Is there a separate word for pain (in Pali) which the Buddha used to differentiate pain from suffering?
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"Dukkha" is used for both "pain" and "suffering".
The feeling of pain is called "dukkha vedana".
The experience of suffering is called "dukkha of attachment" ("upadana dukkha").
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The Buddha taught 3 types of dukkha:
- Dukkha-dukkhata, the actual feeling of physical or mental unpleasantness.
- Sankhara-dukkhata, the inherent unpleasantness of the formations.
- Viparinama-dukkhata, the inherent unpleasantness of change.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn45/sn45.165.wlsh.html
Dukkha is principally defined as the aggregates:
Natthi khandhasamā dukkhā no pain like the aggregates https://nanda.online-dhamma.net/tipitaka/sutta/khuddaka/dhammapada/dhp-contrast-reading/dhp-contrast-reading-en-chap15/
They are also called aggregates of clinging [upadana] because they are what is being clung to [upadana] as one focuses on the allure of the aggregates which are the 5 classes of past, present & future phenomena (form, feeling, perception, formation & consciousness).
Craving is a requisite for Upadana which is in turn a requisite condition for becoming. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn12/sn12.052.than.html
An Arahant does not cling but is not to be said to be without the aggregates. Even tho his mind is made straight, his five sense faculties remain unimpaired, by which he still experiences what is agreeable and disagreeable and feels pleasure and pain.
To differentiate between physical and mental pain one can use 'kayika dukkha vedana' and 'cetasika dukkha vedana' or more specifically ie domanassa which is sadness or grief and thus a type of cetasika [mental] dukkha.
The Sutta mentioned in the op uses kayika and cetasika to differentiate between mental and physical pain.
They experience two feelings: So dve vedanā vedayati— physical and mental. kāyikañca, cetasikañca https://suttacentral.net/sn36.6/en/sujato
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