Pāli terms
8 terms in Latin transliteration.
Reading the transliteration
Read as Sanskrit: a macron marks a long vowel, c is said as in “church”, ñ as in “canyon”, and an h after a consonant is breathed (th as in “hothouse”).
- anattā
- Non-self (anātman) (Theravāda). The Buddhist teaching that no permanent self can be found in or behind experience.
- avijjā
- Avidyā (Buddhism). Ignorance: not a lack of information, but a misapprehension of what one is.
- dukkha
- Dukkha (Theravāda). Suffering or unsatisfactoriness, the first of the Four Noble Truths.
- jhāna
- Samādhi (Buddhism). Meditative absorption, in which the mind is wholly one with its object or wholly still.
- nibbāna
- Nirvāṇa (Theravāda). The cessation of craving and suffering; the goal of the Buddhist path.
- paññā
- Prajñā (Theravāda). Wisdom: insight into the true nature of things.
- paṭiccasamuppāda
- Dependent origination (Theravāda). The teaching that everything arises in dependence on conditions.
- sati
- Mindfulness (sati) (Theravāda). Attentive awareness of body, feeling, mind and phenomena.