Nissaya, Nissāya: 7 definitions
Introduction:
Nissaya means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit. 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.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
(Foundation) nissaya, one of the 24 conditions (paccaya). Wrong f. of morality, s. nissaya. - f. of sympathy: sangaha-vatthu - f.-forming absorptions: pādaka-jjhāna; - f. of an Arahat's mentality: s. adhitthāna.
'foundation'. The 2 wrong foundations of morality are
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craving (tanhā-nissaya) and
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views (ditthi-nissaya).
Hence there are two wrong bases of morality:
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morality based on craving (tanhā-nissita-sīla) and
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morality based on views (ditthi-nissita-sīla). (App.)
"'Based on craving' is that kind of morality which has come about by the desire for a happy existence, e.g.: 'O that by this morality I might become a godlike or heavenly being!' (A.IX.172). 'Based on views' is that morality which has been induced by the view that through the observation of certain moral rules purification may be attained" (Vis.M. I).
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
nissaya : (m.) 1. support; 2. protection; 3. that on which anything depends. || nissāya (ind.), by means of; by one's support; near by.
Nissaya, (Sk. niśraya, of ni+śri, corresp. in meaning to Sk. āśraya) that on which anything depends, support, help, protection; endowment, resource, requisite, supply; foundation, reliance on (Acc. or —°) Vin. I, 58 (the four resources of bhikkhu, viz. piṇḍiyālopa-bhojanaṃ, paṃsukūla — cīvaraṃ, rukkhamūla — senāsanaṃ, pūtimuttabhesajjaṃ); II, 274, 278; D. III, 137, 141; A. I, 117; III, 271; IV, 353; V, 73; Sn. 753, 877; Nd1 108 (two n. : taṇhā° & diṭṭhi°), 190, cp. Nd2 s. v.; Nd2 397A (the requisites of a bhikkhu in diff. enumeration); Ps. II, 49 sq. , 58 sq. , 73 sq.; II, 220; Nett 7, 65; Vism. 12, 535. nissayaṃ karoti to rely on, to be founded on to take one’s stand in Sn. 800.—Cp. nissāya & nissita.
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Nissāya, (prep. c, Acc.) (ger. of nissayati, Sk. *niśrāya, BSk niśritya, ni+śri) leaning on (in all fig. meanings) Nd2 368 (=upanissāya, ārammaṇaṃ ālambanaṃ karitvā). ‹-› 1. near, near by, on, at J. I, 167 (pāsānapiṭṭhaṃ), 221 (padumasaraṃ); PvA. 24 (bāhā), 134 (taṃ=with him). ‹-› 2. by means of, through, by one’s support, by way of J. I, 140 (rājānaṃ: under the patronage of the k.); IV, 137 (id.); II, 154 (tumhe); Miln. 40 (kāyaṃ), 253 (id.); PvA. 27 (ye=yesaṃ hetu), 154 (nadī° alongside of).—3. because of, on account of, by reason of, for the sake of J. I, 203 (amhe), 255 (dhanaṃ), 263 (maṃ); PvA. 17 (kiṃ), 67 (namaṃ), 130 (taṃ).—Cp. nissaya, nissita. (Page 374)
1) nissaya (နိဿယ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[nissaya+a]
[နိဿယ+အ]
2) nissaya (နိဿယ) [(na) (န)]—
[nissaya+dātabbatika]
[နိဿယ+ဒါတဗ္ဗတိက]
3) nissaya (နိဿယ) [(na) (န)]—
[nissaya+gahaṇa．kye]
[နိဿယ+ဂဟဏ။ နောက်ပုဒ်ကျေ]
4) nissaya (နိဿယ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[ni+si+a．ka．527．rū．568．nīti,sutta．11va9．kaccāyana,ṭī,,．45．maṇidīpa,2．pe．．,ṭī．1va6va．]
[နိ+သိ+အ။ ကစ္စည်း။ ၅၂၇။ ရူ။ ၅၆၈။ နီတိ၊ သုတ္တ။ ၁၁ဝ၉။ ကစ္စာယန၊ ဋီ၊ ဟောင်း၊သစ်။ ၄၅။ မဏိဒီပ၊ ၂။ပေ။ ဓာန်။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၁ဝ၆ဝ။]
5) nissāya (နိဿာယ) [(kri,vi) (ကြိ၊ဝိ)]—
[ni+si+tvā]
[နိ+သိ+တွာ]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) nissaya—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) မှီရာ၊ တည်ရာ။ (ခ) မှီရာ-တည်ရာ-၏ အဖြစ် (ဘာဝပ္ပဓာန်)။ (၂) နိဿယပစ္စည်း။ (၃) နိဿယည်း။ နိဿယည်းဝေရာ၊ (နည်းယူရန်) မှီခိုနေအပ်သော ဆရာ။ (၄) အကြီးအမှူး၊ အကြီးအကဲ။ (၅) အကြောင်း။ (တိ) (၆) မှီ-မှီခို-အပ်-ရာဖြစ်-သော။ (က) တဏှာ,ဒိဋ္ဌိ။ (ခ) ပစ္စည်းလေးပါး။ (ဂ) ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်စသည်။ (၇) မှီတတ်သော။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) Dependency, placement. (b) The state of dependency (natural phenomenon). (2) Fundamental material. (3) Dependency. Dependency-related, (in terms of methodology) a teacher to rely on. (4) Superior, authority. (5) Reason. (c) (6) Dependent, reliant in nature. (a) Essence, quality. (b) Four basic materials. (c) Individual, etc. (7) Able to be dependent.
2) nissaya—
(Burmese text): နိဿယည်း ယူခြင်း၊ နိဿယည်းဆရာကို မှီခို၍ နေရန် လျှောက်ထားခြင်း။ နိဿယကရဏီယ-ကြည့်။ (ဝိမတိ၊၂။၁၂၉)။
(Auto-Translation): Taking refuge, applying for reliance on the refuge master. See the refuge doctrine. (Wimati, 2.129).
3) nissaya—
(Burmese text): နိဿယနဒါတဗ္ဗတိက်၊ (နိဿယည်း မပေး-အပ်-ထိုက်-ရ-သော အင်္ဂါသုံးပါး)။
(Auto-Translation): Nisthyanada Tabbetek, (Nisthyay Ma Pei-Ap-Htaik-Yar-Tha Aingga Thone Par).
4) nissaya—
(Burmese text): မှီရာတရားနှင့်တူသော။ နိဿယသဒိသ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): Similar to the concept of refuge. Observing the condition of certainty.
5) nissāya—
(Burmese text): မှီ၍၊ (၁) ကပ်ငြိ (ငြိကပ်)၍။ (၂) အခြေခံပြု၍။ (၃) မှီရာပြု၍၊ စွဲမှီ၍၊ အားကိုးတစ်ခုအမှီ- အမှီတကဲသဟဲ-ပြု၍။
(Auto-Translation): (1) To lean against; (2) To base on; (3) To support, to rely on one thing - to depend on it completely.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Ṇissaya (णिस्सय) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Niśraya.
2) Ṇissaya (णिस्सय) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Niḥsṛta.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Tva, Mi, Shi, Ci, A, Gahana, Nissaya, Ni.
Starts with (+26): Nissaya Paccaya, Nissaya Sutta, Nissaya Vagga, Nissayabheda, Nissayabhidhana, Nissayabhuta, Nissayacariya, Nissayadahana, Nissayadana, Nissayadayaka, Nissayadayakarahitatthana, Nissayadhitthanabhuta, Nissayaghatana, Nissayakamma, Nissayakara, Nissayakaraniya, Nissayalakkhana, Nissayamahabhuta, Nissayamahantata, Nissayamuccaka.
Full-text (+142): Upanissaya, Abhinissaya, Upanissayati, Anissaya, Ditthinissaya, Nissayati, Nissaya Sutta, Garunissaya, Nissayasampanna, Nissayitva, Nissaya Paccaya, Annamannanissaya, Mulanissaya, Nissayabhuta, Nissayavipaka, Nissayasima, Nissayarammana, Nissayarocana, Asamananissaya, Apodhatunissaya.
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Search found 31 books and stories containing Nissaya, Ni-si-a, Ni-si-tva, Ni-si-tvā, Nissāya, Ṇissaya, Nissaya-a, Nissaya-databbatika, Nissaya-dātabbatika, Nissaya-gahana, Nissaya-gahaṇa, Nissayas; (plurals include: Nissayas, as, tvas, tvās, Nissāyas, Ṇissayas, databbatikas, dātabbatikas, gahanas, gahaṇas, Nissayases). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga (by T. W. Rhys Davids)
Mahavagga, Khandaka 1, Chapter 36 < [Khandaka 1 - The Admission to the Order of Bhikkhus]
Mahavagga, Khandaka 1, Chapter 32 < [Khandaka 1 - The Admission to the Order of Bhikkhus]
Mahavagga, Khandaka 1, Chapter 73 < [Khandaka 1 - The Admission to the Order of Bhikkhus]
Buddhist Monastic Discipline (by Jotiya Dhirasekera)
Chapter VII - The Discipline and Development of the Mind
Chapter XII - Spiritual Leadership and Life in the Community
Vinaya (3): The Cullavagga (by T. W. Rhys Davids)
Cullavagga, Khandaka 1, Chapter 5 < [Khandaka 1 - The Minor Disciplinary Proceedings]
Cullavagga, Khandaka 1, Chapter 11 < [Khandaka 1 - The Minor Disciplinary Proceedings]
Cullavagga, Khandaka 4, Chapter 7 < [Khandaka 4 - The Settlement of Disputes among the Fraternity]
Vinaya Pitaka (3): Khandhaka (by I. B. Horner)
On dismissal < [1. Going forth (Pabbajjā)]
On the duties to the teacher < [1. Going forth (Pabbajjā)]
Patthana Dhamma (by Htoo Naing)
Chapter 12 - Nissaya paccayo (or dependence condition)
Chapter 27 - Avigata paccayo (or non-disappearance condition)
Dhammapada (Illustrated) (by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero)
Verse 164 - The Story of Venerable Kāla < [Chapter 12 - Atta Vagga (Self)]