sangha (plural sanghas)
The community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; as one of the three jewels of Buddhism.
The Buddhist congregation including laypersons and the "religious" (renunciate monks and nuns who have taken vows).
• Hagans, Saghan
Sangha (plural Sanghas)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sangha is the 20,884th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1,262 individuals. Sangha is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (90.97%) individuals.
• Hagans, Saghan
Source: Wiktionary
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
