དྲུག་སྡེ། | Glossary of Terms
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དྲུག་སྡེ།
- དྲུག་སྡེའི་དགེ་སློང་དག
- drug sde
- drug sde’i dge slong dag
- ṣaḍvargika
- ṣadvargikā bhikṣavaḥ
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- Group of Six monks
- དྲུག་སྡེའི་དགེ་སློང་དག
- drug sde’i dge slong dag
- ṣadvargikā bhikṣavaḥ
Six ill-behaved monks whose conduct often causes the Buddha’s establishment of new rules: Nanda, Upananda, Punarvasu, Chanda, Aśvaka, and Udāyin.
- group of six monks
- དྲུག་སྡེ།
- drug sde
- ṣaḍvargika
A group of six monks who are portrayed in Vinaya texts as constantly pushing the limits of the disciplinary rules established for the monastic community.
- Band of Six
- དྲུག་སྡེ།
- drug sde
- ṣaḍvargika
A certain band of monks of the Buddha’s order who appear throughout the vinaya literature as examples of those who break the monastic rules. In Pāli their names are given as Assaji, Punabbasu, Panduka, Lohitaka, Mettiya, and Bhummaja. The Hundred Deeds contains one story in which they trick the nun Sthūlanandā into thinking that they can help her attain magical powers.