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རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ། | Glossary of Terms
རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ།
rigs kyi bu
kulaputra
- Term
Indian term of address and endearment used toward a student. While this is usually a characteristic pertaining to brahmins (i.e., born in the brahmin caste to seven-generation brahmin parents), the Buddha redefined noble birth as determined by an individual’s ethical conduct and integrity. Thus, someone who enters the Buddha’s Saṅgha is called a “son or daughter of noble family” and is in this sense “good” or “noble” and considered born again (dvija, or “twice born”). In Mahāyāna sūtras, it can also carry the sense of follower of the bodhisattva path.
- Faithful man of a good family
- རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rigs kyi bu
- kulaputra
- Son of enlightened heritage
- རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rigs kyi bu
- kulaputra
A term of endearment, used by a teacher when addressing a male follower of the bodhisattva path.
- Son of good family
- རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rigs kyi bu
- kulaputra
While this is usually a characteristic pertaining to Brahmins (i.e., born in the Brahmin caste to seven-generation Brahmin parents), the Buddha redefined noble birth as determined by an individual’s ethical conduct and integrity. Thus, someone who enters the Buddha’s Saṅgha is called a “son or daughter of noble family” and is in this sense “good” or “noble” and considered born again (dvija, or “twice born”).
- Son of noble family
- རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ།
- rigs kyi bu
- kulaputra
Indian term of address used toward a male student of the bodhisattva path. While this is usually a characteristic pertaining to brahmins (i.e., born in the brahmin caste to seven-generation brahmin parents), the Buddha redefined noble birth as determined by an individual’s ethical conduct and integrity. Thus, someone who enters the Buddha’s Saṅgha is called a “son or daughter of noble family” and is in this sense “good” or “noble” and considered born again (dvija, or “twice born”).