Abhidhamma Papers


Appendix II: Pali terms

adhimokkha - commitment
adosa - non-aversion
ahirika - lack of concern/fear of consequences (of unskilfulness)
akasa - space
akusala - unskilful
alobha - non-attachment
anatta - no-self
anicca - impermanence
anotappa - disregard of consequences (of unskilfulness)
anuloma - adaptation (of the vithi leading to jhana)
anusaya - latent tendency
apo - water
appana - absorption
arammana - object (of the sense or the mind)
ariya - sainthood
arupa - formless
asankharika - unprompted, spontaneous
avijja - wrong knowing

bhavanga - not translated
bhavana - practice of meditation (lit. 'bringing into being')
bhumi - plane, level

cetana - will to do, volition, drive
cetasika - mental factor, commitant or ingredient of consciousness
citta - consciousness
cittuppada - state of consciousness or mind, thought-moment
cuti - shifting out of existence

dana - giving
ditthi - views, false views
domanassa - unpleasant (mental) feeling
dosa - aversion, ill-will, dislike
dukkha - unsatisfactoriness
dvara - door

ekagatta - concentration, one-pointedness, unifying

gotrabhu - change of lineage, membership

hetu - root (lit. 'cause') hiri - a wish not to be involved with unskilfulness

indriya - faculty
issa - jealousy

javana - not translated (lit. 'running')
jhana - (state of) meditation (particular sense)
jhananga - jhana factor, intensifying factor

kamma - active or causative (aspect of consciousness)
kammannata - fitness
karuna - compassion
khanda - aggregate
kicca - function
kiriya - functional (consciousness)
kukkucca - anxiety, guilt
kusala - skilful

lakkhana - mark of existence
lahuta - lightness
lokuttara - supramundane
lobha - attachment

maccariya - miserliness
magga - path
mahabhuta - element. primary element
mana - conceit
manasikara - attention
manodvara - mind door
manodvaravajjana - turning to the mind door
middha - sluggishness
moha (cetasika) - cloudiness; (hetu) - deludedness
mudita - sympathetic joy
muduta - pliancy

nama - mind, mentality
nama-rupa - mentality-materiality
nibbana - not translated (lit. `blowing-out' - of the fires of attachment, aversion and wrong knowing)
nimitta - not translated (lit. 'portent')
nivarana - hindrance

ottapa - fear of the consequences (of unskilfulness)

pancadvara - sense door
pancadvaravajjana - turning to the sense door
panna - wisdom, understanding
pannati - concepts
pathavi - earth, solidity
paticca-samuppada - dependent origination
paramattha-dhamma - reality, basic reality
parikamma - preparatory (of the vithi leading to jhana)
passaddhi - tranquility
phala - fruit
phassa - contact
piti - energization, joy

rupa - matter

saddha - confidence, faith
sankharika - prompted
salayatana - sense bases
samatha - calm
sampaticchana - receiving
sankara - not translated (lit. `forming well' or `accumulating')
sanna - recognition, perception, marking the object
santirana - investigating
sati - mindfulness
sila - discipline
somanassa - pleasant (mental) feeling
sukha - harmonizing

tadalambana - retention
tanha - craving
tatramajjhattata - even balance
tejo - fire
thina - stiffness

uddhacca - agitation, restlessness, anxiety
ujukata - correctness
upacara - access (of the vithi leading to jhana)
upekkha - neutral feeling

vayo - air
vedana - feeling
vicara - examining the object, sustained application
vicikiccha - doubt, wavering
vinnana - regenarative consciousness
vipassana - insight
vipaka - resultant or passive (consciousness)
vitakka - applying or directing the mind to the object, initial interest
vithi - thought process
viriya - effort (lit 'strength' or 'heroism')
votthapana - determining