festivity; good omen; auspice; auspicious ceremony; (the thirty-eight) blessings. Adj. auspicious.

a pavilion; temporary shed; square spired pavilion.

intoxication; pride; sexual excess.

a charm; spell; incantation; sacred or magical formula or invocation; verbal formulas used as incantations in the magic of sound. ดู สวดมนต์.

mind; thinking function; thinking faculty.

attention; pondering; attentiveness; advertence; mental application; reflection.

a human being.

humanity; virtue of man; the Five Precepts.

the human world; the human realm; the world of men.

mental action; action done by mind.

the mind-door; mind-avenue.

evil mental action; evil of mind or thoughts; misconduct by mind.

the mind-element; element of apprehension; the ideational faculty.

the magic power of the mind; mind-made magical power.

mind-consciousness; the mind cognition.

mind-consciousness element.

good mental action; good conduct in thought.

selfish attachment; the notion of ‘mine’.

death.

death (used when speaking of a monk or novice).

mindfulness of death; meditation on death.

the Path; the way; the Noble Path; the Noble Eightfold Path; the Path leading to the Cessation of Suffering.

lay leader of a congregation (or, of a Wat lay community).

dirt; impurity; stain; refuse; dust.

the title of a เปรียญ.

Mahathera Council; Council of Elders; the Sangha Supreme Council.

the Mahanikaya Sect; “Great Sect”; Greater Sub-Order (of the Thai Monkhood); greater denomination. เทียบ ธรรมยุต.

Great Man.

(the thirty-two) marks of the Great Man.

the Great Renunciation; the going forth of the Bodhisatta into the homeless life.

(the four) primary elements; great essentials; material qualities of matter.

“the Great Vehicle”; the school of the Great Vehicle (of salvation); the Northern School of Buddhism.

depreciation of another’s worth; detraction.

abstinence from meat; vetgetarianism.

death.

the king of death; the Death.

meanness; avariciousness; stringiness; selfishness.

an intoxicant.

“Collection of Middle-length Discourses”; “Further Dialogues of the Buddha”; name of the second of the five main divisions of the Sutta Pitaka.

the middle watch (from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.).

the Middle Path; the Middle Way; the via media; the golden mean. ดู มรรค.

moderation; knowledge of how to be temperate.

gentleness; softness.

the middle country including the Ganges basin.

Worship on the Full-Moon Day of the third Lunar month in commemoration of the Great Assembly of Disciples.

the support of mother and father; ministering to parents; looking after parents.

1. matrix; schedule; list; heading. 2. (T.) funeral chanting (of Abhidhamma matrices or schedules).

a woman; woman folk; women (collectively).

matricide.

conceit; pride; inordinate feeling; spiritual pride.

penance.

illusion; deceit; trick; the display of an illusion.

the Evil One; Death; the Tempter.

wrong view; false view.

a false friend; one pretending to be a friend.

torpor; drowsiness; languor.

word of mouth; oral.

sympathetic joy; altruistic joy.

congratulations.

false speech; lying.

root-regulation; main rule; principle or primary rule.

loving-kindness; friendliness; goodwill.

sexual intercourse; coupling; coitus.

salvation; deliverance; freedom.

salvation; release; deliverance; liberation; the state of disentanglement or separation in release; freedom.

delusion; ignorance; dullness.

the unintelligent; the ignorant; one whose habit is infatuation; a man of foolish habits; the stupid- or dull-natured; one of deluded temperament.

wrong way of behavior consisting in delusion; prejudice caused by delusion or stupidity.