The only institutional part to this concerned the Sangha, but lay Buddhists may perhaps only interact with the Sangha by generating choices to monks. Indeed, when Buddhism genuinely only existed as the Sangha, a bigger social context was assumed. Sanskrit , sûtra, turns into sutta dharma will become dhamma , ṛṣi (Hindi rishi) gets isi âshrama, , becomes assama (King) Aśoka results in being Asoka and so forth.