སྤྱོད་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྤྱོད་པ།
- spyod pa
- caraka
- caraṇa
- Term
- conduct
- སྤྱོད་པ།
- spyod pa
- caraṇa
Literally “wanderer,” refers to a religious mendicant; in Buddhist texts this term is often paired with parivrājaka in stock lists of followers of non-Buddhist ascetic traditions. In some cases, Tibetan sources will give this term as a translation of mīmāṃsaka, a member of the Mīmāṃsā school. However, this is likely a confusion with the similarly spelled dpyod pa ba, which correctly translates the Sanskrit meaning of mīmāṃsaka as “examiner” or “investigator.”