དགེ་ཚུལ་མ། | Glossary of Terms

དགེ་ཚུལ་མ།

dge tshul ma

śrāmaṇerī

Term

Publications: 2

Appears in our translations as:

1

female novice

The Chapter on the Rains

female novice

དགེ་ཚུལ་མ།

dge tshul ma

śrāmaṇerī AS

Definition in this text:

A female who has been inducted into the novitiate (Tib. dge tshul nyid du bsgrub). Female novices in the Mūlasarvāstivādin tradition take ten precepts.

4 passages contain this term

1

śrāmaṇerī

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma

śrāmaṇerī

དགེ་ཚུལ་མ།

dge tshul ma

śrāmaṇerī

Definition in this text:

Within the Buddhist tradition it means a novice nun who in the Tibetan Mūlasarvāstivāda monastic tradition takes thirty-six vows.

1 passage contains this term

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AS

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AO

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AD

Attested in dictionary

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AA

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RP

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RS

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SU

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