Search results for: vinaya

  1. Book search result icon Merit Glossary
     … the first level of Awakening. Sutta:  Discourse. Sanskrit form: Sutra. Tathagata:  Literally, “one who has become authentic (tatha-agata)” or “one who is truly gone (tatha-gata).” An epithet used in ancient India for a person who has attained the highest religious goal. In Buddhism, it usually denotes the Buddha, although occasionally it also denotes any of his arahant disciples. Vinaya:  The monastic discipline.
  2. Book search result icon Merit Sila: Virtue
     … He speaks in season, speaks what is factual, what is in accordance with the goal, the Dhamma, and the Vinaya. He speaks words worth treasuring, seasonable, reasonable, circumscribed, connected with the goal. This is how cleansing with regard to speech is fourfold. “And how is cleansing with regard to the mind threefold? There is the case where a certain person is not covetous. He … 
  3. Book search result icon Merit Dana: Giving
     … The Vinaya counts as one’s relatives all those related back through seven generations past one’s grandparents—in other words, all those descended from one’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents. 2. Apparently, “ornaments” for poultry would consist of brilliant plumage. Similarly, “ornaments” for elephants, horses, & cattle might consist of attractive markings. — AN 10:177 Then Ven. Sariputta, together with … 
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