magga (magga): Path. Specifically, the path to the cessation of suffering and stress. The four transcendent paths - or rather, one path with four levels of refinement - are the path to stream-entry (entering the stream to nibbana, which ensures that one will be reborn at most only seven more times), the path to once-returning, the path to nonreturning, and the path to arahantship. See phala.

 (See also: Magga, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

ekayana-magga (ekaayana-magga): A unified path; a direct path. An epithet for the practice of being mindful of the four frames of reference: body, feelings, mind, and mental qualities.

 (See also: Ekayana-magga, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Ariya Atthangika Magga (Pali) (from ariya noble + atthangika eight-limbed, eightfold from attha eight + anga limb, division + magga way, road from the verbal root mrig to track, trace, investigate)

Noble eightfold path; the fourth of the Four Noble Truths (chattari ariyasachchani) traditionally held to constitute the initial discourse of Gautama Buddha, comprising: 1) right insight (sammaditthi); 2) right resolve (sammasamkappa); 3) right speech (sammavacha); 4) right action (sammakammanta); 5) right living (sammajiva); 6) right effort (sammavayama); 7) right mindfulness, right recollection (sammasati); 8) right concentration (sammasamadhi).

See also ARYASHTANGA-MARGA (for Sanskrit equivalents).

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The Four Noble Truths (Pali, "cattari ariya saccani") are taught in Buddhism as the fundamental insight or enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha (the historical Buddha), which led to the formulation of the Buddhist philosophy. Dukkha: There is suffering in life for all beings. Samudaya: There is a cause of suffering, which is attachment and desire (tanha). Nirodha: There is a way out of suffering, which is to eliminate attachment and desire. Magga: The path that leads out ...

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The Noble Eightfold Path (Pali: ariya atthangika magga), according to Buddhism and as taught by Siddhartha Buddha, is the way to the cessation of suffering, the fourth part of the Four Noble Truths. It is summarized into three important categories: wisdom (pañña), virtue (sila), and concentration (samadhi). The following is An Analysis of the Path, a sutra or discourse delivered by Siddhartha Buddha from the Tipitaka, explaining this Noble Eightfold Path in detail. In all these, the word "ri ...

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lokuttara (lokuttara): Transcendent; supramundane (see magga, phala, and nibbana).

 (See also: Lokuttara, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

phala (phala): Fruition. Specifically, the fruition of any of the four transcendent paths (see magga).

 (See also: Phala, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

puthujjana (puthujjana): One of the many-folk; a "worlding" or run-of-the-mill person. An ordinary person who has not yet realized any of the four stages of Awakening (see magga). Compare ariya-puggala.

 (See also: Puthujjana, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

ariya-puggala (ariya-puggala): Noble person; enlightened individual. An individual who has realized at least one of the four noble paths (see magga) or their fruitions (see phala).

Compare puthujjana (worldling).

 (See also: Ariya-puggala, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

sangha (sangha): On the conventional (sammati) level, this term denotes the communities of Buddhist monks and nuns; on the ideal (ariya) level, it denotes those followers of the Buddha, lay or ordained, who have attained at least stream-entry (see sotapanna), the first of the transcendent paths (see magga) culminating in nibbana. Recently, particularly in the West, the term "sangha" has been popularly adapted to mean the wider sense of "community of followers on the Buddhist path," although this usage finds no basis in the Pali Canon. The term "parisa" may be more appropriate for this much broader meaning.

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Aryasatya (Sanskrit) (from arya holy, noble from the verbal root ri to move, arise, attain + satya true, real from the verbal root as to be)

Noble truth; in the plural, the four great truths of Buddhism -- chatvari aryasatyani (Pali, chattari ariyasachchani): 1) duhkha -- life is suffering; 2) samudaya -- origin, cause, craving, egoistic desire (tanha) is the cause of suffering; 3) nirodha -- destruction, extinction of desire brings cessation of suffering; and 4) aryashtanga-marga -- the eightfold path leads to extinction of suffering.

See also ARIYASACHCHA (for Pali equivalents); ARIYA ATTHANGIKA-MAGGA; ARYASHTANGA-MARGA

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bodhi-pakkhiya-dhamma (bodhi-pakkhiya-dhammaa): "Wings to Awakening" - seven sets of principles that are conducive to Awakening and that, according to the Buddha, form the heart of his teaching:

(1)         the four frames of reference (see satipatthana);

(2)         four right exertions (sammappadhana) - the effort to prevent unskillful states from arising in the mind, to abandon whatever unskillful states have already arisen, to give rise to the good, and to maintain the good that has arisen;

(3)         four bases of success (iddhipada) - desire, persistence, intentness, circumspection;

(4)         five dominant factors (indriya) - conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, discernment;

(5)         five strengths (bala) - identical with

(6)         seven factors for Awakening (bojjhanga) - mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, persistence, rapture (see piti), serenity, concentration, equanimity; and

(7)         the eightfold path (magga) - Right View, Right Attitude, Right Speech, Right Activity, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.

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Aryashtanga-marga aryastanga-marga (Sanskrit) (from arya holy, noble + ashta eight + anga limb, division + marga path, way from the verbal root mrig to seek, strive to attain, investigate)

Holy eight-limbed way; in Buddhism the Noble Eightfold Path enunciated by Gautama Buddha as the fourth of the Four Noble Truths (chattari aryasatyani). Consistent practice of aryashtanga-marga leads the disciple ultimately to perfect wisdom, love, and liberation from samsara (the round of repetitive births and deaths).

The Eightfold Path is enumerated as: 1) samyagdrishti (right insight); 2) samyaksamkalpa (right resolve); 3) samyagvach (right speech); 4) samyakkarmantra (right action); 5) samyagajiva (right living); 6) samyagvyayama (right exertion); 7) samyaksmriti (right recollection); and 8) samyaksamadhi (right concentration).

See also ARIYA ATTHANGIKA-MAGGA (for Pali equivalents)

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Eightfold Path. See ARIYA ATTHANGIKA MAGGA; ARYASHTANGA-MARGA

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Ariyasachcha ariyasacca (Pali) (from ariya noble, distinguished, of high birth + sachcha real, true)

Noble truth; in the plural, the Four Noble Truths (chattari ariyasachchani) set forth by Gautama Buddha in his first sermon: 1) pain (duhkha); 2) cause, origin of pain (samudaya) is desire (panha); 3) destruction of desire eliminates pain (nirodha); and 4) the road or footpath (magga), the noble eightfold way (ariya atthangika magga).

See also ARYASATYA (for Sanskrit equivalents)

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The final Quarashi line-up was as follows: Egill Olafur Thorarensen a.k.a. Tiny born January 17, 1984 Omar Örn Hauksson a.k.a. Omar Swarez born January 28, 1975 Steinar Orri Fjeldsted a.k.a. Steini a.k.a. Stoney born July 7, 1976 and Sölvi Blöndal born January 3, 1975 This was the group's lineup from 2003 until their breakup in 2005. Hössi Olafsson founded the group with Sölvi and Steini in 1996, and served as the lead vocalist and frontman, but left in 2002. Egill Olafur Thorarensen replaced O ...

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(samadhi) 6. Right Effort (or Right Endeavour) - samma vayama "And what, monks, is right effort? (i) There is the case where a monk generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the sake of the non-arising of evil, unskillful qualities that have not yet arisen. (ii) He generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the sake of the abandonment of evil, unskillful ...

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Derivatives: Namo Amitabha Pāli: namo Sanskrit: namaḥ or namas Derivatives: Sanskrit: namas amitābha 南無 Cn: nammu Jp: namu or nam Vi: nam-mô Derivatives: 南無阿弥陀佛 Cn: Nàmó Āmítuó fó Jp: Namu Amida butsu Vi: Nam-mô A-di-đà Phật Pāli: nibb ...

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