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གཎ་ཌཱི། | Glossary of Terms
གཎ་ཌཱི།
gaN DI
gaṇḍī
- Term
- Gaṇḍī
- གཎ་ཌཱི།
- gaN DI
- gaṇḍī
A wooden gong used to summon monks.
- Gaṇḍī
- གཎྜཱི།
- gaN+DI
- gaṇḍī
- gaṇḍi
An elongated, shoulder-held wooden bar (or beam) struck with a wooden striker to call the saṅgha community to assembly.
- Gaṇḍī
- གཎྜི།
- gaN+Di
- gaṇḍī
A percussion instrument made from a wooden beam cut from specific trees to particular proportions, it has been widely used in Buddhist monasteries as an instrument for summoning monks to assembly.
- Gaṇḍī
- གཎ་ཌཱི།
- gaN DI
- gaṇḍī
An elongated, shoulder-held wooden bar (or beam) struck with a wooden stick to call the monastic community to assembly.
- Dharmagaṇḍī
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་གཎ་དཱི།
- chos kyi gaN dI
- dharmagaṇḍī
A gong, or a wooden block or beam, sounded to call the community together for a teaching or other assembly.
- Gaṇḍī beam
- གཎྜྰི།
- གཎ་ཌྰི།
- gaN+D+’i
- gaN D+’i
- gaṇḍī
An elongated, shoulder-held wooden bar (or beam) struck with a wooden striker to call the saṅgha community to assembly.