa/ n question; riddle; problem. [Pali ပုစၧာ]
ပဇၨဳန္ /pji'zoun/ n 1 god of rain. 2 rain, [Pali ပဇၨဳႏၷ]
ပၪၥ /pjin sa./ adj five [Pali ပၪၥ]
ပၪၥမ /pjin sama./ n fifth. [Pali ပၪၥမ]
ပၪၥေလာဟာ /pjin sa. Lo: ha/ 

n alloy of gold, silver, copper, iron and lead. [Pali ပၪၥေလာဟ]
ပၪၥဝဂၢီ /pjin sa.we'gi/ 
n the first five monks who receivrd the dhamachakra (ဓမၼစၾကာ) from the Buddha. [Pali ပၪၥဝဂၢီ]
ပၪၥသီလ /pjin sa. thi la./
n the five precepts of Buddhism (1 kill not, 2 steal not, 3 commit not adultery, 4 lie not, 5 drink not intoxicants). [Pali ပၪၥ+သီလ]

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