BUDDHIST DICTIONARY - M -

• macchariya: '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.