# sangha

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #53,836

## Definitions
1. 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.
2. The Buddhist congregation including laypersons and the "religious" (renunciate monks and nuns who have taken vows).

## Etymology
Transliteration of Sanskrit सङ्घ (saṅgha, “heap, multitude, crowd”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sangha