Pali is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PALI in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Hawaiian) a cliff in Hawaii
• (in Hawaii) a cliff.
• an Indic language, closely related to Sanskrit, in which the sacred texts of Theravada Buddhism are written. Pali developed in northern India in the 5th–2nd centuries BC.
• relating to Pali.
• pl. of Palus.
• A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc.
• an ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism
• an Indic language, closely related to Sanskrit, in which the sacred texts of Theravada Buddhism are written. Pali developed in northern India in the 5th–2nd centuries BC.
• cliff in Hawaii

Words related to PALI

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Words that contain PALI

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How to use PALI in a sentence

• The terms Pali and Sanskrit Buddhism are convenient and as accurate as can be expected of any nomenclature covering so large a field.
• In the Pali books this doctrine is applied chiefly to the soul and psychological enquiries.
• He has much the same literary history as Avalokita, not being mentioned in the Pali Canon nor in the earlier Sanskrit works such as the Lalita-vistara and Divyâvadâna.
• Pali Buddhism prevails in all, as well as in modern Camboja.
• Buddhaghosa distinguishes clearly between text and comment, between Pali and Sinhalese documents.
• The latter inscription and also one from Mergui ascribed to the eleventh century seem to be in mixed Sanskrit and Pali.
• After the fourteenth century we have Cambojan annals of dubious value and we also find inscriptions in Pali or in modern Cambojan.
• Often, however, the translator, whatever his weaknesses may have been, had before him a text differing in bulk and arrangement from the Pali and Sanskrit texts which we possess.
• Thus, there are four Chinese translations of works bearing some relation to the Dhammapada of the Pali Canon.
• In all these collections there was much common matter, both prose and verse, but some were longer, some shorter, some were in Pali and some in Sanskrit.
• The practice is not entirely unknown in the legends of Pali Buddhism.
• It is longer and more mixed with narrative than the corresponding Pali code.
• It is possible that Sinhalese may have brought Pali books to northern India and given them to Tibetans whom they met there.
• I have already mentioned the presence of translations from the Pali.
• They exclude from the latter works analogous to the Pali Nikayas and Vinaya, and also the Abhidharma of the Sarvastivadins.
• Is this an allusion to the Pali expression Sotapanno? The name appears in Japanese as Rinzai.
• He studied Hebrew, Arabic and Persian, and was able to lecture on Sanskrit, afterwards his specialty, Pali, Zend and even on Chinese.
• Riding parties to the Pali and picnics at Pearl Harbor and the plantations along the railway filled up every hour of the long, soft, sensuous days.
• About 1300 the possessions of Rama Komheng, King of Siam, included Pegu and Pali Buddhism prevailed among his subjects.
• BOOK III PALI BUDDHISM BOOK III In the previous book I have treated chiefly the general characteristics of Indian religion.
• The personal name of the Buddha was Siddhartha in Sanskrit or Siddhattha in Pali, meaning he who has achieved his object, but it is rarely used.
• But in Pali works he is described just as frequently by the name of Bhagava or the Lord.
• We must not suppose that the meetings held at Rajagaha and Vesali were similar to the Council of Nicaea or that they produced the works edited by the Pali Text Society.
• Those already made known are partly Mahayanist and partly similar to the Pali Canon though not a literal translation of it.
• It will be necessary, however, to touch on the relations of Pali and Sanskrit texts.
• I have already raised the question of the relative value attaching to Pali and Sanskrit texts as authorities for early history.
• For the possible existence of scriptures anterior to the Pali version and in another dialect, see S.

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