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Wylie | Tibetan

pagan

See also gentile, nation

phyi pa/ 

[lit. outsider]

Biblical: used of those outside the Christian or Jewish faith: de thams cad phyi pas 'tshol/  the pagans seek these things (Mt. 6:32), khyed tsho phyi pa yin pa'i dus su/  when you were pagans (1 Cor. 12:2).

Buddhist: phyi pa/  or phyi rol pa/  one who is not a Bst. (AMD, TRI 174).