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3 unusual facts about Pāli


Dhatu

Six triads of object-sense-consciousness, 18 dhātus or realms, function through five skandhas (Pāli khandhas), 'aggregates, aspects'.

Pallika

Pali, Rajasthan, town in Rajasthan, India; formerly known as Pallika

Pañcasīla

Pañcasīla derived from Pali terms, "pañca" meaning five, and "sīla" meaning principles.


Angulimala

He notes that there are several other references in the early Pāli canon that seem to indicate the presence of devotees of Siva, Kali, and other divinities associated with sanguinary tantric practices, and that Angulimala's behaviour would not be inconsistent with certain violent practices that were observed in India by Thuggee-like transgressive cults into recent times.

Asirgarh Fort

The ancient inscriptions in the Pali Buddhist character have been discovered in various parts of Rajasthan of the race of Taxak or Tak, Taka, Dhaka relating to the tribe Mori and Parmara are their descendants.

Audrius Beinorius

Later he moved to India where during four years he studied Indology, Buddhology and Indian languages (Sanskrit, Pali, Bengali, Tibetan) at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in Calcutta.

Avadana

While including accounts from the Pali Vinaya Pitaka ("Basket of Discipline"), this literature also includes a large number of Sanskrit collections, of which the chief are the Mahāsaṅghika's Mahāvastu ("Great Book"), and the Sarvāstivāda's Avadanasataka (Century of Legends) and Divyavadana (The Heavenly Legend).

Ayya Tathaaloka

As of the 2006 Vassa, her 10th "rain" (a traditional Pali term for the annual three-month retreat during rainy season) after taking higher ordination, she is eligible to be called Ajahn, the Thai veneration for senior monastics who teach.

Bagri

Bagrinagar, a village in Raipur tehsil of Pali district, Rajasthan state, India

Bamar people

Its core vocabulary consists of Sino-Tibetan words, but many terms associated with Buddhism, arts, sciences, and government have derived from the Indo-European languages of Pali and English.

Bodhi Vamsa

The Bodhi-Vamsa, or Mahabodhi-Vamsa, is a prose poem in elaborate Sanskritized Pali, composed by Upatissa in the reign of Mahinda IV of Sri Lanka about AD 980.

Buddhist Cultural Centre

After installing a new printing press the centre started printing new books, both in Sinhala and English; well over 500 books on Buddha Dhamma, Buddhist Literature, history, culture, philosophy, languages such as Pali and Sanskrit by renowned scholars were printed there.

Burmese names

Scholars such as Thant Myint-U have argued that the rise of complex Burmese personal names resulted from the collapse of the Burmese monarchy, which ended the sophisticated system of Pali-Burmese styles, crown service and gentry titles, leaving the majority of Burmese with single syllable names.

Culavamsa

The foremost translation of this work was that of William Geiger from Pali into German, completed in 1930.

Damodar Sharma

Conducted hydrographic survey of the Jawai Dam in Pali district to estimate the availability of drinking water to the city of Jodhpur

Dhammapada

The Word of the Doctrine, tr K. R. Norman, 1997, Pali Text Society, Bristol; the PTS's preferred translation

Dhatu

Stupa, stūpa (Pāli thūpa) -- a "heap" or a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics.

Ficus racemosa

Both the tree and the flower are referred to as the udumbara (Sanskrit, Pali; Devanagari: उडुम्बर) in Buddhism.

First Buddhist council

Tradition holds that the Council was held in a hall erected by Ajatasattu outside the Sattaparnaguha (Pali: Sattapanniguha) or Saptaparni Cave in Rajgir, three months after the Buddha had attained "Parinibbhana" (i.e. died).

Greco-Buddhist monasticism

The role of Greek Buddhist monks in the development of the Buddhist faith under the patronage of emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE, and then during the reign of Indo-Greek king Menander (r. 165/155–130 BCE) is described in the Mahavamsa, an important non-canonical Theravada Buddhist historical text compiled in Sri Lanka in the 6th century, in the Pali language.

Hinglajgarh

The ancient inscriptions in the Pali Buddhist character have been discovered in various parts of Rajasthan of the race of Taxak or Tak, relating to the tribe Mori and Parmara are their descendants.

In Tam

As a child he studied Pali at Stung Treng Pagoda, before going on to study at the Lycee Sisowath.

Kalyani Inscriptions

Taw Sein Ko translated the inscriptions from the palm-leaf manuscripts into English and Pali written in Latin script.

Kanthaka

Kanthaka (in Pali and Sanskrit) (6th century BC, in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India) was a favourite white horse of length eighteen cubits that was a royal servant of Prince Siddhartha, who later became Gautama Buddha.

Kasahara Kenju

With Takakusu Junjiro and Nanjo Bunyu, Kasahara went to Great Britain in 1876 Oxford under the academic guidance of Max Müller in order to study Sanskrit and Pali texts for a more authentic understanding of Buddhist teachings from their original languages as they had previously only used Chinese texts that were possibly dubious translations.

Kassapa Buddha

In Buddhist tradition, Kassapa (Pāli) is the name of a Buddha, the third of the five Buddhas of the present kalpa (the Bhaddakappa or 'Fortunate Aeon'), and the sixth of the six Buddhas prior to the historical Buddha mentioned in the earlier parts of the Pali Canon (D.ii.7).

Kushok Bakula Rinpoche

The Manorathapurani and the Pali version of Milindapanha maintain him as being born at Kaushambi in a minister's family and then having been swallowed by a fish in the Yamuna river that was later caught by an angler.

Luni River

The Luni River basin is 37,363 km², which includes all or part of Ajmer, Barmer, Jalor, Jodhpur, Nagaur, Pali, and Sirohi districts of Rajasthan;≥Mithavirana, Jordiyali, Mavsari Vav, Radhanpur region of Banaskantha North Gujarat.

Magadhi Prakrit

Ardhamagadhi differs from later Magadhi Prakrit on similar points as Pāli.

Theravada Buddhist tradition has long held that the Pāli language was synonymous with the ancient Magadha language; and indeed, there are many remarkable analogies between Pāli and an old form of Magadhi Prakrit known as Ardhamagadhi ("Half Magadhi"), which is preserved in ancient Jain texts.

Meera Kosambi

She is the youngest daughter of a prominent Marxist historian and mathematician, D.D. Kosambi, and granddaughter of Acharya Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, prominent Buddhist Schloar and a Pāli language expert.

Middle Indo-Aryan languages

The Pali Text Society was founded in 1881 by T.W Rhys Davids to preserve, edit, and publish texts in Pāli, as well as English translations.

Pal-Kshatriya

They also call themselves Nikhar / Naikar which might be a corrupted form of Nayak, meaning commandant (नायक) as in case of Holkar Maratha of Indore, they also call themselves as Assal or Asali Dhangar.

Pali district

Maharana Pratap was born in Pali at Nanihal (house of mother's father) near Dhanmandi kachedi.

Ranakpur Express

It is named after the village of Ranakpur which is located in the Pali district of Rajasthan.

Rhys Davids

Thomas William Rhys Davids, British scholar, founder and president of the Pali Text Society, husband of next

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ajmer

Diocese of Ajmer-Jaipur comprised twenty four districts, namely Ajmer, Alwar, Baran, Barmer, Bikaner, Bundi, Churu, Dausa, Hanumangarh, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jalore, Jhalawar, Jhunjhunu, Jodhpur, Karauli, Kota, Nagaur, Pali, Sawai Madhopur, Sikar, Sirohi, Sri Ganganagar and Tonk in the state of Rajasthan.

Rousse State Opera

Over the years numerous famous singers have sung on the Ruse opera stage: Elena Nikolai, Todor Mazarov, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Raina Kabaivanska, Nicola Giuselev, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Ghena Dimitrova, Stefka Evstatieva, Orlin Anastassov, Valerie Popova, Gloria Lind, Alexandrina Milcheva, Vladimir Atlantov, Stefan Dimitrov, Ivan Konsulov, Ava Cooper, Peter Glossop, Zinaida Pali, Silvia Shash, Kaludi Kaludov, Mariana Zvetkova, Nicolae Herlia and many others.

Spiritual friendship

In Buddhism, "spiritual friendship" is a translation for the Pali term, kalyana mittata.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano and innovative contemporary architect Zoltan Pali, the Academy Museum will be located next to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) campus in the landmarked 1939 May Company building on Wilshire Boulevard.

The Secret History

(Francis reappears, in a sentence or two, in Tartt's later novel, The Goldfinch.) Two students become the central focus of the story: the linguistic genius Henry Winter, an intellectual with a passion for the Pali canon, Homer, and Plato, and the back-slapping Bunny Corcoran, a bigoted jokester more comfortable reading Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels.

Theragatha

Elders' Verses, volume I, tr K. R. Norman, 1969, Pali Text Society, Bristol; the PTS's preferred translation; also available in paperback as Poems of Early Buddhist Monks, without the translator's notes

Vipassī Buddha

In Buddhist tradition, Vipassī (Pāli) is the twenty-second of twenty-eight Buddhas described in Chapter 27 of the Buddhavamsa.

Wilhelm Geiger

He is especially known for his work on the Sri Lankan chronicles Mahāvaṃsa and Cūlavaṃsa of which he made critical editions of the Pali text and English translations with the help of assistant translators.

Yankari National Park

It is located within the Duguri, Pali and Gwana districts of Alkaleri LGA, Bauchi State.

Zoilos I

The Indian-standard coins of Zoilos I also bear the Pali title "Dhramikasa" ("Follower of the Dharma"), probably related to Buddhism, appearing for the first time on Indo-Greek coinage.


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