84000 Glossary of Terms

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རིགས་ཀྱི་བུའམ་རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་མོ། | Glossary of Terms

  • རིགས་ཀྱི་བུའམ་རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་མོ།

  • rigs kyi bu’am rigs kyi bu mo
  • kulaputro vā kuladuhitā
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • son or daughter of good family
  • རིགས་ཀྱི་བུའམ་རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་མོ།
  • rigs kyi bu’am rigs kyi bu mo
  • kulaputro vā kuladuhitā
Definition in this text:

While this is usually a term pertaining to the brahmin, kṣatriya, or other “upper castes,” the Buddha redefined noble birth as determined by an individual’s ethical conduct and integrity. Thus, someone who enters the Buddha’s Saṅgha is called a “son or daughter of noble family.”

1 Related glossary entries:

རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ།

  • kulaputra
  • faithful man of a good family
  • noble son
  • son of good family
  • son of noble family