UPED: user friendly pali english dictionary

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UPED: user friendly pali english dictionary

Add links to any SCDD message which contains useful pali/english definitions, translator’s essays on terms, etc.

User friendly for people not fluent in pali, so:

1. alphabetize things in English alphabetical order, treating special pali characters as the closest English equivalent letter.
2. use suttacentral citation style with modern numbering system for sutta references. No roman numerals.
3. Try to minimize alphabet soup crazy abbreviations like in PED. And if you use an abbreviation, define what it is.
4. It’s not printed paper, you don’t have to cram everything into an unreadable paragraph. Use line spacing liberally, make things clear.

Pali special numeric formulas/concepts

5abi, ariyo bhāvit’-indriyo:

• noble one’s developed faculties, 5 masteries of perception
• UPED 5abi

16 APS (Ānā-pāna-s-sati)

• 16 [steps] inhaling - exhaling - remembering
• Buddha’s commentary
• various EBT school commentary
• 16 APS perspective of Ajahn Brahm and Ajahn Brahmali

16 APSS (Ānā-pāna-s-sati-samādhi)

• exact same practice as 16 APS, only the name of practice has added description “samādhi” (undistractable-lucidity)

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Pali terms (clickable links)

abhidhamma

• sc intro by b.sujato
• discussion with b.sujato comments
• abhidhamma pitaka
  • b.bodhi definition, of Theravada and Sarvastivada Ab
• b.sujato essay, “mystique of abhidhamma”

adiṭṭhāna

• = commitment
• The suttas have nothing that corresponds to adiṭṭhāna in the sense of “resolve, determination (to attain Buddhahood in the future”.

appamāda

• = assiduity, diligence, heedfulness, carefulness
• UPED appamāda & pamāda
• Who’s the boss? appamada and yoniso-manasikara

aneka-vihitaṃ iddhi-vidhaṃ pacc-anu-bhoti: supernormal powers, #1 of 6 abhiñña

• UPED aneka-vihitaṃ iddhi-vidhaṃ pacc-anu-bhoti
• SN 51.22 Buddha’s instructions on levitation
• Buddhadust notes on abhiñña

ariyo bhāvit’-indriyo, noble one’s developed faculties

• see 5abi

buddha-anu-s-sati:

• buddha-recollection / remembrance
• I found my “Buddho”, on singular hill

caṅkama: walking meditation

• walking meditation, jhana in all 4 postures :

ek’-agga, ekaggatā

• = single-preoccupation (mind has only one predominant theme)
• UPED ekagga, ekodi, Ekaggatā, Ekodi-bhāva

ekodi, ekodi-bhāva

• ekodi = singular, ekodi-bhāva = become-singular, synonymous with ekagga
• UPED ekagga, ekodi, Ekaggatā, Ekodi-bhāva

kāya: body

• body: just as in English, kāya/body means a collection of things, not just the anatomical body. But in meditative contexts, such as MN 10, MN 119 kāya-anupassana, the flesh and blood physical body is the primary reference point from which other layered and more nuanced understandings of kāya may be built on top of.
• in 16 APS step 3, kāya is first and foremost the anatomical body.
  • Buddha’s commentary
  • various EBT school commentary

nimitta: sign

• ‘nimitta’ in context I: Vedic and Sanskrit (gabriel)
• Nimitta - a source collection (gabriel)
• pali term: nimitta (dmytro’s thread)

samādhi: undistractable-lucidity

• other common translations: concentration, composure
• UPED samādhi

samādhi-nimitta:

• undistractable-lucidity-sign (or theme)
• 42 EBT samadhi nimitta which feed 7sb

vicara

• Difference between vicara and vicāra

vicāra

• Difference between vicara and vicāra

Vitakka & Vicāra: directed-thought and evaluation of that very same directed-thought

• YARVVI Chronicles: V&V, Vitakka = directed-thoughts, Vicāra=Evaluation (of said Vitakka)

Vossaggga

• Vossagga [=ossagga; ava+sṛj] relinquishing, relaxation; handing over, donation, gift
• vossagga in 5 indriya samadhi

Related topics

Buddhadust glossology

Dmytro’s Pali Terms index

Pāli vocabulary list of super easy words to learn

Notes

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Other references

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