Four

by Hla Min

Updated : Apr 2026

Numeral

• Hindu-Arablic numeral : 4
• Roman numeral : IV
• In Burmese : လေး

Recent Buddhas of ဘဒ္ဒကမ္ဘာ

• Kakusandha
• Konagamana
• Kassapa
• Gautama

Sacca / Noble Truth သစ္စာ

• Dukkha ဒုက္ခ
  Unsatisfactoriness / Misery / Suffering
• Samudiya သမုဒယ
  Cause of suffering
• Nirodha နိရောဓ
  Cessation of suffering
• Magga မဂ္ဂ
  The Path / The Middle Way

Foundation of Mindfulness

• Contemplation of the kaya / body ကာယ
• Contemplation of the vedana / feeling ဝေဒနာ
• Contemplation of the citta / mind စိတ္တ
• Contemplation of the dhamma ဓမ္မ / general objects — not covered by the above three

Brahma Vihara Practice

• Metta မေတ္တာ
  Loving kindness / Unbounded love
• Karuna ကရုဏာ
  Compassion
• Mudita မုဒိတာ
  Sympathetic joy / Altruistic joy
• Uppekkha ဥပေက္ခာ
  Equanimity

Guardian deities

• Dhatarattha (East) ဓတ္တရဋ္ဌ
• Virulhaka (South) ဝိရူဠက
• Virupkkha (West) ဝိရူပက္ခ
• Kuvera (North) ကုဝေရ

Mahabhuta

• Patthavi ပထဝီ
  Earth element
• Tejo တေဇော
  Fire element
• Apo အာပေါ
  Water or liquid element
• Vayo ဝါယော
  Air or wind element

Miscellaneous

• Four sided figures စတုဂံ
  Rectangle, Square, Parallelogram, Parallepiped, Rhombus
• Baseball
  first base, second base, third base, home plate
• Games
  Four quarters (e.g. Football, Basketball)
• Rowing လေးတက်လှော်
  Coxless fours, Coxed fours, Quadruple sculls

• Education ပညာရေး
  Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior
• April ဧပြီ
  4th month of the Gregorian Calendar

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