• ཁྱིམ་ན་གནས་པ།
  • ཁྱིམ་པ།
  • khyim pa
  • khyim na gnas pa
  • gṛhastha
  • gṛhin
  • Term
Publications: 2
  • householder
  • ཁྱིམ་པ།
  • ཁྱིམ་ན་གནས་པ།
  • khyim pa
  • khyim na gnas pa
  • gṛhin
  • householder
  • ཁྱིམ་པ།
  • khyim pa
  • gṛhastha
Definition in this text:

Householders are “stay-at-home” (gṛhastha) Buddhist practitioners and meditators who have not completely given up worldly life, in contrast to those who have “gone forth” (pravrajita), i.e., originally itinerant, celibate ascetics, and monks and nuns.