- 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
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.
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
A general term for homeless religious mendicants who literally “roam around”; in Buddhist usage the term refers to non-Buddhist peripatetic ascetics, including Jains and others.
- parivrājaka
- པ་རི་པ་ར་ཙ་ཀ
- pa ri pa ra tsa ka
- parivrājaka
- 波利婆羅遮伽
A generic designation for the group of non-Buddhist mendicants of various religious outlooks, who lived as wandering spiritual seekers in India during the time of the Buddha.
A specific order of mendicants, or a general term for homeless religious mendicants who, literally, “roam around.” In Buddhist usage the term can refer to non-Buddhist peripatetic ascetics including Jains and others.
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
A non-Buddhist religious practitioner who “roams around.”
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
An umbrella term for the class of wandering religious ascetics of diverse religious persuasions that were common at the time of the Buddha.
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ།
- kun tu rgyu ba
- parivrājaka
A religious mendicant; in Buddhist texts this is often paired with caraka in stock lists of followers of non-Buddhist ascetic traditions.
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
A general term for homeless religious mendicants who, literally, “roam around”; in Buddhist usage the term refers to non-Buddhist peripatetic ascetics including Jains and others.
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
Evidently a general term for homeless religious mendicants who, literally, “roam around”; in Buddhist usage the term refers to non-Buddhist peripatetic ascetics including Jains and others.
- Parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ།
- kun tu rgyu ba
- parivrājaka
A class of traveling ascetics (both male and female) who held a variety of differing non-Buddhist views.
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
“Wandering mendicant,” parivrājaka (Sanskrit, wanderer; Pāli, paribbājaka). Refers to a class of Indian religious mendicants holding a variety of beliefs who wandered in India from ancient times, including during the time of the Buddha. These peripatetic ascetics, who included women in their number, engaged with one another in debate on a range of topics. Some of their metaphysical views are presented in the early Buddhist discourses of the Pāli Canon.
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
A non-Buddhist religious mendicant, lit. who “roams around.”
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
A non-Buddhist religious practitioner who has no fixed residence.
- parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
A specific order of mendicants, or a general term for homeless religious mendicants who, literally, “roam around”; in Buddhist usage the term can refer to non-Buddhist peripatetic ascetics including Jains and others.
- Parivrājaka
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ།
- kun tu rgyu ba
- parivrājaka
See also “religious mendicant.”
- wandering mendicant
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
- wandering mendicant
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
Wandering religious practitioners or śramaṇa, usually referring to non-Buddhists.
- wandering mendicant
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ།
- kun tu rgyu ba
- parivrājaka
Literally, “one who wanders around.” An umbrella term for the class of wandering religious ascetics of diverse religious persuasions who were common at the time of the Buddha.
- religious mendicant
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
- religious mendicant
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།
- kun tu rgyu
- parivrājaka
See also “parivrājaka.”
- wanderer
- ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ།
- kun tu rgyu ba
- parivrājaka
Pali paribbājaka. Refers to a class of Indian religious mendicants holding a variety of beliefs who wandered in India from ancient times, including during the time of the Buddha. These peripatetic ascetics, who included women in their number, engaged 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.