• ལྷག་མ་མེད་པ།
  • lhag ma med pa
  • nirvaśeṣa
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  • unatonable
  • ལྷག་མ་མེད་པ།
  • lhag ma med pa
  • nirvaśeṣa AS
Definition in this text:

Defeats (Tib. phas pham pa; Skt. pārājika) are unatonable offenses and result in “being denied the common living” (Tib. gnas pa ma yin pa; Skt. asaṃvāsa) with the saṅgha, meaning that one can no longer participate in the saṅgha’s official acts or partake of its resources and offerings. The other four types of offense, such as saṅgha remnant (Tib. dge ’dun lhag ma; Skt. saṃghāvaśeṣa) are atonable, meaning that one may be reinstated to full status in the community once one has properly made amends and served any penance or probation required. Note that Yijing translates 他勝 as “defeat” (Skt. pārājika) rather than “unatonable” (Taishō 1446, 1047b18).