curd; sour milk.

self-command; self-control; taming; subjugation; training; mastery; adjustment.

1. door; avenue. 2. a sense-door; sense-avenue. 3. door of action.

the ten longest birth stories of Buddha, regarded as the most important.

the ten perfections; the ten principal virtues practiced by a Bodhisatta.

the ten blessing; ten boons.

1. the Ten Powers of the Buddha. 2. one who is endowed with ten supernormal powers, i.e. the Buddha.

the ten supreme intellectual powers of a Tathagata.

the tenfold code of the king; the tenfold virtue or duty of the king; the ten royal virtues; virtues of a ruler.

gold leaf.

v. to lay a robe (as a offering to a monk at a funeral or memorial ceremony); lay down a funeral robe.

a gift; donation; dedicatory gift; an intercessional expiatory offering; donation given a holy person with reference to unhappy beings in the Peta existence, intended to induce the alleviation of their suffering.

winding to the right; clockwise.

water of dedication; consecrated water.

the Southern School of Buddhism, i.e. the Theraveda.

offering made to a monk or monks on behalf of the dead.

punishment; penalty.

making firm; strengthening by repeating, as reordination.

the tooth relic (of the Buddha).

giving; gift; alms-giving; charity; generosity; benevolence; liberality; a gift; donation; alms, benefaction.

1. lord of alms; master in liberality. 2. one in charge of alms giving; chief donor.

(merit) gained through, or connected with, alms-giving; the way of making merit, consisting in alms giving or charity.

almsgiver; donor; benefactor; the lay supporter of Bhikkhus; lay giver; lay supporter.

a female donor.

mode of chanting.

merit-making; performing meritorious action. v. to make merit; do merit; do good; perform meritorious action.

house-warming ceremony.

house-blessing ceremony.

v. to perform morning or evening chanting.

the visible order of things; present condition; this world; the present life.

Immediately Effective Kamma; Karma ripening during the lifetime.

gain for this life; present benefit; temporal welfare; sources of happiness in the present life.

an open statement of one’s view; explanation of views.

1. a theory; view; belief; opinion; speculation; dogma. 2. misbelieve; erroneous opinion; false theory.

purity of understanding; purification of view.

equality in view; unity in view.

straightening of one’s own views.

clinging to erroneous opinions; attachment to views.

divine eye; heavenly eye; clairvoyance.

divine ear; heavenly ear; clairaudience.

divine; heavenly; celestial.

the Collection of Long Discourses; Dialogues of the Buddha; name of the first main division of the Sutta Pitaka.

monastic revenue estate.

monastery estate.

monastery compound.

an offence of wrongdoing.

1. suffering; misery; woe; pain; ill; sorrow; trouble; discomfort; unsatisfactoriness; problematic situation; stress; conflict. adj. unsatisfactory; miserable; painful; subject to suffering; ill; causing pain. 2. physical or bodily pain.

the state of being subject to suffering; painfulness; stress; conflict.

the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering; the Noble Truth of the Extinction of Suffering.

the Noble Truth of the Path that leads to the Cessation (or, the Extinction) or Suffering.

painful feeling.

the Noble Truth of the Path of the Cause (or, the Origin) of Suffering; the Noble Truth of the Condition of the Arising of Suffering.

the Noble Truth of Suffering.

the practice of austerities; self-mortification.

(the 3 or 4) States of Unhappiness; woeful courses of existence; evil states; woeful existences.

bad conduct; wrong action.

the second Jhana; the second absorption.

an offence of wrong speech.

of bad conduct; void of morality; immoral.

lit. a shining one; god; deity; divine being.

a celestial or heavenly being; deity.

recollection of heavenly beings; reflection on deifying virtues as found in oneself.

an offering to the deity.

lit. gods’ messenger; divine messenger; a symbolic name for those things which remind man of his future and rouse him to earnest striving.

divine virtue; the virtues that make divine, i.e. moral shame and fear.

an image of a deity; idol.

world of gods; heaven; celestial realm.

lit. pronouncing two words or two times; esp. those who pronounce the words, taking only two refuses, viz., the Buddha and the Dharma, Tapussa and Bhalika being the first ones.

a season for merit-making and local festivals.

preaching; discourse; sermon; instruction. v. to preach; expound the Doctrine; give a sermon.

a candle.

candle for the rains; Lenten candle.

a painful mental feeling; (mental) displeasure; sad-mindedness; grief.

fault; blemish; defect; corruption; depravity; disadvantage.

hatred; anger; ill-will; aversion.

the hateful; one of hating temperament.

wrong way of behaviour consisting in hatred; prejudice caused by hatred.

a gift fit to be given; gift; donation.