Forest Path - Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

234 forest path
àsana:
avijjà:
àyatana:
bhikkhu:
borikan (Thai):
Brahmacariya:
raised platform on which monks sit.
ignorance.
sense bases of the eye and sight, ear and hearing,
nose and smelling, tongue and tasting, the body and
physical sensation, the mind and cognition.
Buddhist monk.
monk’s requisites.
celibacy, the celibate path, ‘the Holy Life’.
Brahma vihàras: sublime abidings of loving-kindness (mettà),
compassion (karunà), empathetic joy (mudità) and
equanimity (upekkhà).
citta:
desanà:
deva:
dhamma:
mind/heart (Thai); jit; see also jy.
Dhamma talk
celestial being.
in this use meaning the mental objects that arise and
pass through the mind.
Dhamma; Dhamma-Vinaya: The teaching and monastic
discipline laid down by the Buddha. Or, the truth
of the way things are and the code of virtue and
morality in accord with that truth.
dhutaïga:
dtieng (Thai):
dukkha:
farang (Thai):
See thudong.
an open-air bamboo platform which functions as a
meditation and sleeping platform.
suffering, unsatisfactoriness, instability.
European, foreigner.
Four Noble Truths: the fundamental Buddhist teaching of
suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of
suffering and the path leading to the cessation of
suffering.