རལ་པ་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms
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རལ་པ་ཅན།
- ral pa can
- jaṭila
- jaṭī
- Term
- ascetic with matted hair
- རལ་པ་ཅན།
- ral pa can
- jaṭila
A non-Buddhist ascetic identifiable by the wearing of locks of matted hair.
- dreadlocked ascetic
- རལ་པ་ཅན།
- ral pa can
- jaṭī
A religious sect of men distinguished by their long, clotted hair, to which the Buddha’s disciple Venerable Uruvilvā Kāśyapa had belonged. The Buddha ordained a thousand of them in Uruvilvā.