84000 Glossary of Terms
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བསྙེན་པ་རྫོགས་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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བསྙེན་པ་རྫོགས་པ།
- བསྙེན་པར་རྫོགས་པ།
- རྫོགས་པར་བསྙེན་པ།
- bsnyen pa rdzogs pa
- bsnyen par rdzogs pa
- rdzogs par bsnyen pa
- upasampadā
- upasaṃpadā
- upasampanna
- Term
Publications: 4
Translation by Bruno Galasek-Hul
- full ordination
- བསྙེན་པ་རྫོགས་པ།
- bsnyen pa rdzogs pa
- upasampadā
The ceremony of full or higher ordination by which a novice (śrāmaṇera) or a female postulant (śikṣamāṇā) is confirmed as a fully ordained member of the order of nuns or monks (see Buswell and Lopez 2014, s.v. “upasaṃpadā”).
Translation by Dr. Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö
- full ordination
- བསྙེན་པར་རྫོགས་པ།
- bsnyen par rdzogs pa
- upasaṃpadā
The formal term for granting orders and confirming a candidate as a bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī.
Translation by Jordi Roig
- fully ordained
- རྫོགས་པར་བསྙེན་པ།
- བསྙེན་པར་རྫོགས་པ།
- rdzogs par bsnyen pa
- bsnyen par rdzogs pa
- upasampanna
- upasampadā
Someone fully ordained.
Translation by Robert Miller
- ordain
- བསྙེན་པར་རྫོགས་པ།
- bsnyen par rdzogs pa
- upasaṃpadā
The formal term for granting orders and confirming a candidate as a monk.