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vihara
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n. a Buddhistic monastery
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Vihara (विहार, vihāra) is the Sanskrit and Pali term for a Buddhist monastery. It originally meant "a secluded place in which to walk", and referred to "dwellings" or "refuges" used by wandering monks during the rainy season.
The northern Indian state of Bihar derives its name from the word "vihara", due to the abundance of Buddhist monasteries in that area. The word "vihara" has also been borrowed in Malay where it is spelled "biara," and denotes a monastery or other non-Muslim place of worship. In Thailand and China (called ; ), "vihara" has a narrower meaning, and designates a small shrine hall or retreat house. It is called a "Wihan" in Thai, and a "Vihear" in Khmer. In Burmese, wihara (, ), means "monastery," but the native Burmese word kyaung (, ) is preferred.
Usage examples of "vihara".
This done, they wash their hands with scented water and bring out the bone, which they place outside the vihara, on a lofty platform, where it is supported on a round pedestal of the seven precious substances, and covered with a bell of /lapis lazuli/, both adorned with rows of pearls.
Every day, after it has been brought forth, the keepers of the vihara ascend a high gallery, where they beat great drums, blow conchs, and clash their copper cymbals.
When the king hears them, he goes to the vihara, and makes his offerings of flowers and incense.
When all the offerings are over, they replace the bone in the vihara, where there is a vimoksha tope,[7] of the seven precious substances, and rather more than five cubits high, sometimes open, sometimes shut, to contain it.
In front of the door of the vihara, there are parties who every morning sell flowers and incense,[8] and those who wish to make offerings buy some of all kinds.
The vihara stands in a square of thirty paces, and though heaven should shake and earth be rent, this place would not move.
They went down to the yellow springs[10] without reaching the bottom of the steps, and from this the king received an increase to his reverence and faith, and built a vihara over the steps, with a standing image, sixteen cubits in height, right over the middle flight.
Behind the vihara he erected a stone pillar, about fifty cubits high,[11] with a lion on the top of it.
When Buddha on his return entered the vihara, Buddha said to it, "Return to your seat.
Buddha then removed, and dwelt in a small vihara on the south side (of the other), a different place from that containing the image, and twenty paces distant from it.
In front of this there is a footprint of Buddha, where a vihara has been built.
After going ten yojanas he found a vihara, named "The Wilderness,"--a place where Buddha had dwelt, and where there are monks now.
Rather more than ten le to the north-east of the city, he found the vihara in the park of "The rishi's Deer-wild.
We must suppose that the original record had disappeared from the Jetavana vihara, or Fa-hien would probably have spoken of it when he was there, and copied it, if he had been allowed to do so.
Beneath the tree there has been built a vihara, in which there is an image (of Buddha) seated, which the monks and commonalty reverence and look up to without ever becoming wearied.