རྒན་ཞུགས། | Glossary of Terms
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རྒན་ཞུགས།
- rgan zhugs
- mahallaka
- mahalla
- Term
- latecomer
- རྒན་ཞུགས།
- rgan zhugs
- mahalla
Someone who is ordained late in their life.
- old-timer
- རྒན་ཞུགས།
- rgan zhugs
- mahallaka
This term refers to those who renounce the world late in life, generally after having had and raised children of their own. It is somewhat pejorative; it is telling, for instance, that such monastics are directly addressed as “old-timers” rather than as “venerable,” the customary address for ordained monks.