Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Dhammapada 97 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


7 - Arahantavagga, The Arahat 
8 - Sariputtatthera Vatthu
Assaddho akatannu ca, sandhicchedo ca yo naro;
hatavakaso vantaso, sa ve uttamaporiso.
97. He who is not credulous, who has realized the Unconditioned (Nibbana), who has cut off the links of the round of rebirths, who has destroyed all consequences of good and bad deeds, who has discarded all craving, is indeed the noblest of all men (i.e., an arahat).
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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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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