Gāmavāsi

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gāmavāsi (Pali), literally "town-dweller," refers to a tradition of town-dwelling monks as contrasted with "forest-dwellers" (araññavāsi) within the Pali tradition.[1] In this context:[1]

  • the town-dwellers live in towns or urban monasteries, and are more focused on doctrinal study and teaching, and
  • the forest-dwellers live in relative isolation in the forests and are primarily dedicated to meditation training.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. gāmavāsi
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