..续本文上一页ioning thoughts, urges, etc. within the mind. As a blanket term for all five khandhas, it refers to all things, physical or psychological, fashioned by nature.

　　Stupa: Originally, a tumulus or burial mound enshrining relics of the Buddha or objects associated with his life. Over the centuries, however, this has developed into the tall, spired monuments familiar in temples in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Burma; and into the pagodas of China, Korea and Japan.

　　Suttanta (Pitaka): The second of the three collections forming the Pali Canon, composed of discourses and other literary pieces related to the Dhamma.

　　Tejas: See "dhatu."

　　Vinaya (Pitaka): The first of the three collections forming the Pali Canon, dealing with the disciplinary rules of the monastic order. The Buddha”s own name for the religion he founded was, "this Dhamma-Vinaya" — this doctrine and discipline.

　　Vipassanupakkilesa: Corruption of insight; intense experiences that can happen in the course of meditation and can lead one to believe that one has completed the path. The standard list includes ten: light, psychic knowledge, rapture, serenity, pleasure, extreme conviction, excessive effort, obsession, indifference, contentment.

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　　If this translation is in any way inaccurate or misleading, I ask forgiveness of the author and reader for having unwittingly stood in their way. As for whatever may be accurate — conducive to the aims intended by the author — I hope the reader will make the best use of it, translating it a few steps further, into the heart, so as to attain those aims.

　　— The translator

　　Sabbe satta sada hontu

　　avera sukha-jivino.

　　Katam puñña mayham

　　sabbe bhagi bhavantu te.

　　May all living beings always live happily,

　　free from animosity.

　　May all share in the blessings

　　springing from the good I have done.

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