BUDDHIST
DICTIONARY - M -
'stinginess', avarice. "There are
5 kinds of stinginess, o monks; regarding the dwelling place, regarding
families, regarding gain, regarding recognition, regarding mental things'
(A.IX.49; Pug. 56).
mada
magga
maggāmagga-ñānadassana-visuddhi: 'purification by knowledge of what is
path and not-path', is one of the 7 stages of purification (visuddhi
V).
magga-paccaya: 'path as a condition', is one of the 24 conditions (paccaya).
magical powers: s. iddhi;
abhiññā (1).
mahā-bhūta: the 4 'primary elements', is
another name for the 4 elements (dhātu)
underlying all corporeality..
mahā-brahmāno: the 'great gods', are a class of heavenly beings in the
fine-material world; s. deva, II.
mahaggata
mahāpurisa-vitakka: the 8 'thoughts of a
great man', are described in A.VIII.30, and D.34.
mahā-vipassanā: the 18 'chief kinds of insight'; s.
vipassanā.
maintain: effort to maintain wholesome things; s.
padhāna.
majjhimā-patipadā
mala: 'stains', is a name for the 3 karmically
unwholesome roots (akusala-mūla); greed, hate and delusion (lobha,
dosa, moha).
māna
manasikāra
manāyatana: 'mind-base', is a collective term for all the different
states of consciousness; s. āyatana.
mangala
mano
mano-dhātu
mano-kamma: 'mental action'; s. karma,
kammapatha.
manomayā iddhi: s. iddhi.
manopadosika-deva
manopavicāra
mano-sañcetanā: 'mental volition'; s. āhāra.
manovinñāna-dhātu
Māra
marana
maranāsanna-kamma: s. karma.
maranānussati
marvel: s. pātihāriya.
mastery (regarding the absorptions): s.
vasī. - 8 stages of: abhibhāyatana.
material food: kabalinkārāhāra.
matter (corporeality): s. khandha,
rūpa-kalāpa.
matured one, the: gotrabhū.
maturity-knowledge: gotrabhū-ñāna; s.
visuddhi VII.
meaning: evident, and to be inferred: s.
neyyatthadhamma.
meat-eating
meditation: s. bhāvanā,
jhāna, samādhi.
mental action: mano-kamma; s. karma.
mental advertence: mano-dvārāvajjana; s.
āvajjana.
mental formation: sankhāra. s.
Tab. II.
mental function: citta-sankhāra; s.
sankhāra
(2).
mental image: s. nimitta,
kasina, samādhi.
mental obduracy: ceto-khila.
merit, the 4 streams of:
puñña-dhārā. - For transference of merit, s.
patti-dāna.
meritorious action: s. puñña,
puñña-kiriya-vatthu.
message, the 9-fold: of the Buddhasāsana, s.
sāsana.
messengers, the 3 divine: s. deva-dūta.
method, the right: ñāya, is a name for the 8-fold path (s.
magga)
mettā: 'loving-kindness', is one of the 4 sublime abodes
(brahma-vihāra).
micchā-ditthi, -sankappa, -vāca etc.: s.
micchā-magga.
micchā-magga
micchatta: 'wrongnesses' = prec.
middha: 'sloth': Combined with thīna, 'torpor', it forms one of
the 5 hindrances (nīvarana). Both may
be associated with greedy consciousness (s. Tab. III and I, 23, 25, 27, 29).
middle path:
majjhima-patipadā.
mind: mano; cf.
nāma.
mind and corporeality: nāma-rūpa.
mind-base: manāyatana; s. āyatana.
mind-consciousness-element:
mano-viññāna-dhātu.
mind-element: mano-dhātu.
mindfulness: sati; s.
satipatthāna. - Right m.: s.
sacca,
magga.
mind-object: dhamma; s. āyatana.
- Contemplation of the, s. satipatthāna
(4).
mind-training, 'higher': adhicitta-sikkhā, s.
sikkhā.
miracle: s. pātihāriya.
mirth (in the Arahat): s.
hasituppāda-citta.
misapprehension: s. parāmāsa.
misery, contemplation of: dukkhānupassanā; s.
ti-lakkhana.
moha: 'delusion', is one of the 3 unwholesome roots
(mūla). The best known synonym is
avijjā.
moha-carita the 'deluded-natured'; s.
carita.
momentaneity (of existence): s. marana.
monkhood, the fruits of;
sāmañña-phala.
monks' community: Sangha; further
s.
pabbajjā,
progress of the disciple.
morality: sīla. - Contemplation on,
s.
anussati
(4).
morality-training, higher: adhisīla-sikkhā; s.
sikkhā.
moral rules, the 5, 8 or 10: s.
sikkhāpada.
muccitu-kamyatā-ñāna: 'knowledge consisting in the desire for
deliverance'; s. visuddhi VI.6.
muditā: 'altruistic (or sympathetic) joy', is one of the 4 sublime
abodes (brahma-vihāra).
mudutā (rūpa, kāya, citta): 'elasticity' (of corporeality,
mental factors, consciousness); s. khandha
(I) and
Tab.II.
mūla
multiformity-perceptions: nānatta-saññā; s.
jhāna
(5).
mundane: lokiya.
mutability: Contemplation of: viparināmanupassanā:
see vipassanā.
