84000 Glossary of Terms
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གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་། | Glossary of Terms
གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།
gtsug lag khang
vihāra
- Term
Publications: 7
Translation by Robert Miller
- Monastery
- གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།
- gtsug lag khang
- vihāra
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- Monastery
- གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།
- gtsug lag khang
- vihāra
Originally a place where the wandering “viharin” monks would stay during the monsoon only, they later developed into permanent domiciles for monks.
Translation by Ryan Conlon
- Monastery
- གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།
- gtsug lag khang
- vihāra
A dwelling place of monks.
Translation by Dr. Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö
- Monastery
- གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།
- gtsug lag khang
- vihāra
A term denoting a permanent structure built to house members of the monastic saṅgha
Translation by Robert Miller
- Temple
- གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།
- gtsug lag khang
- vihāra
An acceptable form of shelter for a monk, as identified in the Four Supports section of the ordination ritual.
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- Temple
- གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།
- gtsug lag khang
- vihāra
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- Vihāra
- གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་།
- gtsug lag khang
- vihāra
Either a temple or monastery. In Buddhism it was originally a residence used during the monsoon for the otherwise wandering bhikṣus.