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nara man, can mean: valiant, heroic, strong.

nama mental phenomena, including those which are conditioned and also the unconditioned nama which is nibbana.

nama kkhandha group of all mental phenomena nama mental phenomena,including those which are conditioned and also the unconditioned nama which is nibbana.

nama-rupa pariccheda-nana first stage of insight, insight knowledge of the distinction between mental phenomena and physical phenomena.

nana wisdom, insight.

nana sampayutta accompanied by panna; nana means panna.

nana vippayutta unaccompanied by panna.

natthikaditthi wrong view of annihilation, assumption that there is no result of kamma.

natthi-paccaya absence-condition.

n'eva-sanna-n'asannayatana sphere of neither perception nor non- perception, the meditation subject of the fourth immaterial jhana.

nekkhamma thought of renunciation.

nibbana unconditioned reality, the reality which does not arise and fall away. The destruction of lust, hatred and delusion. The deathless. The end of suffering.

nimitta mental image one can acquire of a meditation subject.

nirodha-samapatti attainment of cessation of consciousness.

nissaya-paccaya dependence-condition.

nivaranas the hindrances, a group of defilements.