Explanation of the Username
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Nāmarūpa is an ancient Pali term, the language used in the earliest Buddhist texts.
It is a compound of nāma (literally "name") referring to the mental factors of consciousness, and rūpa (literally "form") referring to the material form [1]. Taken together, nāmarūpa refers to psychophysical unit of the person.
I chose this for my username because the first couple of names I thought of were already in use, and so I took a random flip through my Buddhist Psychology, and the term nāmarūpa caught my eye.
- ^ Bodhi, Bhikkhu and Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli (1995). The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya. Boston: Wisdom Publications.