Thursday, February 18, 2016

Dhamma Terms (69)


နတ္ျပည္ /na' pji/ n abode of celestial beings.
နတ္ျပည္ေျခာက္ထပ္ /na' pji chau' hta'/

n six-tiered abode of celestial beings (namely စတုမဟာရာဇ္၊ တုသိတာ၊ တာဝတႎသာ၊ ယာမာ၊ နိမၼာနရတိ၊ ပရနိမၼိတဝသဝတၱိ).
နတ္႐ြာစံ /na' jwa san/ v (of a royal personage) die; pass away).
နတ္လမ္း /na' lan:/ n approach ramp to a pagoda, monastery or the catafalque of a deceased monk.
နတ္လမ္းၫႊန္ /na' lan: hnjun/

n guidebook written in the manner of an oracle. V guide sb well (to a certain destination).
နတ္ဝင္ /na' win/ v Same as နတ္ပူး v.
နတ္ဝွက္ /na' hwe'/ v be rendered invisible by nats; be hidden by nats from view.
နတ္သမီး /na' thami:/ n 1 female nat.
နတ္သုဓာ /na' thou' da/ n ambrosia. Pali [နာထ+သုဓာ]
နတ္သက္ေၾကြ /na' the' kjwei/ v (of a nat) die.
နတၳိ /na' hti./ v not exist; not to have; be non-existent. [Pali နတၳိ]
နိေဒၵသ /nei' dei tha./ n expression. cf. ဥေဒၵသ. [Pali နိေဒၵသ]
နႏၵမူလိုဏ္ /nan damuhlain/

n [Buddhist scriptures] grotto located in Mount Gandhamadana, where lesser Buddhas sojourn. [Pali နႏၵမူလ+ေလဏ]

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Dhammapada 96 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


7 - Arahantavagga, The Arahat
7 - Kosambivasitissattherasamanera Vatthu

Santam tassa manam hoti, santa vaca ca kamma ca;
sammadanna vimuttassa, upasantassa tadino.
96: An arahat is calm in his mind, calm in his speech, and also in his deed; truly knowing the Dhamma, such an arahat is free from moral defilements and is unpurturbed by the ups and downs of life.
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Dhamma Terms (68)

နိစၥဓူဝ /nei' zadu wa./ adv always. [Pali နိစၥဓူဝ]
နိစၥဘတ္ဆြမ္း /nei' zaba' hsun:/ n daily food offerings to monks. [Pali နိစၥဘတၱ+Myan ဆြမ္း]
နိစၥသီလ /nei' sa. thila/ n precepts to be observed always; the five precepts. [Pali နိစၥသီလ]
နိ႒ိတံ /nei' hti. tan/ v end; conclude. [Pali နိ႒ိတ]
နတ္ /na'/

n nat: opulent, resplendent being worthy of veneration; lord; protector (formally recognised as consisting of three forms_သမၼဳတိ~ lord by popular acclaim, or king; ဥပပတၱိ~ lord reincarnated as a fully matured being, or celestial lord, and ဝိသုဒၶိ~ Virtuous Lord, or Lord Buddha. However, reference to devas or celestial beings, as in ~ ေဒဝတာ and the nat spirits, as in ~ ခ်င္း၊ ဦး႐ွင္ၾကီး~ has the highest currency in usage). [Pali နာထ]
နတ္ကိုး /na' kou:/ v 1 make offerings to a nat. 2 believe in or worship nats.
နတ္ၾကီး /na' kji:/ 

v (of a region or area where the guardian spirit) reigns supreme and does not tolerate any misbehaviour.
နတ္ၾကမ္း /na' kjan:/ v Same as နတ္ၾကီး v .
နတ္ေတာ္ /nado/ n Nadaw: ninth month of the year, containing 29 days.
နတ္ေနကိုင္း /na' nei gain:/ n topmost branch of a tree.
နတ္ပူး /na' pu:/ v be possessed by a nat.

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Dhammapada 95 [Khuddaka Nikaya]

7 - Arahantavagga, The Arahat
6 - Sariputtatthera Vatthu
Pathavisamo no virujjhati, indakhilupamo tadi subbato;
rahadova apetakaddamo, samsara na bhavanti tadino.
95: Like the earth, the arahat is patient and is not provoked to respond in anger; like the door-post he is firm; he is unperturbed by the ups and downs of life; he is serene and pure like a lake free from mud. For such an arahat there will be no more rebirth.
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Dhamma Terms (67)


ေနလြဲညစာ /nei lwe: nja. za/ n food taken after midday (prohibited to Buddhists observing sabbath).
ေနရာထိုင္ /nei jahtain/ n mat on which monks usually sit. See also နိသီဒိုင္.
ေနမိဇာတ္ /nei mi. za'/ 

n the fourth of the Ten Great Jataka (Jataka 541). See also ဇာတ္ၾကီးဆယ္ဘြဲ႔. [Pali ေနမိ+ဇာတက]
ေန႔ၾကီးရက္ၾကီး /nei. gji: je' kji:/ n days of special significance (religious, etc).
ေန႔ဆြမ္း /nei. zun:/ n meal offered to monks before noon. See also အ႐ုဏ္ဆြမ္း.
ေန႔ထူးေန႔ျမတ္ /nei. du: nei. mja'/ n Same as ေန႔ၾကီးရက္ၾကီး n.
နိကၡမ /nei' khama./ n renunciation. [Pali နိကၡမ]
နိဂၢဟိတ္ /nei' gahei'/

n [orth] superscripted dot (_ံ) used in combination with the အ /a./, အိ /i./, အု /u./ vowels to effect အံ /an/, အႎ /ein/, အံု /oun/ sounds. Also ေသးသးတင္. [Pali နိဂၢဟိတ]
ေနာင္တ /naun da./ n repentance; remorse; regret.
ေနာင္တရ /naun da. ja./ v be repentant; regret.
ေနာင္ဘဝ /naun bawa./ n the future existence.
နိစၥ /nei' sa./ n perpetuity; constancy. [Pali နိစၥ]

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Dhamma Terms (66)


နိမိတ္ /namei'/ n omen; sign; portent. [Pali နိမိတၱ]
နိမိတ္ၾကီးေလးပါး /namei' kji: lei:ba:/

n vission of four persons the aged, the sick, the death and the recluse as seen by the Bodhisattva Prince Siddhartha.
နိမိတ္ျပ /namei' pja./ v presage; show signs of a coming event.
နိမိတ္ျပေမးခြန္း /namei' pja. mei: gun:/ n leading question.
နိမိတ္ဖတ္ /namei' hpa'/ v 1 interpret omens. 2 foretell.
နိယတဗ်ာဒိတ္ /ni. jata. bja dei'/

n explicit prophecy of a Buddha (such as sb will attain enlightenment, etc). [Pali နိယတ+ဗ်ာဒိတၱ]
နိယာမ /ni. ja ma./
n 1 nature; law of nature. 2 law; principle as in အာခိမိဒိ္စ္နိယာမဟူ၍ ~ တစ္ရပ္႐ွိ --). [Pali နိယာမ]
နိယံ /ni. jan/ adv always. n compendium on grammar, etc rendered in mnemonic verses. [Pali နိယာမ]
နိေရာဓသစၥာ /ni.jo: da. thi' sa/ n Noble Truth of Cessation of Suffering. [Pali နိေရာဓ+သစၥ]
နိ႐ုတၱိနည္း /ni. rou' ti. ni:/

n grammatical techniques concerning the elision, appending or transposition of letters. cf ဝဏၰေလာပနည္း. [Pali နိ႐ုတၱိ+နယ]
နိဝါတ /ni. wa ta./ n humility. [Pali နိဝါတ]
နိသီဒိုင္ /ni. thi dain/ n Same as ေနရာထိုင္ n. [Pali နိသီဒန]
 

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Monday, November 9, 2015

Dhammapada 94 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


7 - Arahantavagga, The Arahat
5 - Mahakaccayanatthera Vatthu

Yassindriyani samathangatani, assa yatha sarathina sudanta
pahinamanassa anasavassa, devapi tassa pihayanti tadino.
94: The arahat whose sense-faculties are calm like horses well-tamed by the charioteer, who is free from pride and moral intoxicants - such an arahat is held dear even by the devas.
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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