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ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ། | Glossary of Terms
ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
tshangs par spyod pa
brahmacarya
- 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་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 Sangha 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
- 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.
- Chaste life
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacarya
The observance of celibacy.
- Practice of chastity
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- brahmacaryā
- Pure moral conduct
- ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- tshangs par spyod pa
- 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.