• ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ།
  • ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
  • པ་རི་པ་ར་ཙ་ཀ
  • kun tu rgyu
  • kun tu rgyu ba
  • pa ri pa ra tsa ka
  • parivrājaka
  • Term
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A non-Buddhist religious mendicant who literally “roams around.” Historically, they wandered in India from ancient times, including the time of the Buddha, and held a variety of beliefs, engaging with one another in debate on a range of topics. Some of their metaphysical views are presented in the early Buddhist discourses of the Pali Canon. They included women in their number.