Pali word association game

[Alexei]

Virāga (dispassionateness; lit. decolouration)

[David N. Snyder]

visaṃyoga (detachment)

[Alexei]

vippayoga (separation)

[David N. Snyder]

viyojeti (dissociate)

[Alexei]

pabbajjā (leaving the world, adopting the ascetic life)

Yaṃnūnāhaṃ kesamassuṃ ohāretvā kāsāyāni vatthāni acchādetvā agārasmā anagāriyaṃ pabbajeyya’nti.
'What if I, having shaved off my hair and beard and putting on the ochre robe, were to go forth from the household life into homelessness?'

[David N. Snyder]

tapacaraṇa (asceticism)

[Alexei]

vana (forest; craving)

Yo nibbanatho vanādhimutto, vanamutto vanameva dhāvati;
Taṃ puggalametha passatha, mutto bandhanameva dhāvati.

Having left the forest of desire (i.e., the life of a householder), he takes to the forest of the practice (i.e., the life of a bhikkhu); but when he is free from the forest of desire he rushes back to that very forest.
Come, look at that man who having become free rushes back into that very bondage.
(Dhp 344)

[David N. Snyder]

kubbanaka (jungle)

[Alexei]

hatthin (elephant; lit. endowed with a hand, i.e. having a trunk)

[David N. Snyder]

hatthigopaka (elephant keeper)

[nissaranamagga]

hatthipalako - mahout/elephant keeper

[David N. Snyder]

hatthināga (a noble elephant)

[David N. Snyder]

Hey! Wait a minute, I see people writing Pali in the [English] word association game. This is a reminder that we have a Pali word association game here too!

Ariya-puggala: Noble ones

[retrofuturist]

puggalavada (an early 'personalist' school of Buddhism)

[David N. Snyder]

puggalavada (an early 'personalist' school of Buddhism)

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudgalavada

The Pudgalavāda or "Personalist" school of Buddhism broke off from the orthodox Sthaviravāda (elders) school around 280 BCE. The Sthaviravādins interpreted the doctrine of anatta to mean that, since there is no true "self", all that we think of as a self (i.e., the subject of sentences, the being that transmigrates) is merely the aggregated skandhas. The Pudgalavādins asserted that, while there is no ātman, there is a pudgala or "person", which is neither the same as nor different from the skandhas. The "person" was their method of accounting for karma, rebirth, and nirvana. Other schools held that the "person" exists only as a label, a nominal reality.

The Pudgalavadins were strongly criticized by the Theravadins (a record of a Theravadin attack on the pudgala is found in the Kathavatthu), Sarvastivadins, and Madhyamakas. Peter Harvey agrees with criticisms levelled against the Pudgalavadins by Moggaliputta-Tissa and Vasubandhu, and finds that there is no support in the suttas for their "person"-concept.[1]

They were labeled heretical, and the sect eventually died out.

The Pudgalavādin view sounds similar to the views of some today and perhaps a few teachers too (but not very many).

[David N. Snyder]

Sthaviravāda : "Teaching Of The Elders" approx. 350 BCE or earlier

A precursor to Vibhajjavada / Theravada, Dharmaguptaka, etc.

[David2]

Hi all,

this thread is for practising Pali, in the same way the (English) word association game in the other thread works.
see
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1192

It is simple ... 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 ....

So the idea is to post Pali words. Please mention an English translation in brackets, so it will be easy to learn new words.

So let's start

pabatta (mountain)

[cooran]

giri (hill)

[David2]

Wow, I should have used the search function, I didn't know I wasn't the first with the idea.

tiṇa (grass)

[cooran]

gāvī (cow)