Selected Translation Terms
from Dr. Rupert Gethin's
Sayings of the Buddha, Oxford University Press, 2008
| Abhiññā | direct knowledge |
| Appamāda | attentiveness |
| Āsava | taints |
| Attan | self |
| Bala | powers |
| Bhikkhu | monk |
| Bodhi | awakening |
| Citta | mind |
| Dhamma | Truth, practice, qualities, teaching |
| Diṭṭhi | view |
| Domanassa | unhappyness |
| Dukkha | suffering |
| Indriya | faculties, senses |
| Jhāna | absorption |
| Kamma | action |
| Khandha | aggregates |
| Kāma | sense desire |
| Manasikāra | attention |
| Metta | friendliness |
| Nibbidā | disenchantment |
| Nirodha | cessation |
| Nīvaraṇa | hindrances |
| Padhāna | application |
| Passaddhi | tranquillity |
| Paññā | wisdom |
| Paṭicca samuppāda | dependent arising |
| Rūpa | form |
| Sacca | truth |
| Samatha | calm |
| Sampajaññā | awareness |
| Samādhi | concentration |
| Saṅkhāra | forces, volitional conditions |
| Sati | mindfulness |
| Saññā | conceiving |
| Saɱyojana | fetters |
| Sila | moral behavior |
| Taṇhā | craving |
| Upekkhā | equanimity |
| Vedana | feelings |
| Vicara | examining |
| Vipassana | insight |
| Viriya | energy |
| Virāga | dispassion |
| Vitakka | thinking |
| Viññaṇā | consciousness |
| First Jhāna | Completely secluded from sense desirs and unwholesome qualities, he lives having attained the joy and happiness of the first absorption, which is accompanied by thinking and examining, and born of seclusion. |
| Second Jhāna | by stilling thinking and examining, a monk lives having attained the joy and happiness of the second absorption, a state of inner clarity and mental unification that is without thinking and examining, and is born of concentration. |
| Third Jhāna | by having no desire for joy a monk lives equanimously, mindful and fully aware; he experiences the bodily happiness of which the noble ones speak saying "equanimous and mindful, one lives happily", and so lives having attained the third absorption |
| Fourth Jhāna | by letting go of happiness and unhappiness, as a result of the earlier dispappearance of pleasure and pain, a monk lives having attained the pure equanimity and mindfulness of the fourth absorption, which is free of happiness and unhappiness. |