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　　Khandha: aggregate; category. Usually the Five Aggregates: ruupa; vedanaa; sanyaa; sa.nkhaara; vinyaa.na.

　　Khun (Thai): The equivalent of Mr., Mrs., or Ms.

　　Kilesa: defilements; impurities; impairments. These include: greed, hatred, delusion, conceit, wrong view, doubt or uncertainty, sloth, restlessness, shamelessness, lack of moral concern.

　　Kusala: wholesome; meritorious; moral; skillful. It is part of a piece ritually chanted at funerals and therefore is given another Forest Dhamma meaning: clever, skilled. See akusala.

　　Magga: the Path; the Way. See Noble Truths.

　　Maagha-puuja: Worship on the Full-Moon Day of the third lunar month in commemoration of the Great Assembly of Disciples.

　　Ma.ngala (Sutta): auspicious; (the thirty-eight) blessings.

　　Maara: the Evil One; Death; the Tempter; Defilements personified.

　　Mettaa: loving-kindness, friendliness, goodwill.

　　Moha: delusion; ignorance; dullness.

　　Naama: mind; name; mental factors; mentality. See ruupa.

　　Nyaa.na: knowledge; wisdom; insight.

　　Nyaa.nadassana: knowing and seeing, perfect knowledge; vision through wisdom.

　　Nekkhamma: renunciation; letting go; giving up the world; self- denial.

　　Nibbaana: the extinction of the fires of greed, of hatred and of ignorance; the extinction of all defilements and suffering; the Unconditioned.

　　Nirodha: cessation. See Noble Truths.

　　Niivara.na: the (five) hindrances; obstacles.

　　Noble Truths: Dukkha: suffering; misery; woe; discontent; anguish; anxiety; pain. Samudaya: the Cause, Origin or Source of Suffering; Nirodha: the Cessation or Extinction of Suffering. Magga: the Path; the Way; the Noble Eightfold Path.

　　Opanayiko: worthy of inducing in and by one”s own mind; worthy of realizing; to be tried by practice; leading onward. An attribute of Dhamma.

　　Paali: the language of the texts of the Theravada Canon.

　　Panyaa (Pali/Thai): wisdom. Often coupled with mindfulness. See sati.

　　Paaramii: (the ten) Perfections; stages of spiritual perfection on the path to Awakening.

　　Parikamma: (Pali: preliminary action, preparation.) Thai: preparatory meditation, such as the (silent) repetition of "Buddho".

　　Parinibbaana: the Final Passing Away of the Lord Buddha; final release.

　　Pariyatti: the Scriptures; study of them; the Teachings to be studied.

　　Patipatti: putting into practice.

　　Pativedha: penetration; realization; insight.

　　Pa.tisandhi-vinyaa.na: relinking; rebirth; reunion; conception.

　　Phala: fruit; result; consequence; effect. See magga.

　　Pi.n.dapaata: food received in the alms-bowl (of a Bhikkhu); alms- gathering; to go on an almsround.

　　Puujaa: worship (external and mental); honor; veneration; devotional offering.

　　Puthujjana: a worldling; worldly person; ordinary person. As opposed to ariya.

　　Ruupa: matter; form; material; body; shape; corporeality. See naama.

　　Sabhaava dhamma: principle of nature; natural condition; natural phenomenon.

　　Sacca (-Dhamma): truth, truthfulness; Truth.

　　Saddhaa: faith; confidence.

　　Sakadaagaamii: a once-returner. See ariya.

　　Sakkaaya-di.t.thi: (the delusion of) self-view; belief in a personal self.

　　Samaadhi: concentration; one-pointedness of mind; the condition of mind when focused, centered and still.

　　Sama.na: recluse; holy one; a Buddhist monk.

　　Sammati; Sammuti (Thai/Pali): conventional; mundane; supposed; assumed; generally accepted.

　　Samudaya: Cause. See Noble Truth.

　　Sa.myojana: (the ten) Fetters (that bind to the round of rebirth).

　　Sa.ngha (Saavaka Sa.ngha): (the noble) community, one of the Three Jewels; the Order.

　　Sa.nkappo: thought.

　　Sankhaara: determinations; compounded things; mental formations (see Khandha). In Forest Dhamma this is the processing, concocting and fabricating of thoughts.

　　Sanyaa: perception; idea; ideation; (see Khandha). In Forest Dhamma this is the aspect of remembering (past perceptions).

　　Sara.na: refuge; help; protection; guide; remembrance.

　　Saranagamana: taking refuge (in the Three Jewels); going for refuge.

　　Saasada (Thai), Satthu (Pali): the Master; the Great Teacher (the Lord Buddha).

　　Saasana: teaching; message; doctrine; a religion.

　　Sati: mindfulness; awareness; attentiveness. In Forest Dhamma it is often coupled with wisdom (panyaa). (In Thai common usage sati-panya means: intelligence; intellect.)

　　Saavaka: a (noble) disciple; hearer; follower.

　　Siila: virtue; morality; moral conduct; a precept; training rule. See Appendix.

　　Sotaapanna: a stream-enterer; one who has attained the first stage of Ariya.

　　Sugato: Well-gone; Well-farer; sublime. An epithet of Buddha.

　　Sukha: happiness; ease; joy; comfort; pleasure; physical or bodily happiness or ease. As opposed to dukkha.

　　Sutta: a discourse from the Pali Canon.

　　Svaakkhaata: well-taught; well proclaimed. An attribute of Dhamma.

　　Ta.nhaa: craving; desire; thirst.

　　Tapa: exertion; ascetic practice; (burning out).

　　Tathaagata: the Accomplished One; the Thus-come; the Thus-gone. An epithet of the Lord Buddha. Sometimes used as a pronoun when the Lord Buddha is quoted as saying something himself.

　　Ti-lakkha.na: the Three Characteristics, Marks or Signs; also called the Common Characteristics, viz., impermanence, suffering and not-self.

　　Upaadaana: attachment; clinging; grasping; holding.

　　Uposatha: Observance Day (for the monks).

　　Va.t.ta (-cakka): the round of rebirth, of existences; (the cycle or wheel of rebirth).

　　Vedanaa: feeling. See Khandha.

　　Vimutti (-nyaanadassana): deliverance; release; liberation; freedom; (knowledge of that deliverance).

　　Vinyaa.na: consciousness. See Khandha.

　　Viriya: effort; energy; vigour; endeavor; exertion.

　　Visuddhi: purity; purification.

　　Wat (Thai): a monastery.

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