Abrahmacariya, Abrahma-cariya: 3 definitions
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Abrahmacariya means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
N (Absence of chastity). Sexual activity.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
abrahmacariya (အဗြဟ္မစရိယ) [(na) (န)]—
[abrahma+cariya,abrahmānaṃ nihīnānaṃ abrahmaṃ vā nihīnaṃ cariyaṃ vutti abrahmacariyaṃ,methunadhammo. sī,ṭī,,1.332.]
[အဗြဟ္မ+စရိယ၊ အဗြဟ္မာနံ နိဟီနာနံ အဗြဟ္မံ ဝါ နိဟီနံ စရိယံ ဝုတ္တိ အဗြဟ္မစရိယံ၊ မေထုနဓမ္မော။ သီ၊ဋီ၊သစ်၊၁။၃၃၂။]
[Pali to Burmese]
abrahmacariya—
(Burmese text): (က) မမြတ်-ယုတ်-သော သူတို့၏-မမြတ်-ယုတ်-သော-မေထုန်အကျင့်။ (ခ) ပါရာဇိက-အန္တိမ-ဝတ္ထု။ (ဂ) နှစ်ယောက် နှစ်ယောက်-အစုံအစုံ-ကျင့်ခြင်း၊ မေထုန်မှီဝဲခြင်း၊ ကာယဒွါရ၌ ဖြစ်သော မသူတော် တရားအကျင့်ကို မှီဝဲကြောင်း ဝီတိက္ကမစေတနာ။ (ဃ) မိစ္ဆာမဂ် ၈-ပါး။
(Auto-Translation): (a) The conduct of those who are unworthy and not noble. (b) The ultimate Dharma text. (c) Practicing together in pairs, relying on noble conduct that arises in the context of the body, with the intention of establishing wholesome deeds. (d) The eight parts of the Magha Sutta.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Abrahma, Cariya.
Starts with: Abrahmacariyanivatti, Abrahmacariyasambhava, Abrahmacariyavantu, Abrahmacariyavasa, Abrahmacariyavatthu, Abrahmacariyavatthupatisedha.
Full-text: Abrahmacariyavatthu, Abrahmacariyanivatti, Abrahmacariyavasa, Abrahmacariyasambhava, Fei fan xing, Brahmacariya, Samasera.
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Search found 6 books and stories containing Abrahmacariya, Abrahma-cariya; (plurals include: Abrahmacariyas, cariyas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Five, Eight and Ten Precepts < [Chapter 6 - On Pāramitā]
Brahmacariya-Pañcama Sīla < [Chapter 6 - On Pāramitā]
Part 10b - The method of fulfilling the Perfection of Morality (Sīla-Pāramī) < [Chapter 7 - On Miscellany]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Part 2 - Morality of the śrāmaṇera < [Section II.2 - Morality of the monastic or pravrajita]
Precepts (by Ajahn Sumedho)
Vinaya Pitaka (1): Bhikkhu-vibhanga (the analysis of Monks’ rules) (by I. B. Horner)
Eight sections of the Pātimokkha rules < [Translator’s Introduction]
The Great Buddhist Emperors of Asia (by Shibani Dutta)
Buddhist Monastic Discipline (by Jotiya Dhirasekera)