Pali - English Glossary

Ariyas: Noble Ones
Arahant: "worthy one" or "pure one"
Appamanna: infinite or boundless
Apaya:
realm of destitution.
Akusala: unskillful
Anatta: not-self
Asankhata: unfabricated
Avijja: ignorance
Ayatana: medium
Bhikkhu: monk
Bhikkhuni: nun
Bhavana: contemplation or development
*Bhanga-nana: insight knowledge of arising and passing away
Bhava: becoming
Bodhi: awakening
Bodhisatta: "A being striving for Awakening"
Cetana: intention
Citta: mind
Chanda: desire
Dana: generosity
Dvaras: sense-doors
Desana: Teachings
Devas: celestial beings
Dhatu: property
Ditthi: view
Dosa:
hatred
Domanassa: dejection
Dukkha:
suffering, stress
Dhamma: Teaching, quality, phenomenon
Gatha: verse
Hiri: conscience
Iriyapathas: postures
Issa: envy
Jati: birth
Jara: old age
Jhana: mental absorption
Karuna: compassion
Kilesa: defilements
Khandha: aggregate
Khanti: patience
Kama:
sensuality
Kamma: intentional act
Kusala: skillful
Loba: greed
Loka: world
Lokuttara: transcendent
Mahakaruna: great compassion
Marana:
death
Marananussati:
contemplation on the nature of death
Mara: personification of evil and temptation
*Magga-phala-nana: Path and fruition knowledge
Mudita: sympathic joy
Micchaditthi: false views
Metta, friendliness or loving-kindness
Moha: delusion
Namarupa: body/mind
Nana: self-conceit
Nimitta: sign
*Nibbida: disenchantment
Nibbana: "unbinding" of the mind from passion, aversion, and delusion
Nivaranas: hindrances
Nana: knowledge

Pali: canon of texts of Theravada Buddhism.
Panna: discernment
Pancasila: five precepts
Puthujjanas: worldlings
Paramitas: perfections
Paticca samuppada: dependent co-arising
Raga: passionate feeling of attachment
Sakkayaditthi: false view of Self.
Sati: mindfulness
Sanna: perception
Samsara: floating and drifting in the whirlpool of endless existences

Samanera: novice monk
Samatha: tranquility
Samadhi: concentration
Sotapatti: stream-entry
Samudaya: origination
Sankappa: resolve
Saddha:conviction
Sankhara: fabrication
Samana: contemplative
Sunnata: emptiness
Satipatthana: frame of reference
Sampajanna: alertness
Sila: morality
Sasana: dispensation
Tanha: cravings
Tri Lakkhana: three characteristics of existence
Upadana: clinging
Upekkha: equanimity
Vassa: rains retreat
Visuddhimagga: The Path of Purification
Viriya: persistence
Viraga: dispassion
Vimutti
: release
Vicikiccha: doubts
Vitakka: directed thought
Vicara: evaluation
Vipassana: insight
Vinaya: monastic discipline
Vihara:
abiding
Vayodhatu: air element
Yogi: meditator
Yeiktha: meditation centre

*Vipassana Nanas: the insight knowledges:

1. Namarupa Pariccheda: knowledge of the distinction between body/mind.
2. Paccaya Pariggaha: knowledge of conditionality, i.e. cause and effect.
3. Sammasana: knowledge by comprehension, which sees the 3 characteristics (Tri Lakkhana).
4. Udayabbaya: knowledge of arising and passing away (anicca).
5. Bhanga: knowledge of dissolution, endings, deasings.
6. Bhaya: knowledge of the fearful nature of body/mind.
7. Adinava: knowledge of misery ( seeing mind/body as peril, danger).
8. Nibbida: knowledge of disenchantment. (dispassion arises).
9. Muncitkayata: knowledge of the desire for deliverance.
10. Patisankha: knowledge which investigates the Path to Deliverance.
11. Sankharupeckkha: knowledge with equanimity towards formations of body/mind.
12. Anuloma: knowledge of adaption. knowledge which conforms with Ariya Sacca.
13. Gotrabhu: maturity knowledge (change of lineage) knowledge which cuts off worldly states.
14. Magga: Path knowledge - cessation - Supramundane knowledge.
15. Pala: fruition knowledge.
16. Paccavekkhana: retrospective knowledge - knowledge which retrospects the remaining kileas.

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