ぐそくかい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぐそくかい – see the following entry.
具足戒
[noun] (Buddhism) in Japanese Buddhist schools practising monastic ordination, list of precepts to be followed by male and female monastics, traditionally numbering 250 for monks and 348 for nuns. Pratimoksa.
(This term, ぐそくかい (gusokukai), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)