The only institutional factor to this involved the Sangha, but lay Buddhists may possibly only interact with the Sangha by making offerings to monks. Indeed, when Buddhism truly only existed as the Sangha, a larger sized social context was assumed. Sanskrit , sûtra, results in being sutta dharma becomes dhamma , ṛṣi (Hindi rishi) will become isi âshrama, , gets assama (King) Aśoka will become Asoka and so on.