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ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཚང་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱད་པ་སྤྱོད་པ།
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱད་པ།
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད།
- ཚངས་སྤྱོད།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- tshang par spyod pa
- tshangs par spyad pa spyod pa
- tshangs spyod
- tshangs par spyad pa
- tshangs par spyod
- brahmacarya
- brahmacārya
- brahmacaryā
- brahmacharya
- brahmacaryaṃ car
- Term
- pure conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacharya
The practice of celibacy.
- pure conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
Can refer to celibacy in its narrowest sense; in a broader sense it refers to the conduct of those who have renounced worldly life to devote themselves to spiritual study and practice.
- pure conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
Lit. “brahma conduct,” in Buddhist traditions this term denotes the conduct of those who have renounced worldly life and entered the ordained sangha to devote themselves to spiritual study and practice.
- pure conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱད་པ་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyad pa spyod pa
- brahmacarya
The practice of celibacy or a chaste sexual behavior; this lifestyle also entails different spiritual practices.
- pure conduct
- ཚང་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshang par spyod pa
- brahmacārya
A celibate lifestyle focused on spiritual pursuits.
- holy life
- ཚངས་སྤྱོད།
- tshangs spyod
- brahmacarya
A euphemism for celibacy.
- holy life
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
Lit. “brahma conduct,” this denotes the conduct of those who have renounced worldly life and entered the ordained Buddhist saṅgha to devote themselves to spiritual study and practice.
- practice pure conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱད་པ།
- tshangs par spyad pa
- brahmacarya
- practice pure conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱད་པ།
- tshangs par spyad pa
- brahmacarya
- brahmacarya
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
See “religious life.”
- Brahman conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
Brahman is a Sanskrit term referring to what is highest (parama) and most important (pradhāna); the Nibandhana commentary explains brahman as meaning here nirvāṇa, and thus the brahman conduct is the “conduct toward brahman,” the conduct that leads to the highest liberation, i.e., nirvāṇa. This is explained as “the path without outflows,” which is the “truth of the path” among the four truths of the noble ones. Other explanations (found in the Pāli tradition) take “brahman conduct” to mean the “best conduct,” and also the “conduct of the best,” i.e., the buddhas. In some contexts, “brahman conduct” refers more specifically to celibacy, but the specific referents of this expression are many.
- celibacy
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
See “religious life.”
- chaste life
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
The observance of celibacy.
- code of conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
See “religious life.”
- live a celibate life
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད།
- tshangs par spyod
- brahmacaryaṃ car
- practice of chastity
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacaryā
- pure moral conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
- religious life
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
While in its narrowest sense this term refers to celibacy, Sonam Angdu explains its broader meaning: tshangs pa ’am bsil bar gyur pa’i don du na mya ngan ’das pa la bya, “Those actions that lead beyond sorrow to the goal of purity or peace” (Angdu 62).
Also rendered here as “code of conduct,” “celibacy” and “brahmacarya.”
- sanctified conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
In Buddhism, a term denoting a religious life grounded in renunciation and chastity. In the brahmanical traditions, this refers specifically to the stage in one’s youth dedicated to focused study of religious scripture and practice.
- spiritual life
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
- sublime conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
- 梵行
To maintain chaste conduct.