Monday, December 26, 2016

Dhamma Terms (79)


ပါရဂူ /pa ragu/ n 1 specialist. 2 Doctor of Philosophy. [Pali ပါရဂူ]

ပါရမီ /pa rami/ n 1. accquired virtue. 2 aptitude. [Pali ပါရမီ]

ပါရမီဆယ္ပါး /pa rami hse ba:/

n the ten principal virtues, namely ဒါန၊ သီလ၊ နိကၡမ၊ ပညာ၊ ဝီရိယ၊ သစၥာ၊ ခႏၲီ၊ ေမတၱာ၊ ဥေပကၡာ၊ အဓိ႒ာန္.

ပါရမီျဖည့္ /pa rami hpjei./ 
v 1 strive to attain the virtues. 2 help others to attain the virtues.

ပါဠိ /pa li./ n Pali, the Prakrit language of the Buddhist Scriptures. [Pali ပါဠိ]

ပါဠိေတာ္ /pa li. do/ n the teaching of the Lord Buddha.

ပိဋက /bi. daga./ n Buddhist Scriptures. [Pali ပိဋက]

ပိဋကတ္ /bi. daga'/ 
n the Pitakas; the three repositories of Buddhist Scriptures. Also တိပိဋက. [Pali ပိဋကတၱယ]

ပီတိ /piti./ n delight; joy; elation; euphoria. [Pali ပီတိ]

ပီယဝါစာ /pi ja wa sa/ n sweet and pleasing words or manner of talking. [Pali ပီယဝါစာ]

ပုတီးစိပ္ /badi: sei'/ 
v tell (one's) beads. /badi: zei'/ n ritual Pali stanzas recited by a novice when telling his beads.

ပုထုဇဉ္ /pu. htu. zin/ 
n ordinary human being (with the usual failings and foibles. [Pali ပုထုဇန]

ပုထိုး /pahtou:/ n stupa with a vaulted base. [Pali ဗုေဒၶါ / ထူပ]

ပုရိမဝါ /pu. ri. ma. wa/ 
n Buddhist lent beginning from first waning day of ဝါဆိုလ. [Pali ပုရိမ+Sans ...]

ပူေဇာ္ /pu zo/ v 1 worship. 2 make a devotional offering. [Pali ပူဇာ]

ပူေဇာ္သကာ /pu zo thaka/ n Same as ပူေဇာ္သကၠာရ n. [Pali ပူဇာသကၠာရ]

ပူေဇာ္သကၠာရ /pu zo the' ka ja./ n act of offering sth reverently. [Pali ပူဇာသကၠာရ]





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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Dhammapada 108 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


8 - Sahassavaggo, Thousands
7 - Sariputtattherassa sahayaka brahmana Vatthu 

Yamkinci yittham va hutam va loke, samvaccharam yajetha punnapekkho;
sabbampi tam na catubhagameti, abhivadana ujjugatesu seyyo.
108: In this world, one may make sacrificial offerings, great and small, all the year round, in order to gain merit; all these offerings are not worth a quarter of the merit gained by worshipping the Noble Ones (Ariyas) who walk the right path.
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Dhamma Terms (78)


ပဝါရဏာ /pawa rana/ 
n ceremony held at the end of the Buddhist lent where a monk has to ask other monks to reprimand hin for any sin he may have committed. [Pali ပဝါရဏာ]
ပေဝဏီ /pawei ni/ n tradition; custom; usage. [Pali ပေဝဏီ]
ပေဝသဏီ /pawei thani/ n ancienttime. [Pali ပေဝဏိ] 

ပဝတၱိ /pa wu' ti./ n 1 time from conception to death. 2 place where one grew up. [Pali ပဝတၱိ]
ပသာဒ /patha da./ n 1 any one of the five senses. 2 pleasant sight. [Pali ပသာဒ]
ပသာဒ႐ုပ္ /patha da. jou'/ n sensory receptor.
ပေဟဠိ /pahe li./ n puzzle; riddle. [Pali ပေဟလိ]
ပဟိုရ္ /pa hou/ 

n 1 Same as ပဟိုရ္စည္ n. 2 unit of time based on the clepsydra equivalent to three on a modern clock. [Pali ပဟာရ]
ပါစက /pa saka./ n ability of the gastrointestinal system to 'cook' and digest food. [Pali ပါစက]
ပါဏာတိပါတ္ /pa na ti. pa'/ n taking of life [Pali ပါဏာတိပါတ]
ပါဏုေပတံ /pa nu. pei tan/ adv for life; for a lifetime; through one's life. [Pali ပါဏုေပတံ]
ပါဒ /pa da./ n 1 division or line from a stanza of Pali verse. 2 foot; metrical unit of verse. [Pali ပါဒ]
ပါေမာကၡ /pa mau' kha./ n 1 chief; head. 2 professor/ [Pali ပါေမာကၡ]

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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Dhammapada 107 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


8 - Sahassavaggo, Thousands
6 - Sariputtattherassa bhagineyya Vatthu

Yo ca vassasatam jantu, aggim paricare vane.
ekanca bhavitattanam, muhuttamapi pujaye.
sa yeva pujana seyyo, yance vassasatam hutam.
107: For a hundred years, a man may tend the sacred fire in the forest: yet if, only for a moment, one pays homage to a bhikkhu who has practised Insight Development, this homage is, indeed, better than a hundred years of making sacrifices (in fire-worship).
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Friday, October 28, 2016

Dhamma Terms (77)


ပရိယတ္ /pari. ja'/ n study of ပိဋကတ္. [Pali ပရိယတၱိ]
ပရိယာယ္ /pari. je/ 

n 1 synonym 2 oblique or indirect reference. 3 stratagen; deception; ruse. [Pali ပရိယာယ]
ပရိဝုဏ္ /parawoun/ n wall or fencing around a religious structure. Also ပရဝဏ္. [Pali ပရိေဝဏ]
ပရိဟာရ /pari. ha ra./ n explanation. [Pali ပရိဟာရ]
ပရံပရ /paran para./ n previous existences. [Pali ပရံပရ]
ပရိကၡရာ /parei' khaja/

n prescribed articles for use by Buddhist monks (which are 1 သင္းပိုင္၊ 2 ဧကသီ၊ 3 ႏွစ္ထပ္သကၤန္း or ဒုကုဋ္၊ 4 သပိတ္၊ 5 ပဲခြပ္ or သင္တုန္းဓား၊ 6 အပ္၊ 7 ခါးပန္းၾကဳိး၊ 8 ေရစစ္). [Pali ပရိကၡာရ]
ပရိစၥာဂ /parei' sa ga./ n charity/ [Pali ပရိစၥာဂ]
ပရိ္တ္ /parei' (pajei')/ n Sutta to ward off evil or harm. [Pali ပရိ္တၱ]
ပရိ္တ္ၾကီး /parei' (pajei') kji:/ n Pali verse consisting of the eleven prescribed sutta.
ပရိ္တ္ခ်ည္ /parei' (pajei') chi/ n reel of cotton thread endowed with powers through recitation of ပရိ္တ္.
ပရိ္တ္ပန္း /parei' (pajei') pan:/ n flowers endowed with powers through recitation of ပရိ္တ္.
ပရိ္တ္မႊန္း /parei' (pajei') hmun:/ n eulogy describing the origin and beneficial power of ပရိ္တ္.
ပရိ္တ္ေရ /parei' (pajei') jei/ n water endowed with powers through recitation of ပရိ္တ္.
ပရိ္တ္႐ြတ္ /parei' (pajei') ju'/ vrecite ပရိ္တ္.
ပလိေဗာဓ /pali. bo da./ n anxiety. [Pali ပလိေဗာဓ] 


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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Dhammapada 106 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


8 - Sahassavaggo, Thousands
5 - Sariputtattherassa Matula Brahmana Vatthu

Mase mase sahassena, yo vajetha satam samam;
ekanca bhivatattanam, muhuttamapi pujaye;
sa yeva pujana seyyo, yance vassasatam hutam.
106: Month after month for a hundred years, one may make offerings (to ordinary people) to the value of a thousand Kahapanas; yet if, only for a moment one pays homage to a bhikkhu who has practised Insight Development, this homage is, indeed, better than a hundred years of making offerings (to ordinary people).
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Dhamma Terms (76)


ပရမာဏုျမဴ /parama nu. mju/ 
n [Buddhist Scriptures] particle which is 1/36 of အဏုျမဴ (action of matter) [Pali ပရမာဏု+Myan ျမဴ ]
ပရေမ /paramei/ n exellence; the best. [Pali ပရမ]
ပရမတ္ /parama'/ 

n inviolable nature; ultimate reality; absolute truth. cf ပညတ္. [Pali ပရမတၳ]
ပရမတၳတရား /parama' hta. taja:/ n Same as ပရမတ္ n.
ပရေလာက /para. lo: ka./ n the next existence. [Pali ပရ+ေလာက]
ပရဝဏ္ /parawun/ n Same as ပရဝုဏ္ n. [Pali ပရိေဝဏ]
ပရဟိတ /para. hi. ta./ n good or welfare of others. [Pali ပရဟိတ]
ပရိကံ /pari. gan/ n pre-arrangements; preparation; prelude. [Pali ပရိကမၼ]
ပရိေဒဝ /pari. dei wa./ n lamentation; grief; sorrow. [Pali ပရိေဒဝ]
ပရိနိဗၺာန္ /parei' nei' ban/ 

n Parinirvana; Parinibbana; release from cravings and attachment to life; annihilation of being. [Pali ပရိိဗၺာန]
ပရိနိဗၺာန္စံ /parei' nei' ban san/ 
v (of the Buddha and arhats) attain Nirvana, cessation of srife; pass away. [Pali နိဗၺာန+Myan စံ]
ပရိဗုိဇ္ /parabai'/ n intinerant heretic. [Pali ပရိဗၺာဇက]
ပရိေဘာဂေစတီ /pari. bo: ga. zedi/

n 1 utensils used by the Buddha which are objects of veneration. 2 pagoda wherein the Buddha's utensils are enshrined as relics.
ပရိေယသန /pari. jei thana./ n 1 striving for one's sustenance. 2 livelihood. [Pali ပရိေယသန]
 

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