Sangha (disambiguation)
Sangha (from Sanskrit saṃgha 'assembly') usually refers to:
- Sangha (Buddhism), the fourfold community of pious Buddhists, and sometimes refers specifically to the body of Buddhist clergy
- Sangha (Jainism), the fourfold community of pious followers of Jainism
- Sangat (Sikhism), the community of believers in Sikhism
Sangha may also refer to:
Places
- Sangha, Mali, a rural commune in Mali
- Sangha Department (Burkina Faso), a department in eastern Burkina Faso
- Sangha Department (Republic of the Congo), a department in northern Congo-Brazzaville
- Sangha-Mbaéré, an economic prefecture in the Central African Republic
- Sangha Trinational, a forest in Central Africa
- Sangha River, a tributary of the Congo river of Central Africa
Other uses
- Sangha people of the Republic of the Congo
- Sangh Parivar, a family of Hindu Nationalist organisations
- Gana sangha, a type of republic or oligarchy in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.
- Sangha (Vidhan Sabha constituency), a constituency of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly in India reserved for the Buddhist monastic community
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