རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཁྱིམ་ནས་མངོན་པར་བྱུང་།
- མངོན་པར་བྱུང་།
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་།
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ།
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་།
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- རབ་བྱུང་།
- rab tu byung ba
- rab tu ’byung
- khyim nas mngon par byung
- rab tu ’byung ba
- rab byung
- rab tu byung
- mngon par byung
- pravrajita
- pravrajyā
- pra√vṛt
- pra √vṛt
- pravrajati
- pravjrajita
- pravrajate
- pra√vraj
- pra + √vraj
- Term
The Sanskrit pravrajyā literally means “going 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 a novice monk (śrāmaṇera; dge tshul) or nun (śrāmaṇerikā; dge tshul ma), this being a first stage leading to full ordination.
- go forth
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- rab tu ’byung ba
- pravrajati
To leave the life of a householder and embrace the life of a wandering, renunciant follower of the Buddha.
- go forth
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- rab tu ’byung ba
- pravrajati
- pravrajyā
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.
- go forth
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- rab tu ’byung ba
- pravrajyā
To renounce settled, household life (“going forth from home to homelessness”) to become a monk or wandering spiritual practitioner.
- go forth
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- rab tu ’byung ba
- pra + √vraj
- go forth
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ།
- rab tu byung ba
- pravrajyā
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.
- go forth
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- rab tu ’byung ba
- pravrajati
- pravrajyā
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.
- going forth
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- rab tu ’byung ba
- pravrajyā
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.
- going forth
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- rab tu ’byung ba
- pravrajati
- pravrajyā
Leaving the life of a householder and embracing the life of a wandering, renunciant follower of the Buddha.
- going forth
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ།
- rab tu byung ba
- pravrajita
- pravrajyā
The Tibetan term can refer to a religious mendicant or monk or to the life of such a mendicant or monk.
- going forth
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ།
- rab tu byung ba
- pravrajita
- pravrajyā
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.
- renunciant
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- rab tu ’byung ba
- pravrajita
- become a renunciant
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་།
- རབ་བྱུང་།
- མངོན་པར་བྱུང་།
- rab tu byung
- rab byung
- mngon par byung
- pra√vraj AS
- Become a renunciant
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་།
- rab tu byung
- pravrajate
Refers to one who has left the life of a householder and embraced the life of a wandering, renunciate follower of the Buddha.
- go forth to homelessness
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་།
- ཁྱིམ་ནས་མངོན་པར་བྱུང་།
- rab tu ’byung
- khyim nas mngon par byung
- pra √vṛt
- pravrajyā
- go forth to homelessness
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་།
- ཁྱིམ་ནས་མངོན་པར་བྱུང་།
- rab tu ’byung
- khyim nas mngon par byung
- pra√vṛt
- pravrajyā
- adopt the life of a mendicant
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ།
- rab tu byung ba
- pravrajyā
See “monastic renunciation.”
- go forth into homelessness
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་།
- rab tu ’byung
- pravrajati
- going forth as renunciants
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ།
- rab tu byung ba
- pravrajyā
- monastic
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ།
- rab tu byung ba
- pravrajita
A person who has abandoned lay life and taken ordination as a Buddhist monastic.
- monastic renunciation
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ།
- rab tu byung ba
- pravrajyā
The act of “going forth from household life into homelessness,” i.e., becoming a (mendicant) Buddhist monk.
- novitiate
- རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་བ།
- rab tu ’byung ba
- pravrajyā
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).
- renunciate
- རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་བ།
- rab tu byung ba
- pravrajita
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.