རལ་པ་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms

རལ་པ་ཅན།

ral pa can

jaṭila
jaṭī

Term

Publications: 2

Appears in our translations as:

1

ascetic with matted hair

Gayāśīrṣa Hill

ascetic with matted hair

རལ་པ་ཅན།

ral pa can

jaṭila

Definition in this text:

A non-Buddhist ascetic identifiable by the wearing of locks of matted hair.

2 passages contain this term

1

dreadlocked ascetic

The Hundred Deeds

dreadlocked ascetic

རལ་པ་ཅན།

ral pa can

jaṭī

Definition in this text:

A religious sect of men distinguished by their long, clotted hair, to which the Buddha’s disciple Venerable Uruvilvā Kāśyapa had belonged. The Buddha ordained a thousand of them in Uruvilvā.

4 passages contain this term

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AS

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AO

Attested in other text

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AD

Attested in dictionary

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AA

Approximate attestation

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RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

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RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

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SU

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