རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ། | Glossary of Terms

To leave the life of a householder and embrace the life of a wandering, renunciant follower of the Buddha.

To leave the life of a householder and embrace the life of a renunciant, by taking vows as a novice, monk, or nun at the vinaya or pratimokṣa level of Buddhist practice.

To renounce settled, household life (“going forth from home to homelessness”) to become a monk or wandering spiritual practitioner.

To renounce settled, household life (“going forth from home into homelessness”) to become a monk or nun, or a wandering spiritual practitioner.

The Sanskrit pravrajyā literally means “to go forth,” with the sense of leaving the life of a householder and embracing the life of a renunciant. When the term is applied more technically, it refers to the act of becoming novice monk (śrāmaṇera; dge tshul) or nun (śrāmaṇerikā; dge tshul ma), this being a first stage leading to full ordination as a fully ordained monk or nun.

To leave the life of a householder and embrace the life of a renunciant. In some passages in this text, especially when followed by the term bsnyen par rdzogs pa, this term has been amplified for clarity as “go forth as a novice,” this being a first stage leading to full ordination as a bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī.

The term used for renunciation and the taking of vows as a novice, monk, or nun at the vinaya or pratimokṣa level of Buddhist practice.

Leaving the life of a householder and embracing the life of a wandering, renunciant follower of the Buddha.

The Tibetan term can refer to a religious mendicant or monk or to the life of such a mendicant or monk.

To go forth from the home into homelessness, or to renounce the worldly life of a lay person, in order to become a monk or nun.

Refers to one who has left the life of a householder and embraced the life of a wandering, renunciate follower of the Buddha.

See “monastic renunciation.”

A person who has abandoned lay life and taken ordination as a Buddhist monastic.

The act of “going forth from household life into homelessness,” i.e., becoming a (mendicant) Buddhist monk.

The so-called lower ordination to become a novice in the ordained Buddhist saṅgha; during the novitiate, aspirants observe ten precepts (for Theravādins and others) or thirty-six precepts (for Mūlasarvāstivādins) for a certain time before becoming fully ordained (Skt. upasampadā).

The Tibetan literally means “to go forth” or “one who has gone forth.” Refers to who one has renounce settled, household life (“gone forth from home to homelessness”) to become a monk or wandering spiritual practitioner.