Tiracchanayoni, Tiracchana-yoni, Tiracchānayoni: 5 definitions
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Tiracchanayoni 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.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
'animal womb'; birth as animal. The animal kingdom belongs to the sensuous world (s. loka), is one of the 4 lower worlds (s. apāya) and one of the 3 woeful courses of existence (s. gati).
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
tiracchānayoni : (f.) the realm of the brute creation.
Tiracchānayoni refers to: the realm of the brute creation, the animals. Among the 5 gatis (niraya t. manussā devā pettivisaya) it counts as an apāyagati, a state of misery D. I, 228; III, 234; S. I, 34; III, 225 sq.; IV, 168, 307; A. I, 60; II, 127, 129; Pv IV. 111; Vism. 103, 427; PvA. 27, 166;
Note: tiracchānayoni is a Pali compound consisting of the words tiracchāna and yoni.
tiracchānayoni (တိရစ္ဆာနယောနိ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[tiracchāna+yoni．(tiyoni-saṃ)]
[တိရစ္ဆာန+ယောနိ။ (တိယျီက်ယောနိ-သံ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
tiracchānayoni—
(Burmese text): (က) တိရစ္ဆာန်တို့၏ ခန္ဓာအဖို့အစု။ (ခ) တိရစ္ဆာန်သာလျှင်ဖြစ်သော ခန္ဓာအဖို့အစု။ (ဂ) တိရစ္ဆာန်တို့၏ဖြစ်ရာအရပ်၊ တိရစ္ဆာန်ဘုံ။
(Auto-Translation): (a) The grouping of animals for the body. (b) The grouping of the body that is only for animals. (c) The places where animals exist, the animal world.
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.
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Partial matches: Tiracchana, Yoni.
Starts with: Tiracchanayonidukkha, Tiracchanayonigabbha, Tiracchanayonigamaniya, Tiracchanayonigami, Tiracchanayonigata, Tiracchanayonika, Tiracchanayonikatha, Tiracchanayoniloka, Tiracchanayonipada, Tiracchanayonisamvattanika.
Full-text: Ahetukatiracchanayoni, Tiracchanayonika, Tiracchanayonikatha, Tiracchanayonigabbha, Tiracchanayonipada, Tiracchanayonisamvattanika, Khinatiracchanayoni, Khinatiracchanayonika, Tiracchanayoniloka, Tiracchanayonidukkha, Tiracchanayonigami, Tiracchanayonigata, Tiracchanayonigamaniya, Asura, Loka, Sotapanna, Niraya, Gati, Yava.
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Dhammapada (Illustrated) (by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero)
Verse 170 - The Story of Many Monks < [Chapter 13 - Loka Vagga (World)]
Verse 126 - The Story of Venerable Tissa < [Chapter 9 - Pāpa Vagga (Evil)]
A Correct Vision (by Venerable Professor Dhammavihari)
The Buddha and His Teachings (by Narada Thera)
A Manual of Abhidhamma (by Nārada Thera)
Four Planes of Life < [Chapter V - Process Freed Section]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
II. Beings to be established in the six perfections < [Part 3 - Establishing beings in the six perfections]