Religious orderA religious order is a subgroup within a larger confessional community that has members who lead a contemplative lifestyle devoted to prayer and service. Religious orders often trace their lineage from their founders and have a text describing their lifestyle called a rule of life. Such orders exist in a number of the world's religions and their denominations.
SamaneraA sāmaṇera (Pali; Sanskrit: 𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀫𑀡𑁂𑀭, romanized: śrāmaṇera) is a novice male monastic in Buddhism. A novice female monastic is a sāmaṇerī, in Sanskrit śrāmaṇerī or śrāmaṇerikā. EtymologyThe sāmaṇera is a diminutive equivalent to the Sanskrit term śrāmaṇera, which indicates an ascetic practitioner. Therefore, sāmaṇera might be said to mean "small or young renunciate (ascetic)".
TraditionA tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes (like lawyers' wigs or military officers' spurs), but the idea has also been applied to social norms and behaviors such as greetings.
Religious vowsReligious vows are the public vows made by the members of religious communities pertaining to their conduct, practices, and views. In the Buddhist tradition, in particular within the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions, many different kinds of religious vows are taken by the lay community as well as by the monastic community, as they progress along the path of their practice.
BuddhismIndian religion and philosophy The Kamakura Daibutsu, a 13th-century bronze statue of the Buddha Amitābha in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Part of a series onBuddhism Buddhists list Glossary Index Outline History Timeline The Buddha Pre-sectarian Buddhism Councils Silk Road transmission of Buddhism Decline in the Indian subcontinent Buddhist modernism DharmaConcepts Four Noble Truths Noble Eightfold Path Dharma wheel Five Aggregates Impermanence Suffering No-self Dependent Origination Middle Way Mettā Emptiness Morality Karma Rebirth Saṃsāra Cosmology Buddhist texts Buddhavacana Early Texts Tripiṭaka Mahayana Sutras Pāli Canon Sanskrit literature Tibetan canon Chinese canon Post-canon Practices Three Jewels Buddhist paths to liberation Five precepts Perfections Meditation Philosophical reasoning Devotional practices Merit making Recollections Mindfulness Wisdom Sublime abidings Aids to Enlightenment Monasticism Lay life Buddhist liturgy Buddhist chant Pilgrimage Vegetarianism Nirvāṇa Awakening Four Stages Arhat Pratyekabuddhayāna Bodhisattva Buddha Traditions Theravāda Pāli Mahāyāna Hinayana Chinese Vajrayāna Tibetan Navayana Newar Buddhism by country Bhutan Brazil Cambodia China India Indonesia Japan Korea Laos Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar New Zealand Russia Singapore US Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Tibet Vietnam Buddhism portalvte Part of a series onReligion Outline Index Timeline Aspects Behaviour Clergy Conversion Denomination Disaffiliation Education School Laity Monasticism Prayer Ritual Symbols Text Worship Beliefs Acosmism Animism Anthropopathism Dualism and Nondualism Fideism Mysticism Omnism Spiritualism Shamanism Transcendentalism Theism Classical theism Henotheism Monotheism Kathenotheism Panentheism Pantheism Polytheism Transtheism Concepts Afterlife Cult Deity Elite religion Experience Meditation Faith Folk religion Lived religion Miracle Mythology Prophecy Reincarnation Revelation Salvation Spirit Soul Supernatural Truth Society Discrimination Freedom Gender Happiness LGBTQ people Politics Science Sexuality Suicide Vegetarianism Violence Persecution War Wealth Studies Anthropology Cognitive science Comparative Eschatology Evolutionary origin Evolutionary psychology History Neurotheology Philosophy Psychology Sociology Soteriology Theology Theories about religion Religions Historical Ancient Egyptian Ancient Greek Gnosticism Ancient Roman Mithraism Ancient Mesopotamian Prehistoric Proto-Indo-Iranian World Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Jainism Islam Sikhism Indigenous African traditional Chinese Taoism Judaism Korean Native American Mandaeism Samaritanism Shinto Vietnamese Yazidism Zoroastrianism New Bábism Baháʼí Goddess Modern paganism New Age Tenrikyo UFO religion Raëlism Category Portalvte Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya (transl.
Canon lawCanon law is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. Canon law includes the internal ecclesiastical law, or operational policy, governing the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches), the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the individual national churches within the Anglican Communion.
VinayaVinaya (Pali and Sanskrit: विनय) refers to numerous monastic rules and ethical precepts for fully ordained monks and nuns of Buddhist Sanghas (community of like-minded sramanas). These sets of ethical rules and guidelines developed over time during the Buddha's life. More broadly, the term also refers to the tradition of Buddhist ethical conduct.World of WarcraftWorld of Warcraft (WoW) is a 2004 massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Windows and macOS. Set in the Warcraft universe, World of Warcraft takes place within the fictional planet Azeroth, approximately four years after the events of the previous game in the series, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
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SamaneraA sāmaṇera (Pali; Sanskrit: 𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀫𑀡𑁂𑀭, romanized: śrāmaṇera) is a novice male monastic in Buddhism. A novice female monastic is a sāmaṇerī, in Sanskrit śrāmaṇerī or śrāmaṇerikā. EtymologyThe sāmaṇera is a diminutive equivalent to the Sanskrit term śrāmaṇera, which indicates an ascetic practitioner. Therefore, sāmaṇera might be said to mean "small or young renunciate (ascetic)".TraditionA tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes (like lawyers' wigs or military officers' spurs), but the idea has also been applied to social norms and behaviors such as greetings.Religious vowsReligious vows are the public vows made by the members of religious communities pertaining to their conduct, practices, and views. In the Buddhist tradition, in particular within the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions, many different kinds of religious vows are taken by the lay community as well as by the monastic community, as they progress along the path of their practice.BuddhismIndian religion and philosophy The Kamakura Daibutsu, a 13th-century bronze statue of the Buddha Amitābha in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Part of a series onBuddhism Buddhists list Glossary Index Outline History Timeline The Buddha Pre-sectarian Buddhism Councils Silk Road transmission of Buddhism Decline in the Indian subcontinent Buddhist modernism DharmaConcepts Four Noble Truths Noble Eightfold Path Dharma wheel Five Aggregates Impermanence Suffering No-self Dependent Origination Middle Way Mettā Emptiness Morality Karma Rebirth Saṃsāra Cosmology Buddhist texts Buddhavacana Early Texts Tripiṭaka Mahayana Sutras Pāli Canon Sanskrit literature Tibetan canon Chinese canon Post-canon Practices Three Jewels Buddhist paths to liberation Five precepts Perfections Meditation Philosophical reasoning Devotional practices Merit making Recollections Mindfulness Wisdom Sublime abidings Aids to Enlightenment Monasticism Lay life Buddhist liturgy Buddhist chant Pilgrimage Vegetarianism Nirvāṇa Awakening Four Stages Arhat Pratyekabuddhayāna Bodhisattva Buddha Traditions Theravāda Pāli Mahāyāna Hinayana Chinese Vajrayāna Tibetan Navayana Newar Buddhism by country Bhutan Brazil Cambodia China India Indonesia Japan Korea Laos Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar New Zealand Russia Singapore US Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Tibet Vietnam Buddhism portalvte Part of a series onReligion Outline Index Timeline Aspects Behaviour Clergy Conversion Denomination Disaffiliation Education School Laity Monasticism Prayer Ritual Symbols Text Worship Beliefs Acosmism Animism Anthropopathism Dualism and Nondualism Fideism Mysticism Omnism Spiritualism Shamanism Transcendentalism Theism Classical theism Henotheism Monotheism Kathenotheism Panentheism Pantheism Polytheism Transtheism Concepts Afterlife Cult Deity Elite religion Experience Meditation Faith Folk religion Lived religion Miracle Mythology Prophecy Reincarnation Revelation Salvation Spirit Soul Supernatural Truth Society Discrimination Freedom Gender Happiness LGBTQ people Politics Science Sexuality Suicide Vegetarianism Violence Persecution War Wealth Studies Anthropology Cognitive science Comparative Eschatology Evolutionary origin Evolutionary psychology History Neurotheology Philosophy Psychology Sociology Soteriology Theology Theories about religion Religions Historical Ancient Egyptian Ancient Greek Gnosticism Ancient Roman Mithraism Ancient Mesopotamian Prehistoric Proto-Indo-Iranian World Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Jainism Islam Sikhism Indigenous African traditional Chinese Taoism Judaism Korean Native American Mandaeism Samaritanism Shinto Vietnamese Yazidism Zoroastrianism New Bábism Baháʼí Goddess Modern paganism New Age Tenrikyo UFO religion Raëlism Category Portalvte Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya (transl.Canon lawCanon law is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. Canon law includes the internal ecclesiastical law, or operational policy, governing the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches), the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the individual national churches within the Anglican Communion.VinayaVinaya (Pali and Sanskrit: विनय) refers to numerous monastic rules and ethical precepts for fully ordained monks and nuns of Buddhist Sanghas (community of like-minded sramanas). These sets of ethical rules and guidelines developed over time during the Buddha's life. More broadly, the term also refers to the tradition of Buddhist ethical conduct.World of WarcraftWorld of Warcraft (WoW) is a 2004 massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Windows and macOS. Set in the Warcraft universe, World of Warcraft takes place within the fictional planet Azeroth, approximately four years after the events of the previous game in the series, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.National Hunt racingSport of horse racing in Western Europe National Hunt racing, also known as jump racing, is a form of horse racing particular to many European countries, including France, Great Britain and Ireland. Jump racing requires horses to jump over fences and ditches. In the UK, National Hunt racing is divided into two major distinct branches: hurdling and steeplechase, as well as flat races called "bumpers".ProfessionA profession is a field of work that has been formally professionalized. It can be defined as a disciplined group of individuals, professionals, who adhere to ethical standards and are recognized by the public as possessing specialized knowledge and skills grounded in a widely recognized body of learning derived from advanced research, education, and training, and who apply this knowledge and exercise these skills in the interest of others.Catholic ChurchChristian church based in RomeHorse racingEquestrian sportSteeplechase racing at DeauvilleHarness racing in AdelaideTraditional bareback horse racing in the Palio di Legnano 2013Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.Special:Search/noviceRelated word or term.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.