| Notes | [fr. New. bahiri] var. bahili; n. 1) a Buddhist monastery where celibate monks live, mostly located on the city outskirts (Malla 2000: 322). Architecturally, the four sides of a bahī courtyard are usually only partially enclosed, and it is possible to walk around the back of the main Śākyamuni shrine in a special circumambulatory passage (Gellner 1992: 167). There is ordinarily only one opening in the entire ground floor, the main entrance; and usually one mounts a flight of stairs up to the entrance (Locke 1985: 5). (#new#RS) |
