Pāli Dictionary

paribbājaka

pariprefixvajrootakasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

vaj1進行；前進

monastic

  • 遊方沙門；外道修行者；（通常指非佛教的）雲遊苦行者

  • 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
Personapproximate

  • 對佛陀時代遊方苦行者與出家隱修者的統稱，他們自稱與佛陀的教法相近，但佛陀認為二者根本有別。

  • 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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