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: সঙ্ঘ (bn) (śoṅgho), সংঘ (bn) (śoṅgho)
• 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) (saṅghaṁ)
• 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 (vi), giáo hội (vi)

See also

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

Anagrams

• Hagans, Saghan, sangah, Gahans

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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.