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  2. Oshō - Wikipedia

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    Oshō (和尚) is a Buddhist priest (in charge of a temple); [1] honorific title of preceptor or high priest (especially in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism). The same kanji are also pronounced kashō as an honorific title of preceptor or high priest in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism and wajō as an honorific title of preceptor or high priest in Shingon, Hossō, Ritsu, or Shin Buddhism.

  3. List of religious titles and styles - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist honorifics and titles; Role Description ... Presbyter is the official name of the ministers commonly called 'priest'; persons ordained to the presbyterate ...

  4. Bhikkhu - Wikipedia

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    A bhikkhu (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, romanized: bhikṣu) is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. [1] Male, and female monastics , are members of the Sangha (Buddhist community). [2] The lives of all Buddhist monastics are governed by a set of rules called the prātimokṣa or pātimokkha. [1]

  5. List of Buddhists - Wikipedia

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    Achan Sobin S. Namto (born 1931), taught Vipassana meditation and Buddhist psychology in Southeast Asia and North America for over 50 years; Gudo Wafu Nishijima (1919–2014) Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), major revivalist of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and a Buddhist modernist for his efforts in interpreting Buddhism through a Westernized lens

  6. Zen ranks and hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Half of the jūshoku (priests) connected to Myōshin-ji stayed there less than two years, and 10% even shorter than one year. [8] The stay at the monastery is meant to learn the skills and social role necessary to function as a priest: [T]he goal of Zen is not simply an inner state of tranquility but the social reconstruction of the self" [11]

  7. Category:Buddhist priests - Wikipedia

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    Women Buddhist priests (10 P) Z. Zen Buddhist priests (48 P) Pages in category "Buddhist priests" This category contains only the following page.

  8. Dharma name - Wikipedia

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    A Dharma name is a new name acquired during both lay and monastic Buddhist initiation rituals in Mahayana Buddhism [1] and monastic ordination in Theravada Buddhism (where it is more proper to call it Dhamma or Sangha name). The name is traditionally given by a Buddhist monastic, and is given to newly ordained monks, nuns [2] and laity. [3]

  9. Buddhist monasticism - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist monasticism is one of the earliest surviving forms of organized monasticism and one of the fundamental institutions of Buddhism.Monks and nuns, called bhikkhu (Pali, Skt. bhikshu) and bhikkhuni (Skt. bhikshuni), are responsible for the preservation and dissemination of the Buddha's teaching and the guidance of Buddhist lay people.