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GLOSSARY NOTE: Fr = French, Kh = Khmer, P = Pali, S = Sanskrit, Th = Thai achar (Kh). Lay preceptor; wise man; honorific for a former Buddhist monk ajiste (Fr). Member of the Auberges de jeunesse aksa (Kh). Writing, script aksa chrieng (Kh). Oblique style of Khmer script aksa mul (Kh). Rounded style of Khmer script angkaa (Kh). (1) Organization; (2) in Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1978), used to refer to the regime anitcang (Th; P anicca). Buddhist law of impermanence apsara (Kh). Celestial nymph, heavenly dancer arak-ta (Kh). Malignant spirit Arrêté (Fr). Ministerial, government, or local decree ashram (S āsrama). Hermitage or place of retreat for a religious group atman (Kh; S ātman, self, soul; P attā). Soul, spirit auberge de jeunesse (Fr). Youth hostel Auberges de jeunesse (Fr). Youth hostel organization bangsaa (Malay). Race, lineage barang (Kh; Th farang; Hindustani ferenghi). French; European bikkhu (Kh). Fully ordained monk, a member of the Buddhist sangha bon-amnaac (Kh). Power, authority bon-kathen (Kh). Kathen festival marking the end of the Buddhist lent bon (Kh; P punnya; S punya, rendered as punnya (good) in the Saveros Pou transliteration system; Th bun; Burmese phon; note also possible linkages with Fr bon and English boon). Goodness; meritorious deed; rank, grade; promotion; festival; a kind of auspicious, purifying power or quality bon-sak (Kh). Honor, merit, dignity, promotion, rank borann (Kh). Ancient, old botraa (Kh). Son Brahma. The first god of the Hindu triad; the creator of the universe Brahmin. Priest; one of the highest or priestly caste among the Hindus Buddha (P, S). Awakened, thus the enlightened one who has attained nirvana; title for Gotama or Sakyamuni Buddha, the historical founder of Buddhism cakkavattin (P). Universal monarch Caodai. The Heavenly Way; a pan-denominational religious movement established in 1927 in southern Vietnam chau-atthika (Kh). Abbot chau-krum (Kh). Judge 318 : Glossary chayya (Kh). Identity card of a bikkhu. Until the early twentieth century, chayya denoted an ordination record inscribed on a sliver of palm leaf that was then rolled up into a ball, set with glue, and threaded onto prayer beads. chbap (Kh). law, norm, normative poem congaı̄ (Fr colonial usage in Indochina). Concubine corvée (Fr). Forced labor déclassé(e)s (Fr). Fallen ones; people who have dropped in social status Deva (Kh; S deva, a shining one, a god). God, gods devanagari (S town script of the gods). The character in which Sanskrit is usually written and printed deva-raja (Kh, S). God-king; can also mean god(s) of kings dhamma (P; S dharma; the Pali form is preferred by the Theravada school). “That which is right,” thus the ordained duties; in Buddhism, the eternal law of the universe as discovered and preached by Gotama Buddha; the theory and practice of the Buddhist doctrine Dhammapada (P). The most famous scripture in the Pali canon; the path or the way of the Buddha’s dhamma domboun (Kh). District, zone, area écoles d’application (Fr). Teacher training schools Exposition universelle (Fr). Universal exhibition; world’s fair Gotama (P; S Gautama). The Buddha, known to Theravadan Buddhists as Siddhatha Gotama (ca. 484–404 BCE) and to Mahayana Buddhists as Sākyamuni (sage of the Sakyans) L’imaginaire français (Fr). Literally, the French imagination. Used here to denote a broad repertoire of cultural constructs associated in popular imaginings with French national and imperial identity intérieur (Fr). Home, foyer; hinterland; interior Jataka (S). A nativity. Birth stories of the Buddha, collected in a work of the Theravada canon, which narrate the lives of Gotama Buddha before he attained enlightenment jiet (Kh; P jati; S jata, birth or rebirth). A group to which one belongs by birth; in the early- to mid-twentieth century, jiet came to denote race, nation, national kamma (Kh; P karma, S kharma, act). The conception of the quality of actions whose benign or malign motivations and dimensions determine the future condition of all sentient beings Kampuchea Kraom. Area of the lower Mekong delta in southern Vietnam that was once attached to the Khmer empire and was incorporated into Cochinchina kathen-kanthake. Book about the Kathen ceremony khemerah (Kh). Khmer khlum (Kh). Monastic dress Khmer Kraom (Kh). Ethnic Khmer living in Kampuchea Kraom Khmèrophile (Fr colonial). An afficionado of Cambodge khum (Kh). Commune kinnari (Kh). Mythical creature half-woman, half-bird [54.144.219.156] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 12:05 GMT) Glossary : 319 kluen (Kh). Self Kmae daem (Kh). Original Khmer (literally, Khmer before) krama...