upāsaka-saṃvara
Tags: Terms & Concepts
Also known as upāsikā-saṃvara
Tibetan: དགེ་བསྙེན་ཕ་མ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་སྡོམ་པ་
Tibetan (Wylie): dge bsnyen pha ma gnyis kyi sdom pa
Tibetan (phonetics): gue ñen pha ma ñi ki dom pa
English term: Male and female lay vows
Alternative: English Definition: Vows for non-monastic male and female Buddhist practitioners: not killing, not stealling, not having a harmful sexual condcut, not lying, not consuming intoxicants. Lay practitioners can take any number of them, with a minimum of one and a maximum of five.
Spanish: Votos de practicantes laicos y laicas
