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Transliteration of Sanskrit सङ्घ (saṅgha, “heap, multitude, crowd”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sangha
Today it means: The community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism. Full definition →