84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཁྱིམ་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཁྱིམ་ན་གནས་པ།

  • ཁྱིམ་པ།
  • khyim pa
  • khyim na gnas pa
  • gṛhastha
  • gṛhin
  • Term
Publications: 2
  • householder
  • ཁྱིམ་པ།
  • ཁྱིམ་ན་གནས་པ།
  • khyim pa
  • khyim na gnas pa
  • gṛhin
  • householder
  • ཁྱིམ་པ།
  • khyim pa
  • gṛhastha
Definition in this text:

Householders are “stay-at-home” (gṛhastha) Buddhist practitioners and meditators who have not completely given up worldly life, in contrast to those who have “gone forth” (pravrajita), i.e., originally itinerant, celibate ascetics, and monks and nuns.

1 Related glossary entries:

ཁྱིམ་བདག

  • gṛhapati
  • gṛhādhipa
  • householder