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n. A Buddhist monk or priest; one who follows all Buddhist precepts as a full member of the sangha.
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A bhikkhu ( Pali, Sanskrit: bhikṣu, Sinhala: භික්ෂුව) is an ordained male monastic (" monk") in Buddhism. A female monastic (" nun") is called a bhikkhuni (Sanskrit bhikṣuṇī).
The lives of all Buddhist monastics are governed by a set of rules called the prātimokṣa or pātimokkha. Their lifestyles are shaped to support their spiritual practice: to live a simple and meditative life and attain nirvana.
A person under the age of 20 cannot be ordained as a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni but can be ordained as a śrāmaṇera or śrāmaṇērī.
Usage examples of "bhikkhu".
For one day came a holy Bhikkhu from the land of the Peacock,> and would take up his abode in the hollow of their very tree.
His wife is of course (by the usual symbolism) his body, which he could not keep until he put her in a peanut shell, the yellow robe of a Bhikkhu.
The first method to be described has been detailed in Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya's "Training of the Mind" (Equinox I, 5, pp.
Shri Parananda, Solicitor General of Ceylon and an eminent writer upon and teacher of Yoga from the orthodox Shaivite standpoint, and Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya, the great English Adept, who was one of my earliest instructors in Magick and joined the Sangha in Burma in 1902, gave me my first groundings in mystical theory and practice.