- ri khrod/
- ID:
- T188873
- རི་ཁྲོད (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > ri khrod/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > ritrö (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
- Basic Syllabic Etymology:
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Literally “mountain-middle” or “mountain-midst,” this syllabic meaning indicates the geographic location of a retreat as being in the mountains.
Etymology
A small religious residence found in a relatively isolated mountain location. Most hermitages began as the place a single individual settled for intensive, solitary practice, these individuals being variously called “retreatant” (mtshams pa), “meditator” (sgom chen), “recluse” (gcig bu pa or dben sa pa), and “hermit” (ri khrod pa). Originally, these sites may have been just a cave with no buildings or, when no cave existed, the practitioner might have built a simple stone-and-mud hut. Subsequently, and based on the renown and charisma of their original resident/founder, communities coalesced and the hermitage grew in size. When it became relatively large, the site often ceased to be called “hermitage” and began to be called “monastery” (dgon pa), but the dividing line between these two terms – hermitage (ri khrod) and monastery (dgon pa) – is fuzzy. There are some hermitages, for example, that have more monks than many institutions that bear the name “monastery.” Many of Tibet’s greatest monasteries began as the hermitage of an individual practitioner.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Steven Weinberger
Other Dictionaries
1. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary
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mountain peaks, hermit, solitary retreat, mountain solitude / hermitage, retreat place, wilderness. amongst mountains,
- language:
- English
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mountain retreats
- language:
- English
2. Ives Waldo Dictionary
1) [small monastery] [lit] among the mts, mt peaks, hermit, solitary retreat, mt solitude/hermitage, retreat place, wilderness
- language:
- English
3. Jim Valby Dictionary
hermitage, chain of mountains, group of hills, recluse's cave, range of mountain peaks, hermit wilderness, mountain retreat hermitage, sanctuary, retreat, recluse's cell in the midst of a group of hills
- language:
- English
5. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo
[2672] 1༽ རིའི་གསེབ། ... 2༽ རི་གསེབ་ཀྱི་དགོན་པ་ཆུང་ངུ། ...
- language:
- English
8. Mahāvyutpatti: Sanskrit-Tibetan-English Vocabulary
- Sanskrit:
- parvatakandaraḥ
9. Yogācāra Glossary
- Sanskrit:
- parvata-kandara
10. Negi Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary
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girigahvaraḥ — དེ་ནས་རི་ཁྲོད་དེ་ན་ནི། /སྟག་མོ … མཐོང་༎ athātra vyāghravanitāṃ dadarśa girigahvare
- language:
- Sanskrit
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jā.mā.4ka/3; ma.vyu.5280 (79ka); girigahanam — ཐར་པ་འདོད་པ་རི་ཁྲོད་གནས་པར་བྱེད༎ girigahane vicaranti mokṣakāmāḥ rā.pa.234kha/129; parvatakandaraḥ — རི་ཁྲོད་དམ་རི་ཕུག་གམ … དུར་ཁྲོད་དམ་ནགས་འདབ་བམ parvatakandaragiriguhā… śmaśānavanaprasthāni śrā.bhū.6ka/12.
- language:
- Sanskrit