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དགེ་བསྙེན་མ། | Glossary of Terms
དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
dge bsnyen ma
upāsikā
- Term
- Upāsikā
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
A female who has taken the layperson’s vows.
- Upāsikā
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
Lay female devotees who uphold the five precepts.
- Upāsikā
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
A female who has taken the layperson’s vows.
- Upāsikā
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
A female who has taken the layperson’s vows.
- Upāsikā
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
female lay practitioner
- Upāsikā
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
Laywoman.
- Laywoman
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
An unordained female practitioner who observes the five vows not to kill, lie, steal, be intoxicated, or commit sexual misconduct.
- Laywoman
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
Householders with definite vows that set them off from the ordinary householder.
- Laywoman
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsika
Female lay devotees who have taken the five precepts.
- Laywoman
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
Laywoman who holds householder’s vows.
- Laywoman
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
- Laywomen
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
- 優婆夷
A female lay devotee.
- Laywomen
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā
Unordained female practitioners who observe the five vows: not to kill, lie, steal, be intoxicated, or commit sexual misconduct.
- Female lay vow holder
- དགེ་བསྙེན་མ།
- dge bsnyen ma
- upāsikā