- Look up
bhiksu or
bhikkhu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Bhiksu can
refer to:
Bhikṣu,
Sanskrit for Bhikkhu, a
Buddhist monk A monk who
accepted Sannyasa...
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Bhiksu University of Sri
Lanka was
founded in 1996 and is
located in
Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka.
Bodagama Chandima (born 1957),
Buddhist monk
Bhiksu University...
- A
bhikkhu (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, romanized:
bhikṣu) is an
ordained male in
Buddhist monasticism. Male, and
female monastics (bhikkhunī), are...
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usually called Varṇatita or "beyond all varṇas" in
Vedantic works. The
bhiksu is
advised to not
bother about the
caste of the
family from
which he begs...
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orders the
chapters of the
Gandhari Dharmapada as follows: I. Brāhmaṇa; II.
Bhikṣu; III. Tṛṣṇā; IV. Pāpa; V. Arhant; VI. Mārga; VII. Apramāda; VIII. Citta;...
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ordination lineage from the
early schools of Buddhism, and
therefore each
bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī
adhering to the Mahāyāna
formally belonged to one of the early...
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order to
ordain bhikṣuṇīs,
there must be
quorums of both bhikṣuṇīs and
bhikṣus;
without both, a
woman cannot be
ordained as a nun (Tibetan: དགེ་སློང་མ་...
- renunciation.
Another one is the
giving up of lay life and
becoming a
monastic (
bhiksu or bhiksuni).
Practicing celibacy (whether for life as a monk, or temporarily)...
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Asian Buddhist sects, a man
under the age of 20
cannot be
ordained as a
bhikṣu (monk) but can be
ordained as a sāmaṇera. Sāmaṇeras (and sāmaṇerīs – the...
- unhappy, not
thinking that the
bhikṣu was
priced correctly at 100,000 gold pieces. The king, who knew the
worth of
bhiksu,
ordered that
seven horses be...
