많은 무리라는 뜻으로 마하승가 (摩訶僧伽)라 음역. 많은 스님들 또는 사부대중 (四部大衆)의 총칭

Mahasangha: The great assembly or congregation. A general term for a great community of monks, or the fourfold assembly or community of monks, nuns, male and female lay people.