Sunday, April 30, 2017

Dhammapada 113 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


8 - Sahassavaggo, Thousands
12 - Patacaratheri Vatthu

Yo ca vassasatam jive, apassam udayabbayam;
ekaham jivitam seyyo, passato udayabbayam.
113: Better than a hundred years in the life of a person who does not perceive the arising and the dissolving of the five aggregates (khandhas), is a day in the life of one who perceives the arising and dissolving of the five aggregates.
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Saturday, April 29, 2017

Dhamma Terms (83)


ပန္းဆြဲ /pan: zwe:/ 
n 1 floral accents festooned on the 'inverted alms bowl', or middle part of a pagoda. 2 barge-board.
ပန္းတင္ခံု /pan: tin goun/ n See ပန္းတည္ခံု
ပန္းတည္ခံု /pan: ti goun/ n plinth of a stupa.
ပိႏၷဲတိုင္ /pein: ne: dain/ n shaft to hold the umbrella of a pagoda. 2 king-post.
ပဗၺဇၨ /pa' ba' za./ n 1 ordination into monkhood. 2 monkhood. [Pali ပဗၺဇၨ]
ပုဗၺေစတနာ /pou' ba. sei dana/

n foremost intent formed in one's mind (to do a charitable deed.) See also မုုၪၥေစတနာ၊ အပရေစတနာ. [Pali ပုဗၺေစတနာ]
ပုဗၺနိမိတ္ /pou' ba. namei'/ n omen; portent. [Pali ပုဗၺနိမိတၱ]
ပုဗၺဝိေဒဟ /pou' ba. wi. dei ha./

n [cosmol] great island which is the home of the Albizzia lebbek (ကုကၠဳိ) tree and lies east of Mount Meru. Same as အေ႐ွ႕ကြၽန္း. [Pali ပုဗၺဝိေဒဟ]
ပုေဗၺနိဝါသဉာဏ္ /pou' bei ni. watha. njan/ 
n faculty to recall past existences. [Pali ပုေဗၺနိဝါသ + ဉာဏ]
ပလႅင္ပ /palin/ n throne; altar. [Pali ပလႅကၤ]
ပုလႅိင္ /poun: lein/ n [gram] masculine gender. [Pali ပုလႅိဂၤ]
ပ်ံေတာ္မူ /pjan do mu/ v (of monks) die; pass away. Same as ပ်ံလြန္.
ပ်ံ႕လြင့္ /pjan. lwin./ v wander (as in စိတ္ ~ -- ); 2 drift (as in မီးခိုး ~-- )
 

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