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འཁོར་བཞི་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
’khor bzhi po
catuḥparṣad
- Term
- Fourfold assembly
- འཁོར་བཞི།
- ’khor bzhi
- catuḥparṣad
Male and female monastics and males and females holding lay vows.
- Fourfold assembly
- འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
- ’khor bzhi po
- catasra parṣada
Male and female monastics and males and females holding lay vows.
- Fourfold assembly
- འཁོར་བཞི།
- ’khor bzhi
- catuḥparṣad
Male and female lay followers, and male and female monastic followers.
- Fourfold assembly
- འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
- ’khor bzhi po
- catuḥparṣad
The fourfold assembly comprises monks, nuns, and female and male lay practitioners.
- Fourfold assembly
- འཁོར་བཞི།
- ’khor bzhi
- catuḥparṣad
- catuḥpariṣad
Monks, nuns, and male and female lay practitioners.
- Fourfold assembly
- འཁོར་རྣམ་པ་བཞི།
- ’khor rnam pa bzhi
- catuḥparṣad
The “fourfold assembly” consists of monks, nuns, and the male and female lay practitioners.
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- Fourfold assembly
- འཁོར་བཞི།
- འཁོར་རྣམ་པ་བཞི།
- ’khor bzhi
- ’khor rnam pa bzhi
- catuḥparṣad
The “fourfold assembly” consists of monks, nuns, and male and female lay practitioners.
- Four retinues
- འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
- ’khor bzhi po
- catasraḥ parṣadaḥ
- catuḥpariṣad
These are monks, nuns, and male and female followers of the householder code of conduct.
- Four retinues
- འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
- ’khor bzhi po
- catuḥparṣad
Monks, nuns, and male and female lay practitioners.
- Four retinues
- འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
- ’khor bzhi po
- —
Monks, nuns, male lay precept-holders, and female lay precept-holders.
- Four retinues
- འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
- ’khor bzhi po
- catuḥpariṣad
- catasraḥ pariṣadaḥ
- 四部弟子
Monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen.
- Four assemblies
- འཁོར་བཞི།
- ’khor bzhi
- catuḥpariṣad
This denotes the assemblies of fully ordained monks and nuns, along with laymen and laywomen.
- Four assemblies
- འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
- ’khor bzhi po
- catuḥpariṣad
The assemblies of monks (Skt. bhikṣu) and nuns (Skt. bhikṣuṇī), along with laymen (Skt. upāsaka) and laywomen (Skt. upāsikā).
- Four assemblies
- འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
- ’khor bzhi po
- catuḥparṣad
The assemblies of monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen.
- Fourfold assemblies
- འཁོར་བཞི།
- ’khor bzhi
- catuḥpariṣad
The assemblies of monks (Skt. bhikṣu) and nuns (Skt. bhikṣuṇī), along with laymen (Skt. upāsaka) and laywomen (Skt. upāsikā).
- Fourfold community
- འཁོར་བཞི།
- ’khor bzhi
- catuḥpariṣad
Monks, nuns, and male and female lay practitioners.
- Fourfold saṅgha
- འཁོར་བཞི་པོ།
- ’khor bzhi po
- catuḥparṣad
The fourfold saṅgha comprises monks, nuns, and female and male lay practitioners.