In Buddhism, sangha refers to the monastic communities of bhikkhu (monks) and bhikkhuni (nuns). These communities are traditionally referred to as the bhikkhu-sangha or the bhikkhuni-sangha.

Sangha, Buddhist monastic order, traditionally composed of four groups: monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen. The sangha is part—together with the Buddha and the dharma (teaching)—of the Threefold Refuge, a basic creed of Buddhism.

The word “Sangha” is a Sanskrit term that means “community,” and which is used primarily to refer to the Buddha’s ordained followers, who are known as bhikshus and bhikshunis, or monks and nuns.

In modern Western Buddhist communities, the term sangha is commonly used to refer to all the members of a particular community, whether lay or monasitc. Traditionally, the term pariṣad ("followers") is used to refer to the larger Buddhist community …

But what is sangha, and why is it just as valuable as the first two? Understanding the meaning of sangha can help us realize its value, and can help us connect to our own. Defining Sangha. The definition of sangha, a Sanskrit word, might be described as …

Sangha (Pali and Sanskrit for “community” or “order”) traditionally refers to the community of Buddhist monastics, whom lay Buddhists support and take refuge in. Today, it is used in the West to refer more broadly to the community of Buddhist practitioners, both lay and monastic.

The Buddha established the Sangha— originally a community of celibate monks and nuns who follow strict discipline and teach the Dharma to fellow Buddhists. Some consider the Sangha to include both monastics and Buddhist laypeople.

Sangha is the word used for a community of fellow practitioners in Buddhism. But a Sangha does not necessarily have to be Buddhist. Thich Nhat Hanh, also called Thay, wrote in his recent book Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society the following text (it has been shorted for an abridged version): It is difficult to make a change alone.

2017年3月8日 · Sangha is a word in the Pali language that means "association" or "assembly." The Sanskrit equivalent is samgha. In early Buddhism, sangha referred to the community of all Buddhists, both ordained and laypeople. This was sometimes called the "fourfold assembly" -- monks, nuns, laywomen, laymen.

2012年4月24日 · The Sangha is the Buddhist community; it is the men, women and children who follow the teachings of the Buddha. The term, which in Sanskrit and Pāli means “collection” or “assemblage,” a group of people living together for a certain purpose, has come to have two different referents.