Glossary

WORD / PALI /BURMESE

MEANING

WORD / PALI /BURMESE

MEANING

Anapanna (အာနာပါန)

Piti (ပီတိ)

observation of natural and normal breath at the tip of the nose

Joy; delight; to be delighted

Anapannasati (အာနာပါနသတိ)

constant and continuous mindfulness of natural and normal breath at the tip of the nose

Samadhi (သမာဓိ)

deep concentration; (1) Parikamma samadhi = preliminary concentration (2) Upacara Samadhi = access [medium] concentration (3) Appana Samadhi = deep concentration

Arhat/Arahant (ရဟန္တာ)

(Sanskrit: “one who is worthy”), a person who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has achieved the last step to gain Nirvana

Samatha (သမထ)

meditation to attain tranquility and peace of mind

Bikkhave (ဘိက္ခေဝေ)

monks

Bikkhu (ဘိက္ခူ)

monk

Samatha Yanika (သမထယာနိက)

practice of meditation to attain tranquility and peace of mind

Samudaya (သမုဒယ)

desires; cravings; love; attachment

Cha Chakka Sutta (စစက္ကသုတ္တ)

The Discourse on the Six Sets of Six; It describes the processes of six senses that lead to the arising of suffering (dukkha)

Satipatthana (သတိပဌာန)

the establishment of mindfullness; foundation of mindfulness

Citta-Nupassana (စိတ္တနုပဿနာ)

contemplation of the conciousness or the mind; watching the mind by the mind

Dhamma (ဓမ္မ)

teachings of Buddha

Sutta (သုတ္တ)

discourse of Buddha; teachings of Buddha

Jhana ( )

meditation

Vipassana (ဝိပဿနာ)

(in Theravada Buddhism) meditation to concentrate on the body or its sensations, or the insight which this provides.

Mindfulness (သတိ)

mental state of being conscious or aware of a particular subject

Yogi (ယောဂီ)

practitioner of Yoga or meditation