Definition of Bhiksu. Meaning of Bhiksu. Synonyms of Bhiksu

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Bhiksu. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Bhiksu and, of course, Bhiksu synonyms and on the right images related to the word Bhiksu.

Definition of Bhiksu

No result for Bhiksu. Showing similar results...

Meaning of Bhiksu from wikipedia

- 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...
- A bhikkhu (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, romanized: bhikṣu) is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. Male, and female monastics (bhikkhunī), are...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)...
- 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...
- 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;...
- 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...
- 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...
- Dharmaśāstra more commonly used terms like pravrajita, parivrajaka, parivrat, bhiksu, śramaṇa, and yati for ascetics. The lives of Rama and Krishna illustrate...