The only institutional part to this associated the Sangha, but lay Buddhists may well only interact with the Sangha by generating choices to monks. Indeed, when Buddhism definitely only existed as the Sangha, a larger sized social context was assumed. Sanskrit , sûtra, gets sutta dharma will become dhamma , ṛṣi (Hindi rishi) becomes isi âshrama, , becomes assama (King) Aśoka becomes Asoka etcetera.