Pāli Dictionary

pārupana

Part of speech

noun · neuter

Root

var1cover; dress; restrain


monastic

  • a cloak; an outer robe

Encyclopedia

Pārupanā
Otherapproximate
  • The name of one of two rival factions in an eighteenth-century Burmese controversy over how the monastic robe should be worn, holding that both shoulders must be covered, against their opponents who held that covering one shoulder sufficed.

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