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Pali word association game

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:39 am
by DNS
How about a Pali language word association game?

It could be a good way to help learn the language; I know I need all the help I can get.

It starts with one word, and someone posts a word that it is associated with, and then the next person posts a word associated with the second word and so on and on .... but it must be in Pali! And to help us learn the language, put the English translation in parenthesis after the Pali word.

There are some Pali resources and online dictionaries in the 'Announcements' section in this Pali sub-forum.

I'll start with:

Bhāvanā (mental development, also producing)

Re: Pali word association game

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:51 am
by Ben
Great idea, David!

Bhavatta the fact of being, state, condition

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:09 am
by DNS
Citta ('mind', 'consciousness', 'state of consciousness')

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:16 am
by Ben
cetana: state of ceto in action, thinking as active thought, intention, purpose, will. Defined as action

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:23 am
by retrofuturist
cetasika: 'mental things, mental factors', are those mental concomitants which are bound up with the simultaneously arising consciousness (citta = viññāṇa) and conditioned by its presence . Whereas in the Suttas all phenomena of existence are summed up under the aspect of 5 groups: corporeality, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness (s. khandha), the Abhidhamma as a rule treats them under the more philosophical 3 aspects: consciousness, mental factors and corporeality (citta, cetasika, rūpa). Thus, of these 3 aspects, the mental factors (cetasika) comprise feeling, perception and the 50 mental formations, altogether 52 mental concomitants. Of these, 25 are lofty qualities (either kammically wholesome or neutral), 14 kammically unwholesome, while 13 are as such kammically neutral, their kammical quality depending on whether they are associated with wholesome, unwholesome or neutral consciousness

Re: Pali word association game

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:06 pm
by Prasadachitta
viññana [vi~n~naa.na]:
Consciousness; cognizance; the act of taking note of sense data and ideas as they occur. There is also a type of consciousness that lies outside of the khandhas — called consciousness without feature (viññanam anidassanam) — which is not related to the six senses at all.

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:53 pm
by DNS
Sankhāra (mental formation, mental dispositions, construction, 'that which has been put together')

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:00 pm
by Ben
asankhata not put together, not proceeding from a cause 'the unconditioned'

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:02 pm
by DNS
nirodha (cessation)

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:53 pm
by Ben
Samudaya: rise, origin

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:10 pm
by retrofuturist
samanera - novice, in training to become a bhikkhu (monk)

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:14 pm
by DNS
samaneri - novice, in training to become a bhikkhuni (nun)

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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:18 pm
by retrofuturist
bhikkhuni (nun)

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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 12:40 am
by Ben
Utunī: a menstruating woman

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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:19 am
by DNS
upāsikā (lay woman)