Glossary

appamatta
Diligent

apramāda (Skt.); appamāda (P.)
Zeal

abala
not strong

abh āvita
undeveloped

arhat (Skt.); arahato (P.)
Foe Destroyer

avaira (Skt.); avera (P.)
Friendliness

asubha
Ugliness

kusīda (Skt.); kusīta (P.)
laziness, lazy

kṣudraka nikāya (Skt.); Khuddaka Nikāya (P.)
The Mixed Collection. The  Three Baskets Project  divides this collection into an  early and  later  collection. The works in these two collections are independent, and miscellaneous. Most of the text in these collections are in verse, and contain some of the most important poetry in Buddhism. The early collection is believed to consist in the earliest texts, whereas the later collection is believed to consist in the latest texts of the Hearer's Vehicle, the latest of which is the Question of King Menander, as found in the Burmese edition of the Three Baskets, which dates to the first century before the Common Era.

citta
heart

tṛṣṇā (Skt.); taṇhā (P.)
Thirst

tripiṭaka (Skt.; P.)
The Three Baskets. The name for the threefold collection of Buddhist texts in the Buddhist canon. The three collections, or baskets, are 1. The Basket of Threads (Sūtra Piṭaka Skt.; Sutta Piṭaka P.), 2. The Basket of the Further Law (Abhidharma Piṭaka Skt.; Abhidhamma Piṭaka P.), and 3. The Basket of Discipline (Vinaya Piṭaka Skt.;P.). The Three Baskets are traditionally dated to the First Council at Rājagṛha, the year of the Awakened One's death. However, within the texts there is evidence of evolution and change, and thus The Three Baskets Project has reflected that, for instance, in ordering texts in an approximately historical order. Each early school of Buddhism preserved its own version of the Three Baskets, but the only such collection that is entirely complete is that of the Theravāda (P.; Sthaviravāda Skt.) school. These were kept in oral tradition until around the first century of the Common Era, when they were committed to writing in various languages. Some schools regarded the canon as closed after a certain point, such as the Sthaviravāda, whose latest text appears to be the Questions of King Menander in the Burmese editition, while other schools regarded the canon as open to new additions based upon a more flexible definition of the "Word of the Awakened One," (buddhavacana). The East Asian Three Baskets incorporate many texts, while the Tibetan one divides them into Word of the Awakened One (bka'-'gyur Tib.) and Commentary (btsan-'gyur Tib.). The Three Baskets Project considers the Three Baskets to be open, accepting the Word of the Awakend One from all traditional sources.

duḥkha (Skt.);  dukkha (P.)
Unhappiness

dosa
Hatred

dharma (Skt.); dhamma (P.)
Law (the teaching of the Awakened One, but also in the sense of the natural law of the universe), or phenomena, things.

pamatta
Negligent

pamāda
Indolent

pāpa
Evil

puṇya (Skt.); puñña (P.)
Merit

buddha
The Awakend One.

buddhavacana
The Word of the Awakend One

bh
bhagavant Victorious

bhāvita
Developed

mattaññu
Moderate

manas
Mind

maitri (Skt.); metta (P.)
Love

mithyā (Skt.); micchā (P.)
False, wrong

methana (Skt.); medhaga (P.)

Quarrel

moha
Naivety

rāga
Passion

vaira (Skt.); vera (P.)
Enmity

vicara (Skt.); vicāra (P.)
subtle discernment

vijñāna (Skt.); viññāṇa (P.)
Consciousness

vitarka (Skt.); vitakka (P.) (Syn. saṅkappa)
concept; conceptual discernment

vinaya
Subduing

viharati
Sojourns

vīriya
Energy

śrāddha (Skt.); saddha (P.)
Confidence

śīlā (Skt.); sīla (P.)
Discipline

samyaksam-
Completely and Perfectly (e.g. Buddha, Awakaned One, Bodhi Awakened)

samyag- (Skt.); sammā (P.)
Right

sāra
Essence

sukha
Happiness. Literally, having a good axel hole, i.e. being able to travel on a cart without discomfort, i.e. ease, but broader, therefore happiness.

sūtra
Literally thread, because it joins the mind to reality. They do this by discussing the themes of practice. Because they are such discussions, they are often called discourses.

sūtra piṭaka (Skt.); sutta piṭaka (P.)
The Basket of Threads. This basket, or collection, consists of threads attributed to the Awakened One or otherwise considered the Word of the Awakened One (buddhavacana). Distinguished into phases, the Basket consists of an early phase, wherein threads were sorted according to various criteria into collections or corpuses (Nikāyas (P.); Āgamas (Skt.)), after which the collections were closed, and a later phase, in which texts were accepted variously as Word of the Awakened One. Some of these variously accepted texts fit into the Vehicle of the Hearers, while others fit into the Great Vehicle, which are of different levels of development depending upon whether they are early threads of the Great Vehicle, or later threads.