84000 Glossary of Terms

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སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སོ་སོ་ཐར་པ།

  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • སོར་ཐར།
  • so sor thar pa
  • sor thar
  • so so thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
  • Term
Publications: 13
Translation by Fumi Yao
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

The collection of monastic rules, which is supposed to be recited at the formal meeting of monastics every fortnight.

Translation by Klaus-Dieter Mathes · Julika Weber · Katrin Querl · Konstantin Brockhausen · Susanne Fleischmann · Daniel Gratzer · Georgi Krastev · Jamie Gordon Creek
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • སོར་ཐར།
  • so sor thar pa
  • sor thar
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

The rules of conduct that lead to liberation.

Translation by Ulrich Pagel
  • Prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

The codes of precepts for monks and nuns.

Translation by Gregory Forgues
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

Prātimokṣa” is the name given to the code of conduct binding on monks and nuns. The term can be used to refer both to the disciplinary rules themselves and to the texts from the Vinaya that contain them. There are multiple recensions of the Prātimokṣa, each transmitted by a different monastic fraternity in ancient and medieval India. Three remain living traditions, one of them the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya of Tibetan Buddhism. Though the numbers of rules vary across the different recensions, they are all organized according to the same principles and with the same disciplinary categories. It is customary for monastics to recite the Prātimokṣa Sūtra fortnightly. According to some Mahāyana sūtras, a separate set of prātimokṣa rules exists for bodhisattvas, which are based on bodhisattva conduct as taught in that vehicle.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

Prātimokṣa” is the name given to the code of conduct binding on monks and nuns. The term can be used to refer both to the disciplinary rules themselves and to the texts from the Vinaya that contain them. There are multiple recensions of the Prātimokṣa, each transmitted by a different monastic fraternity in ancient and medieval India. Three remain living traditions, one of them the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya of Tibetan Buddhism. Though the numbers of rules vary across the different recensions, they are all organized according to the same principles and with the same disciplinary categories. It is customary for monastics to recite the Prātimokṣa Sūtra fortnightly.

Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

Prātimokṣa” is the name given to the code of conduct binding on monks and nuns. The term can be used to refer both to the disciplinary rules themselves and to the texts from the Vinaya that contain them. There are multiple recensions of the Prātimokṣa, each transmitted by a different monastic fraternity in ancient and medieval India. Three remain living traditions, one of them the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya of Tibetan Buddhism. Though the numbers of rules vary across the different recensions, they are all organized according to the same principles and with the same disciplinary categories. It is customary for monastics to recite the Prātimokṣa Sūtra fortnightly. According to some Mahāyana sūtras, a separate set of prātimokṣa rules exists for bodhisattvas, which are based on bodhisattva conduct as taught in that vehicle.

Translation by Adam T. Miller
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

The regulations and rules that constitute Buddhist discipline. The number and scope of the vows differs depending on one’s status (whether lay, novice monastic, or full monastic) and whether one is a monk or a nun.

Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart · Nika Jovic
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

“Prātimokṣa” is the name given to the code of conduct binding on monks and nuns. The term can be used to refer both to the disciplinary rules themselves and to the texts from the Vinaya that contain them. There are multiple recensions of the Prātimokṣa, each transmitted by a different monastic fraternity in ancient and medieval India. Three remain living traditions, one of them the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya of Tibetan Buddhism. Though the numbers of rules vary across the different recensions, they are all organized according to the same principles and with the same disciplinary categories. It is customary for monastics to recite the Prātimokṣa Sūtra fortnightly. According to some Mahāyāna sūtras, a separate set of prātimokṣa rules exists for bodhisattvas, which are based on bodhisattva conduct as taught in that vehicle.

Translation by Thomas Doctor
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

Prātimokṣa” is the name given to the code of conduct binding on monks and nuns. The term can be used to refer both to the disciplinary rules themselves and to the texts from the Vinaya that contain them. There are multiple recensions of the Prātimokṣa, each transmitted by a different monastic fraternity in ancient and medieval India. Three remain living traditions, one of them the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya of Tibetan Buddhism. Though the numbers of rules vary across the different recensions, they are all organized according to the same principles and with the same disciplinary categories. It is customary for monastics to recite the Prātimokṣa Sūtra fortnightly.

Translation by Jampa Tenzin · Ngawang Tenzin · Christian Bernert · Julia C. Stenzel
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

Prātimokṣa” is the name given to the code of conduct binding on monks and nuns. The term can be used to refer both to the disciplinary rules themselves and to the texts from the Vinaya that contain them. There are multiple recensions of the Prātimokṣa, each transmitted by a different monastic fraternity in ancient and medieval India. Three remain living traditions, one of them the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya of Tibetan Buddhism. Though the numbers of rules vary across the different recensions, they are all organized according to the same principles and with the same disciplinary categories. It is customary for monastics to recite the Prātimokṣa Sūtra fortnightly.

Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · Timothy Hinkle · Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

Prātimokṣa” is the name given to the code of conduct binding on monks and nuns. The term can be used to refer both to the disciplinary rules themselves and to the texts from the Vinaya that contain them. There are multiple recensions of the Prātimokṣa, each transmitted by a different monastic fraternity in ancient and medieval India. Three remain living traditions, one of them the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya of Tibetan Buddhism. Though the numbers of rules vary across the different recensions, they are all organized according to the same principles and with the same disciplinary categories. It is customary for monastics to recite the Prātimokṣa Sūtra fortnightly.

Translation by James Gentry
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ།
  • so sor thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

Prātimokṣa” is the name given to the code of conduct binding on monks and nuns. The term can be used to refer both to the disciplinary rules themselves and to the texts from the Vinaya that contain them.

Translation by Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Erin Sperry
  • prātimokṣa
  • སོ་སོ་ཐར་པ།
  • so so thar pa
  • prātimokṣa
Definition in this text:

The vows and regulations that constitute Buddhist discipline. The number and scope of the vows differ depending on one’s status (lay, novice monastic, or full monastic) and whether one is female or male.