Tag: Number

by Hla Min

Updated : Aug 2025

Numerals

• HIndu-Arabic numeral : 8
• Roman Numeral : VIII

Magggingas

• Samma dithi / Right view
• Samma sankappa / Right thoughts
• Samma vaca Right speech
• Samma kamanta / Right action
• Samma ajiva / Right livelihood
• Samma vayamo / Right effort
• Samma sati / Right mindfulness
• Samma samadhi / Right concentration

Precepts for Ajivatthamaka sila

Abstain from

• killing living beings
• taking what is not freely given
• committing sexual misconduct
• telling lies
• slandering or divisive speech
• harsh speech
• frivolous talk or talking nonsense
• wrong livelihood

Uposatha Precepts

Abstain from

• killing living beings
• taking what is not freely given
• ignoble conduct (sexual intercourse)
• telling lies
• intoxicating drinks and drugs that cause heedlessness
• eating after mid-day (until next dawn)
  (a) dancing, singing, playing music, witnessing shows or entertainment
  (b) wearing flowers, using perfumes, beautifying with cosmetics
• using high and luxurious seas and beds

Importune Moments

• Being born in hell
• Being born in the animal realm
• Being born in the Peta realm (of ghosts or ever-hungry beings) and in the Asura realm (of demons)
• Being born as a long-lived Brahma in the realms of No-Perception (Asannasatta) and No-Form (Arupaloka)
• Being born as a person in a remote borderland inaccessible to monks, nuns, and lay people
• Being born as a person with wrong views
• Being born as a man with no intelligence to understand the Dhamma
• Being born as a man with intelligence but when the Buddha has not arisen

Miscellaneous

• Octave
  Eight notes apart

• August
  Eighth month in the Gregorian Calendar
• October
  Eighth month in the Old Roman Calendar
• President’s Challenge Cup (RUBC)
  Inter-club Coxed Eights
• Gallon
  Eight pints
• Mile
  Eight furlongs
• Sabbath includes 8th Waxing day and 8th Waning day