Mettavihara, Mettāvihāra, Metta-vihara: 2 definitions
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Mettavihara means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionarymettāvihāra (မေတ္တာဝိဟာရ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[mettā+vihāra]
[မေတ္တာ+ဝိဟာရ]
[Pali to Burmese]
Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)mettāvihāra—
(Burmese text): (၁) မေတ္တာဖြင့်နေခြင်း၊ မေတ္တာပွါးများ၍ နေခြင်း၊ မေတ္တာပို့သနေခြင်း။ (၂) မေတ္တာဈာန်။ (တိ)(၃) မေတ္တာဖြင့် နေခြင်းရှိသော၊ မေတ္တာပွါးများနေသော၊ မေတ္တာဈာန်ဖြင့်နေသော၊သူ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Living with love, cultivating love, and spreading love. (2) Sessions of love. (3) One who is living with love, flourishing in love, and residing in the essence of love.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Vihara, Metta.
Starts with: Mettaviharabahula, Mettaviharalabhi, Mettaviharanipphatti, Mettaviharasamsucaka, Mettaviharayutta, Mettaviharika.
Full-text: Mettaviharayutta, Mettaviharanipphatti, Mettaviharasamsucaka, Mettaviharabahula.
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