Lila or LILA may refer to:

People

Lila (given name) Lila is a feminine given name. People with the given name Lila * Lila Avilés (born 1982), Mexican film director, screenwriter, actress and producer * Lila Cockrell (1922–2019), American politician * Lila Downs (born 1968), Mexican singer * ...

, a female given name (including a list of people with the name)

Arts and entertainment

* ''Lila'' (album), debut album by American country music singer Lila McCann * ''Lila'' (movie), a 1968 sexploitation film * The Meaning of Lila, a comic strip written by John Forgetta and L. A. Rose * "Lila", an abstract work of art by Fernando De Szyszlo

Literature

* ''Lila'' (Robinson novel), a novel by Marilynne Robinson *'' Lila: An Inquiry into Morals'', a book by Robert Pirsig

Places

* Lila, Bohol, a municipality in the Philippines * Lila, Croatia, a village near

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, Croatia

Religion

Lila (Hinduism) Lila ( ') or leela () can be loosely translated as "divine play". The concept of lila asserts that creation, instead of being an objective for achieving any purpose, is rather an outcome of the playful nature of the divine. As the divine is perfect ...

, an Indic concept of the universe as a playground of the divine * Leela attitude, an attitude of walking Buddha in Thai art

Other uses

* Lila, a name misunderstood to be a nickname of the trans-Neptunian object

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Lycée International de Los Angeles The International School of Los Angeles (, LILA) is a private, international school for students aged 4 to 18. The International School of Los Angeles holds accreditation by the French Ministry of Education, the Western Association of Schools an ...

, a private French school in Los Angeles *

Lila (cannon) Lela or lila is a type of Malay cannon, used widely in the Nusantara archipelago. They are similar to a lantaka but longer and had larger bore. Lela can be configured as swivel gun, fixed gun, or mounted in a gun carriage. It is the equivalent ...

, a type of Malay cannon *'' Lilavati'', mathematical treatise by 12th-century Indian mathematician Bhaskara II, named after his daughter **

Leelavati Award The Leelavati Award is an award for outstanding contribution to public outreach in mathematics. It is named after the 12th-century mathematical treatise " Lilavati" devoted to arithmetic, algebra, and the decimal system written by the Indian mathema ...

, award for Indian women mathematicians, named after the treatise **''

Lilavati's Daughters ''Lilavati's Daughters'' is a collection of nearly one hundred biographical essays on women scientists of India. Published by the Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore) in 2008, the book was edited by Rohini Godbole and Ram Ramaswamy. Review ...

'', biographical dictionary of Indian women scientists *''

Līlāvatīsāra Līlāvatīsāra (epitome of Līlāvatī) is a poem composed by Jinaratnasuri. Jinaratnasuri belonged to Kharatara Gaccha of the Śvetāmbara sect of Jainism. It tells the stories of the lives of a group of souls as they pass through a series o ...