Pali could refer to: The Hawaiian word, meaning cliffs. The Nuʻuanu Pali region on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. A town and district in Rajasthan, western India, Pali, Rajasthan. A Middle Indo-Aryan dialect, Pāli. The Ganapati temple of pali and place in Maharastra, Ballaleshwar Pali. Other related archivesBallaleshwar Pali, Ganapati, Hawaiian, Hawaiian island, India, Indo-Arya

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Pali (paali, paa.li): The canon of texts (see Tipitaka) preserved by the Theravada school and, by extension, the language in which those texts are composed.

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Pali: Ancient language used by the Mahayana, because it was the vernacular language.

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Ballaleshwar temple is on of the eight lord Ganesh temples, Ashtavinayak. Among Astavinayakas, Pali's Ballaleshwar is the only vinayak who is famous by his devotee's name. It is located in village Pali which is at a distance of 30kms from Karjat in Sudhagad taluka of Raigad district. It is situated between fort Sarasgad and river Amba flowing on the other side. Ballaleshwar Pali - The temple. The original wooden temple was renovated in 1760 to make way for a new stone temple designed by Shri F ...

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• Ballaleshwar Pali - The temple
• Ballaleshwar Pali - The idol

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The Pali Canon is one the earliest existing scripture collections of the Buddhist tradition. These scriptures were recited orally from the time of the Buddha and were put into writing in Sri Lanka around 30 BC. Written in the Pali language, these texts form the scriptures of the Theravada school of Buddhism. Versions of many Pali canon scriptures also form the basis of the canon of many non-Theravada schools. These schools canons typically contain an incomplete selection of scriptures from the Pali canon, often with minor additions or alterations, and are usually recorded in Sanskr ...

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Pali. The ancient language of Magadha, one that preceded the more refined Sanskrit. The Buddhist Scriptures are all written in this language.

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Pali The language spoken in the north of India from and before the 7th century BC to about the 5th century AD. It is still the literary sacred language of Burma, Thailand, and Ceylon. There were two factors which made Pali one of the most important literary languages of the world: first, with the rise of the Kosalas into a kingdom, the language of its capital (Savatthi, in Nepal) become the form of speech almost universally adopted. Secondly, Gautama Buddha, being of Kosalan by birth, probably used the Pali language in giving forth his teachings, and therefore the subsequent philosophical writings of his disciples were similarly couched in this language.

Sanskrit, on the other hand, "was really the sacred language of the Brahmanas and held more or less private or secret by them. The Sanskrit even in those ancient times was the vehicle for the archaic Wisdom-teachings of the Aryan peoples of India, such as the Vedas, and the Puranas, and the Upanishads, and the great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. But Pali was one of several other languages of culture in ancient India, all which were of so-called Prakrit character, although very little is known about these other literary languages. Pali has survived to the present time because . . . it became the linguistic vehicle in which were enshrined the teachings of Buddhism, i.e., of Southern Buddhism, much as Latin has survived because enshrining the teachings of early medieval Christianity. Just as there were in ancient Italy many other Italic tongues, each one having its literary or cultured form, and likewise its popular idiom, so was it in ancient India.

"Pali is not a 'washed-out Sanskrit.' Sanskrit was rather a mystery-language which was 'composed' or 'builded up' to perfection by initiates of the Sanctuaries; and because it was thus constructed into an almost perfect expression of human thought, at least for that day, it was called samskrita, which means 'composed,' 'constructed.' Thus Pali is not a true child of Sanskrit, but is and was the literary form of one of the ancient languages of India popularly spoken over an apparently wide stretch of the Indian Peninsula, . . ." (SOPh 694-5).

In the 3rd century BC the language used throughout Northern India was practically one, and it was derived directly from the speech of the Vedic Aryans, retaining many Vedic forms lost in the later classical Sanskrit. The basis of the language used in the Buddhist canon was that used in Ujjayini, the capital of the Avanti district. The chief doctrines of Buddhism are recorded in the works known as the Suttas (Sutras in Sanskrit) -- there being four Nikayas consisting of 16 volumes; the fifth Nikaya being the Jatakas (birth stories).

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The Pratihara dynasty of Rajputs, also known as the Gurjara-Pratiharas, established a kingdom in Marwar in the 6th century which included Pali. They ruled from Mandor, near modern Jodhpur. In the early 13th century, the Rathore Rajput clan fled west from the kingdom of Kannauj in northern India, which they had lost to the Sultanate of Delhi. The Rathor family chronicles relate that Siyaji or Sheoji, grandson of Jai Chandra, the last Gahadvala Rathore king of Kannauj, came to Marwar on a pilgrimage to Dwarka in Gujarat, and on halting ...

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Pali Rajasthan, Pali Rajasthan - History, Pali Rajasthan - Pali District

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Pali Canon: the oldest sacred collection of Buddhist writings from the 3rd-1st centuries BCE, written in the Pali language, and comprising three main divisions: the "Basket of Discipline" (Vinaya Pitaka), the "Basket of Discourses" (Sutta Pitaka), and the "Basket of Ultimate Doctrine" (Abhidhamma Pitaka).

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The Nu‘uanu Pali was the site of one of the bloodiest battles in Hawaiian history, in which Kamehameha I conquered the island of the O‘ahu, bringing it under his rule. In 1795 Kamehameha I sailed from his home island of Hawai‘i with an army of 10,000 soldiers. After conquering the islands of Maui and Moloka‘i, he moved on to O‘ahu. The pivotal battle for the island occurred in Nu‘uanu Valley, where the defenders of O‘ahu, led by Kalanikupule, were driven back up into the valley where they were trapped above the cliff. Thousands of Kalanikupule's soldiers were driven off the edge of the ...

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Nuuanu Pali, Nuuanu Pali - History, Nuuanu Pali - Nu‘uanu Pali Tunnels

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The original wooden temple was renovated in 1760 to make way for a new stone temple designed by Shri Fadnis. This stone is shaped in the form of the letter 'shree'; it was made by mixing lead with the cement during construction. The east-facing temple was carefully positioned so that during Dakshinayan at sun-rise, the rays of the sun falls directly on the Vinayaka. The temple contains a bell that was brought back by Chimaji Appa after h ...

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Ballaleshwar Pali, Ballaleshwar Pali - The temple, Ballaleshwar Pali - The idol

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T. W. Rhys Davids was one of three British civil servants who were posted to Sri Lanka, in the 19th_century, the others being George Turnour, and Robert Caesar Childers (1838-1876). At this time Buddhism in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) was struggling under the weight of foreign rule and intense missionary activity by Christians. It was an administrative requirement that all civil servants should be familiar with the language, literature, and culture of the land in which they were posted, so the three men studied with several scholar monks where, along with an introduction to Sinhala culture and ...

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Pali Text Society, Pali Text Society - History, Pali Text Society - Significant members of the Pali Text society

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ajaan, ajahn, achaan, etc.: (Thai). Teacher; mentor. Equivalent to the Pali acariya.

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sutta (sutta; Skt. sutra): Literally, "thread"; a discourse or sermon by the Buddha or his contemporary disciples. After the Buddha's death the suttas were passed down in the Pali language according to a well-established oral tradition, and were finally committed to written form in Sri Lanka around 100 BCE. More than 10,000 suttas are collected in the Sutta Pitaka, one of the principal bodies of scriptural literature in Theravada Buddhism. The Pali Suttas are widely regarded as the earliest record of the Buddha's teachings.

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Abhidhamma (abhidhamma):

(1) In the discourses of the Pali Canon, this term simply means "higher Dhamma," and a systematic attempt to define the Buddha's teachings and understand their interrelationships.

(2) A later collection of analytical treatises based on lists of categories drawn from the teachings in the discourses, added to the Canon several centuries after the Buddha's life.

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stupa (Pali thupa (thuupa)): Originally, a tumulus or burial mound enshrining relics of a holy person - such as the Buddha - or objects associated with his life. Over the centuries this has developed into the tall, spired monuments familiar in temples in Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Burma; and into the pagodas of China, Korea, and Japan.

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Historically, the first written record of the Pāli canon is believed to have been composed in Sri Lanka, based on a prior oral tradition. The transmission of written Pāli has retained a universal system of alphabetic values, but has expressed those values in a stunning variety of actual scripts. This is confusing to many westerners, who tend to assume that one script is ineluctably tied to one set of phonemes. Early Pāli inscriptions made during the reign of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka were composed in the Ashokan Brahmi script; in ...

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Pāli, Pāli - Language origins and development, Pāli - Lexicon, Pāli - Example of Pāli with English translation, Pāli - Pali Alphabets Unicode, Pāli - Pali text in ASCII, Pāli - Setting up a font for Pali transliteration in Windows

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tipitaka (tipi.taka; Skt. tripitaka): The Buddhist (Pali) Canon. Literally, "three baskets", in reference to the three principal divisions of the Canon: the Vinaya Pitaka (disciplinary rules); Sutta Pitaka (discourses); and Abhidhamma Pitaka (abstract philosophical treatises).

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There are several fonts to use for Pali transliteration. Of them, Unicode fonts are recommended since they are interchangeable while non-unicode fonts are not, and also because Unicode seems to be the future for all fonts. Out of many Unicode fonts providing all necessary diacritics for Pali, Times Ext Roman (serif), Courier Ext (monotype), and Vu-arial (sans-serif) seem to have the best appearance both on screen and in print. They can be freely downloaded from here, here, and here respectively for use on Windows; the former two are W ...

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Pāli, Pāli - Language origins and development, Pāli - Lexicon, Pāli - Example of Pāli with English translation, Pāli - Pali Alphabets Unicode, Pāli - Pali text in ASCII, Pāli - Setting up a font for Pali transliteration in Windows

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brahman (from Pali braahmaa.na): The brahman (brahmin) caste of India has long maintained that its members, by their birth, are worthy of the highest respect.

Buddhism borrowed the term brahman to apply to those who have attained the goal, to show that respect is earned not by birth, race, or caste, but by spiritual attainment. Used in the Buddhist sense, this term is synonymous with arahant.

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