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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
materiality..
- 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 advantageous things; s.
padhāna.
- majjhimā-patipadā
- mala:
'stains', is a name for the 3 karmically
disadvantageous 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 intention'; 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
(materiality): 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 construction:
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 materiality:
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 disadvantageous 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
materiality, 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.
 
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