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Māra {pi}


Pāḷi; √ Māra
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alt. sp.: IPA: mɑːɾə, Velthuis: Maara, readable: maara, simple: Mara
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khmer: មារ
thai: มาร
sinhal.: මාර
burm.: မာရ
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ATI Glossary

Māra: The personification of evil and temptation.

 

Buddhist Dictionary

by late Ven. Nyanalokita Thera:

Māra: (lit. 'the killer'), is the Buddhist 'Tempter-figure. He is often called 'Māra the Evil One' (pāpimā māro) or Namuci (lit. 'the non-liberator', i.e. the opponent of liberation). He appears in the texts both as a real person (i.e. as a deity) and as personification of evil and passions, of the totality of worldly existence, and of death. Later []Pāḷi]] literature often speaks of a 'fivefold Māra' (pañca-māra): 1. Māra as a deity (devaputta-māra),
2. the Māra of defilements (kilesa-māra),
3. the Māra of the aggregates (khandha-māra),
4. the Māra of the kamma-formations (kamma-māra), and
5. Māra as death (maccu-māra).

As a real person, Māra is regarded as the deity ruling over the highest heaven of the sensuous sphere (kāmāvacara), that of the paranimmitavasavatti-devas, the 'deities wielding power over the creations of others' (Commentary to MN 1). According to tradition, when the Bodhisatta was seated under the Bodhi-tree, Māra tried in vain to obstruct his attainment of Enlightenment, first by frightening him through his hosts of demons, etc., and then by his 3 daughters' allurements. This episode is called 'Māra's war' (māra-yuddha). For 7 years Māra had followed the Buddha, looking for any weakness in him; that is, 6 years before the Enlightenment and one year after it (Snp 3.2 v.). He also tried to induce the Buddha to pass away into Parinibbāna without proclaiming the Dhamma, and also when the time for the Buddha's Parinibbāna had come, he urged him on. But the Buddha acted on his own insight in both cases. See DN 16.

For (3) Māra as the aggregates, see SN 23.1, SN 23.11, SN 23.12, SN 23.23. See Padhāna Sutta (Snp 3.2 v. 425ff.); Māra Saṁyuttā (SN 4).

 

PTS Dictionary

by the Pali Text Society:

 

Glossary Thanissaro

Māra: The personification of temptation and all forces, within and without, that create obstacles to release from saṁsāra.

 

Illustrated Glossary of Pāli Terms

by Ven. Varado Maha Thera:

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Glossary various Teacher

Māra: Evil and temptation personified; the name of a powerful malevolent deity. (Source: Glossary late Ven. Ajahn Chah)

 

See also

Suttas and Dhammadesanā

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