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a Contemplative's Pali to English Dictionary

(a work in progress)

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(updated 11-02-05 with 0 Pali terms & 6 English terms defined)

Quality: va.n.na. m.

Quarter: disá. f.

Queen: mahesí. f.

Question: pañha. m.

questions and answers: pañhá-byákarana (q.v.).

Quickly: khippa.m. ind. 

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(updated 11-02-05 with 26 Pali terms & 65 English terms defined)

radiant gods: ábhassara; cf. deva.

rága: 'lust', 'greed', is a synonym of lobha (s. múla), tanhá (q.v.) and abhijjhá (s. kammapatha). For káma-, rúpa-, arúpa-rága, s. samyojana.

rága-carita: the 'greedy-natured'; s. carita.

Raiment: vattha. n.

Rain: vassa. m., n.

Rája: m. king.

Raja: n. dust.

Rajatamaya: made of silver.

Rájiní: f. queen.

Rakkhati: protects.

rapture: bliss, píti (q.v.); further s. bojjhanga.

Ratha: m. cart, chariot.

Rathakára: charioteer.

Rati: f. attachment.

Ratta: adj. Red.

Raññha: n. country, kingdom, realm.

Ratti: f. night.

reaction, sense-: s. patigha.

ready-wit: perspicuity s. patisambhidá.

reality: s. paramattha. - Vision and knowledge according to r.- s. vipassaná 15.

realization: For theory, practice and r., s. pariyatti.

Realm: ra.t.tha. n.

rebirth: s. patisandhi, paticcasamuppáda (3,10), karma, punabbhava.

Receives: labhati. ga.nháti.

receptive consciousness: sampaticchana-citta (s. viññánakicca).

Recollection: sati. f.

recollectons: s. anussati.

Red: ratta. adj.

red-kasina exercise: s. kasina.

reflective contemplation: patisankhánupassaná (s. vipassaná, 17).

reflection, power of: patisankhána-bala (q.v.).

reflex-perceptions: s. patigha (2a).

Refuge: sara.na. n. nátha. m.

refuge-formula, the 3-fold: ti-sarana (q.v.).

regenerating process: upapatti-bhava (s. bhava).

regenerative karma: janaka-kamma (s. karma).

registering consciousness: tadárammana-citta (s. viññána-kicca).

reincarnation: rebirth, s. patisandhi, paticcasamuppáda (3,10), karma, punabbhava.

Relative: :áti. m., bandhu. m.

Relatives (having): bandhumantu. m.

relative truth: cf. puggala, paramattha-sacca, desaná, anattá, satta.

Release: mutti. f.

Remaining: sesa. m.

remembrance, of former existences: s. abhiññá 4.

remorse: kukkucca (q.v.).

Removes: níharati, avaharati.

repetition: ásevana-paccaya, is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya, q.v.).

repression, overcoming by: vikkhambhana-pahána (s. pahána).

repugnance: patigha (q.v.).

resistance-perceptions: s. patigha (2a).

Resites: bha.nati.

restlessness: uddhacca (q.v.).

Retreats: pa.tikkamati.

retrospective knowledge: paccavekkhana-ñána (q.v.).

Reverend Sir: bhante.

Reverse: pa.tiloma.

reversible merit: patti-dána (q.v.).

Reward: pa.n.nákára. m.

right absorption or meditation: 8th N8P, samma-samadhi (jhana).

right action: 4th N8P, samma-kammanta

right concentration (mindfulness) 7th N8P, samma-sati

right effort: 6th N8P, samma-vayam

right livelihood: 5th N8P, samma-ajiva

right meditation or absorption: 8th N8P, samma-samadhi (jhana).

right mindfulness (concentration) 7th N8P, samma-sati

right speech: 3rd N8P, samma-vaca

right thought: 2nd N8P, samma-sankappa

right understanding (or r. view), 1st N8P: samma-ditthi, s. magga.

Rice: odana. m., n.

rise and fall (of phenomena): the knowledge consisting in the contemplation of r. and f., s. visuddhi VI, 1.

River: ga~ngá. f., nadí. f.

Road: path, way, magga. m.

Rock: pabbata. m., n.

Roga: m. disease.

round of rebirth: s. vatta (2), samsára. - The 3-fold r. of r. (s. vatta, 1).

Rukkha: m. tree.

rukkha mulik'anga: s. dhutanga.

rules and ritual, clinging to mere: (s. samyojana, upádána).

ruminating-natured: vitakka-carita (s. carita).

Runs: dhávati

Rundhati: (rudhi) obstructs. 

rúpa: (1) soma, anatomical, physiology, body, material nature, corporeality (s. khandha 1); (2) visual object (s. áyatana); (3) fine-material (s. avacara, jhána).

rúpa-jjhána: Material absorption s. jhána.

rúpa-kalápa: 'material group', 'corporeal group', material unit, designates a combination of several physical phenomena constituting a temporary unity. Thus, for instance, the so-called 'dead matter' forms the most primitive group, consisting only of 8 physical phenomena, called the 'pure eightfold unit' or 'octad' (suddhatthakakalápa), to wit: the 4 elements (the solid, fluid, heat, motion); color, smell, taste, nutriment (pathaví, ápo, tejo, váyo; vanna, gandha, rasa, ojá). In Vis.M., and elsewhere, it is also called ojatthamaka-kalápa, 'the octad with nutriment as the 8th factor'.

The simplest form of living matter is the '9-fold vitality unit' or 'life-ennead' (jívita-navaka-kalápa), formed by adding 'vitality' to the octad. Seven decades, or units of ten (dasaka-kalápa), are formed by adding to the 9-fold unit one of the following corporeal phenomena: heart (physical seat of mind), sex, eye, ear, nose, tongue or body. - See Vis.M. XVIII, 4; Compendium of Buddhist Philosophy (PTS), p. 164, 250; Atthasálini Tr., II, 413f.

rúpa-káya: 'physical body', 'body-group', as distinguished from náma-káya, 'mind-group' (q.v.). See náma-rúpa.

rúpa-kkhandha: 'soma', 'corporeality group'; s. khandha (1).

rúpa loka: material world'; s. loka.

rúpárammana: 'visual object', designates the external visual physical phenomenon ('light wave') that forms the cognitive base. Cf. áyatana (2).

rúpa-rúpa: physical body, soma = nipphanna-rúpa (q.v.).

rúpávacara: s. avacara.

rúpáyatana: s. áyatana (2).


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