[palistudy] the term 'meditator'

Jon.

>This is slightly off-topic, perhaps, for which
>apologies.  Following on from our discussion recently
>about jhaayati, I have since come across the term 'the
>meditator' in a text.  I would be interested to know
>if there is a particular Pali term that this might be
>referring to.

I changed the subject line to make it on-topic. If you had given the
text reference I could have found the Pali word that was translated.
The first thought that comes to mind is to look for an agent-noun
derivative connected to jhaayati for which I knew that 'jhaayii' was
one. I haven't checked all the possibilities but I found another one
'jhaayaka' in the Buddha's interesting explanation of how this term
came about (see D iii 94 Aganna Sutta). 'Jhaayii' is used many times
in the Jhanasamyutta (SN XXXIV). I don't know if the insight-worker
(vipassaka) can be included in this term but that could be found out
by doing some research. In the Mahacunda Sutta (AN VI.46) 'jhaayii'
(meditators) are set in opposition to another group called
'dhammayogaa' which I'm not sure how to translate as this is the only
sutta where this term is met with. The PTS transl. has
'dhamma-zealots' and the commentary says it's a name for
'dhammakathikaa' (dhamma-explainers). Anyway, there is a situation
where each side disrespect the other side, but Mahacunda explains how
each side should, instead, learn to respect each other.

Best wishes,
Jim