84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྡུལ་ཟན། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྔུལ་ཟན།

  • རྡུལ་ཟན།
  • rdul zan
  • rngul zan
  • āsevakā
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • monastic cloak
  • རྡུལ་ཟན།
  • རྔུལ་ཟན།
  • rdul zan
  • rngul zan
  • āsevakā
Definition in this text:

This appears to be another name for the cloak called saṃkakṣikā. It is listed as one of the extra two robes for a bhikṣuni, which covers the body, but in the Sarvāstivādavinaya, it is mentioned only twice, and both times in relation to bhikṣus. The Buddha says bhikṣus should cover their bodies with this cloak so their chest is not visible when they go on alms rounds in villages. The two Tibetan spelling variants mean either “sweat robe” or “dust robe.”

1 Related glossary entries:

རྔུལ་གཟན།

  • saṃkakṣikā
  • undershirt