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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Friday, October 16, 2015

Dhammapada 93 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


7 - Arahantavagga, The Arahat
4 - Anuruddhatthera Vatthu

Yassasa va parikkhina, ahare ca anissito;
sunnato animitto ca, vimokkho yassa gocaro;
akaseva sakuntanam, padam tassa durannayam.
93: The arahat is free from moral intoxicants (asavas); he is not attached to food. He has as his object liberation from existence, i.e., Nibbana which is Void and Signless. His path, like that of birds in the air, cannot be traced.
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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