sangha

sangha

See also: Sangha and saṅgha

English

Alternative forms

• samgha, sangh

Etymology

Transliteration of Sanskrit सङ्घ (saṅgha, “heap, multitude, crowd”).

Noun

sangha (plural sanghas)

1. The community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; as one of the three jewels of Buddhism.
2. The Buddhist congregation including laypersons and the "religious" (renunciate monks and nuns who have taken vows).

Derived terms

• cybersangha

Translations

community of all followers of the Buddha

Bengali: সংঘ (śôṅghô) Burmese: သံဃာ (my) (samgha) Chinese: Mandarin: 僧伽 (zh) (sēngjiā) French: sangha (fr) m or f Hindi: संघ (hi) m (saṅgh) Japanese: 僧伽 (そうぎゃ, sōgya) Khmer: សង្ឃ (km) (sɑng) Korean: 승가(僧伽) (ko) (seungga) Lao: ສົງ (song), ສົງຄະ (song kha) Malay: sangha Malayalam: സംഘം (ml) (saṅghaṃ) Pali: saṅgha m Russian: са́нгха f (sángxa), са́мгха f (sámgxa) Sanskrit: सङ्घ (sa) m (saṅgha) Shan: သင်ႇၶႃႇ (shn) (sàng khàa), သၢင်ႇၶႃႇ (sàang khàa) Sinhalese: සංඝ (saṁgha) Tamil: சங்கம் (ta) (caṅkam) Thai: พระสงฆ์ (th), สงฆ์ (th) (sǒng) Tibetan: དགེ་འདུན (dge 'dun) Vietnamese: tăng đoàn

See also

• bodhicitta
• Buddha-nature
• dharma
• enlightenment
• Four Noble Truths
• nirvana
• six perfections
• sunyata

Anagrams

• Gahans, Hagans, Saghan

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Pali saṅgha, from Sanskrit सङ्घ (saṅgha). Doublet of sangga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsaŋha]
• Hyphenation: sang‧ha

Noun

sangha (first-person possessive sanghaku, second-person possessive sanghamu, third-person possessive sanghanya)

1. bhikkhu

Further reading

• “sangha” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.