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Forest Path - Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

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glossary 237<br />

sabai (Thai):<br />

saddhà:<br />

sàlà:<br />

samàdhi:<br />

content, at ease, well, comfortable.<br />

faith in the <strong>Buddhist</strong> teachings, confidence.<br />

a hall.<br />

mental concentration or focus; peaceful, unified, and<br />

blissful sustained awareness.<br />

samàdhi nimitta:a sign which appears in the mind during samatha<br />

meditation.<br />

samatha:<br />

sambhavesi:<br />

sampaja¤¤a:<br />

samaõa:<br />

meditation; meditation emphasising the calming<br />

and stilling of the mind that culminates in jhàna.<br />

a being-to-be-born.<br />

clear comprehension, intelligent awareness,<br />

alertness.<br />

peaceful renunciant.<br />

samaõa dassana: the sight of samaõas.<br />

sàmaõera:<br />

saÿsàra:<br />

novice, the stage of ordination before bhikkhu.<br />

the wheel of endless aimless wandering through<br />

birth and death.<br />

Saÿyutta Nikàya: Kindred Sayings of the Buddha, part of the<br />

Theravàda Pàli scriptures.<br />

Saïgha:<br />

Sàsana:<br />

sati:<br />

sàvaka:<br />

sãla:<br />

the community of those who practise the Buddha’s<br />

Way. More specifically, those who have formally<br />

committed themselves to the lifestyle of a mendicant<br />

monk or nun.<br />

religion, the Buddha’s Dispensation, ‘Buddhism’.<br />

mindfulness, recollection.<br />

see Ariya sàvaka<br />

virtuous conduct of body and speech.

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