ཁྱིམ་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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ཁྱིམ་ན་གནས་པ།
- ཁྱིམ་པ།
- khyim pa
- khyim na gnas pa
- gṛhastha
- gṛhin
- Term
- householder
- ཁྱིམ་པ།
- ཁྱིམ་ན་གནས་པ།
- khyim pa
- khyim na gnas pa
- gṛhin
- householder
- ཁྱིམ་པ།
- khyim pa
- gṛhastha
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.