..续本文上一页e in terms of precepts and meditation.

　　(In Pali, Uposatha.)

　　Panññã:(pan-nyah) discriminative wisdom.

　　Pindapãda:(bin-da-bah-da) (Thai: pindabaht) alms food; or the alms round on which the food is received.

　　Samana: one who has entered the Holy Life; a religious; originally, a religious recluse or wanderer.

　　Samanera:novice monk(s) Whereas a bhikkhu is a fully ordained monk who follows 227 precepts, a samanera is a 10 precept novice (who nevertheless wears the same ochre

　　coloured robes as the bhikkhus). In Thailand, the samanera stage is often reserved for those too young for full ordination.

　　Samsãra:(sang-sah-ra)the unenlightened, unsatisfactory experience of life; the world as conditioned by ignorance.

　　Sankhãra: conditions, i.e. the sum of the properties making up existence.

　　Sangha: the community of those who practise the Buddha”s Way. More specifically, those who have formally committed themselves to the lifestyle of a mendicant monk or nun.

　　Sila: virtuous conduct of body and speech. Sila is also known as ”Precepts”.

　　Siladhãrã: Ten Precept nun(s), an order of nuns at Amaravati and Cittaviveka.

　　Simã:a bounded area, within which official Sangha acts may take place. The main use of a sima is for upasampada, the ceremony of acceptance into the Bhikkhu

　　Sangha (”ordination”).

　　Sotãpanna: the first of the four stages of the realisation of liberation.

　　Tanhã: desire, craving.

　　The Buddha or Samma-Sambodhi: ”Perfect Enlightenment”, Universal Buddha hood, is the state attained by a Universal Buddha (samma-sambuddha), i.e one by whom the liberating Law (dhamma) wich has become lost to the world, is again discovered, realized and clearly proclaimed to the world.

　　The Four Noble Truths : The Noble Truth of Suffering. The Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering. The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering. The Noble Truth of The Way Leading to Cessation of Sufferring.

　　The Triple Gem: the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha.

　　Tipitaka Literally ”three baskets” - the colections of the Buddhist scriptures, classified according to Sutta (Discourses), Vinaya (Discipline or Training) and Abhidhamma (Meta-physics

　　Upajjhãya: a spiritual teacher; preceptor i.e. a bhikkhu of more than ten Rains who has the authority to confer full monastic ordination.

　　Upasampadã: acceptance into the order of bhikkhus (”ordination”). This must take place within a prescribed boundary, called a sima.

　　Vassã: Buddhist Lent, Rains the monsoon-season retreat period. A bhikkhus seniority is determined by the number of ”Rains” he has spent in the Order.

　　Vinaya: the monastic code of discipline.

　　Vibhava-tanhã: desire to get rid of something; annihilationism.

　　Vihãra: a residence; often used as the name for a small monastery.

　　Vinaya: the monastic discipline, or the scriptural collection of its rules and commentaries.

　　Vipãka: the ”effect” or result of kamma (the ”cause” or action).

　　Wat:(Thai) monastery.

　　Wat Pah:(Thai) monastery of the Forest Tradition (often a place of dhutanga observance).

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