84000 Glossary of Terms

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མྱོས་པར་འགྱུར་བའི་ཆང་གི་བཏུང་བ། | Glossary of Terms

  • མྱོས་པར་འགྱུར་བའི་ཆང་གི་བཏུང་བ།

  • myos par ’gyur ba’i chang gi btung ba
  • madyapāna
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  • drinking alcohol that leads to intoxication
  • མྱོས་པར་འགྱུར་བའི་ཆང་གི་བཏུང་བ།
  • myos par ’gyur ba’i chang gi btung ba
  • madyapāna AO
Pali:
  • majjapāna
Definition in this text:

Fifth of the negative actions to be renounced under the five precepts. The Pali majja and Sanskrit madya simply mean “intoxicating [beverage].” The Tibetan chang likewise refers generally to all alcoholic drinks (fermented and distilled). The entire phrase could be interpreted as a “drinking binge” or “carousal.” In ancient South Asia, a fermented alcoholic drink called surā was known and produced for centuries. Surā was mostly made from grain, but other alcoholic drinks were made using fruit and honey (see McHugh 2021).