84000 Glossary of Terms
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མི་ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ། | Glossary of Terms
མི་ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
mi tshangs par spyod pa
abrahmacarya
- Term
Publications: 2
Translation by Jampa Tenzin · Ngawang Tenzin · Christian Bernert · Julia C. Stenzel
- Impure conduct
- མི་ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- mi tshangs par spyod pa
- abrahmacarya
This term is the opposite of brahmacarya, “pure conduct” or “holy life,” which denotes the chaste life of those who have renounced the world. The term abrahmacarya therefore refers to sexual conduct, which is regarded as a root downfall for monastics on the śrāvaka path.
Translation by Bruno Galasek-Hul
- Leading an unchaste life
- མི་ཚངས་པར་སྤྱོད་པ།
- mi tshangs par spyod pa
- abrahmacarya
Here, the third of the ten nonvirtuous actions.