Pāli Dictionary

paribbājaka

approximate

pariprefixvajrootakasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

vaj1進行；前進

monastic

  • 游方沙门；外道修行者；（通常指非佛教的）云游苦行者

  • wandering ascetic; religious mendicant (typically non-Buddhist)

  • MN 13

    atha kho tesaṃ bhikkhūnaṃ etadahosi, atippago kho tāva sāvatthiyaṃ piṇḍāya carituṃ, yaṃ nūna mayaṃ yena aññatitthiyānaṃ paribbājakānaṃ ārāmo ten'upasaṅkameyyāmā'ti

  • AN 10.58

    sace, bhikkhave, aññatitthiyā paribbājakā evaṃ puccheyyuṃ, kiṃmūlakā, āvuso, sabbe dhammā, kiṃsambhavā sabbe dhammā, kiṃsamudayā sabbe dhammā, kiṃsamosaraṇā sabbe dhammā

Encyclopedia

Paribbājakā
Person

  • 对佛陀时代游方苦行者与出家隐修者的统称，他们自称与佛陀的教法相近，但佛陀认为二者根本有别。

  • A general term for the wandering religious mendicants and ascetics of the Buddha’s time, who claimed kinship with his teaching but whom the Buddha held to differ fundamentally from his own Doctrine.

SN 12.70

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