A meeting of the community of monks held twice a month to recite the vinaya rules and confirm that the community is properly functioning in accordance with them.

The eight vows kept by laypeople on the four sacred days of the month: full, new, and half-moon days. Alternate form is upoṣadha (gso sbyong).

A group of eight vows taken for one day on certain days of the month to emphasize purity.

The fortnightly ceremony during which ordained monks and nuns gather to recite the Prātimokṣa vows and confess faults and breaches. The term is also sometimes used in reference to the taking of eight vows by a layperson for just one day, a full-moon or new-moon day.

The ceremony performed every new and full moon day by monastics, in which they confess any faults or transgressions and recite the prātimokṣa. It also refers to the one-day practice adopted by lay people in which they practice restraint according to the eight poṣadha vows and which may also include fasting. See introduction (UT22084-074-003-4).

While this term most often refers to the fortnightly ceremony during which monastics gather to recite the prātimokṣa vows and confess faults and breaches, in the Kriyātantras and other esoteric texts, the term is used in the more general sense of a prescriptive ritual fast and period of abstinence that precedes the performance of many rites. This typically lasts between one and three days, and is to be performed by any practitioner, lay or monastic.

The eight vows taken by a layperson for just one day, usually a full-moon or new-moon day: no killing, no stealing, celibacy, no lying, no intoxicants, no sitting on a high chair, no singing or dancing, no wearing of adornments or perfumes.

A ritual observance involving fasting.

The monastic procedure for confession of misdeeds and the restoration of vows.

The saṅgha’s confession ceremony; the bi-monthly monastic gathering for the restoration of virtues and purification of negativies as prescribed by the Buddha (Rigzin 454).

A twice monthly ceremony performed by monks, nuns, and novices in which the ordained confess and remedy transgressions of their vows, thereby purifying and restoring the vows.

A twice monthly ceremony performed by monks, nuns, and novices in which the ordained confess and remedy offenses against their vows, thereby purifying and restoring the vows.

Also rendered as “poṣadha.”

The fortnightly ceremony during which ordained monks and nuns gather to recite the prātimokṣa vows and confess faults and breaches. The term is also sometimes used in reference to the taking of eight vows by a layperson for just one day, a full-moon or new-moon day.

A bi-weekly ritual performed on the upavasatha holiday, from which the term poṣadha derives. Monastics are expected to confess most types of offenses without delay and so confessions are generally done prior to the start of the restoration rite. During the rite, monastics affirm that they have confessed and amended for offenses, thereby affirming their “purity,” and thus that of the saṅgha as a whole.

A group of eight vows taken for one day on certain days of the month to restore one’s connection to the virtuous path. The Tibetan translation glosses the practice (rather than translating the original Sanskrit) as “reviving (virtue) and purifying (nonvirtue).” The vows include the traditional five “lay precepts,” plus the vows not to sit on high cushions or thrones, not to eat at inappropriate times, and not to engage in or listen to song or dance.

The eight vows kept by laypeople on the four sacred days of the month: the full-, new-, and half-moon days.

A twice-monthly ceremony performed by monks, nuns, and novices in which the ordained confess and repair any transgressions, thereby purifying and restoring their vows.