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དགེ་སློང་མ། | Glossary of Terms
དགེ་སློང་མ།
dge slong ma
bhikṣuṇī
- Term
- Nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
A fully ordained nun.
- Nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
A fully ordained female practitioner.
- Nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
- Nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
Fully ordained Buddhist nun.
- Nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
A fully ordained female practitioner.
- Nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
This term refers specifically to a nun who has received full ordination, the highest level of ordination available in the Buddhist tradition, observing 364 Vinaya vows.
- Nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
A fully ordained nun. Also rendered here as “bhikṣuṇī.”
- Nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
Fully ordained nun. See also “monk.”
- Bhikṣuṇī
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
A fully ordained nun.
- Bhikṣuṇī
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
Fully ordained buddhist nun.
- Bhikṣuṇī
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
Fully ordained Buddhist nun.
- Bhikṣuṇī
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
A fully ordained nun of the Buddhist Saṅgha.
- Bhikṣuṇī
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
A female renunciant.
- Bhikṣuṇī
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
A fully ordained nun. Also rendered here simply as “nun.”
- Fully ordained nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
A fully ordained female practitioner observing 364 Vinaya vows.
- Fully ordained nun
- དགེ་སློང་མ།
- dge slong ma
- bhikṣuṇī
- 比丘尼
A fully ordained Buddhist nun.