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<noinclude>The '''seven types of [[pratimoksha vows]]''' ([[Wyl.]] ''so thar gyi sdom pa bdun'') are the vows of:
<noinclude>The '''seven types of [[pratimoksha vows]]''' ([[Wyl.]] ''so thar gyi sdom pa bdun'') are the vows of:
<noinclude/>#a [[fully ordained monk]] (Skt. ''bhikṣu''; Tib. [[དགེ་སློང་]])
</noinclude>#a [[fully ordained monk]] (Skt. ''bhikṣu''; Tib. [[དགེ་སློང་]])
#a [[fully ordained nun]] (Skt. ''bhikṣuṇī''; Tib. [[དགེ་སློང་མ་]])
#a [[fully ordained nun]] (Skt. ''bhikṣuṇī''; Tib. [[དགེ་སློང་མ་]])
#a [[novice monk]] (Skt. ''śrāmanera''; Tib. [[དགེ་ཚུལ་]])
#a [[novice monk]] (Skt. ''śrāmanera''; Tib. [[དགེ་ཚུལ་]])
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[[Category: Vows and commitments]]
[[Category: Vows and commitments]]
[[Category: Enumerations]]
[[Category: Enumerations]]
[[Category: 07-Seven]]<noinclude/>
[[Category: 07-Seven]]</noinclude>

Revision as of 12:49, 18 March 2016

The seven types of pratimoksha vows (Wyl. so thar gyi sdom pa bdun) are the vows of:

  1. a fully ordained monk (Skt. bhikṣu; Tib. དགེ་སློང་)
  2. a fully ordained nun (Skt. bhikṣuṇī; Tib. དགེ་སློང་མ་)
  3. a novice monk (Skt. śrāmanera; Tib. དགེ་ཚུལ་)
  4. a novice nun (Skt. śrāmanerikā; Tib. དགེ་ཚུལ་མ་)
  5. a female novice in training for full ordination (Skt. śikṣamāṇā; Tib. དགེ་སློབ་མ་)
  6. a male lay practitioner (Skt. upāsaka; Tib. དགེ་བསྙེན་)
  7. a female lay practitioner (Skt. upāsikā; Tib. དགེ་བསྙེན་མ་)

There are sometimes said to be eight types of pratimoksha vows.