Pāli Dictionary

āḷāra

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 알라라 칼라마; 부처님이 출가 후 처음으로 사사한 스승

  • Āḷāra Kālāma; the first teacher of the Buddha during his quest for enlightenment

  • MN 36

    so evaṃ pabbajito samāno kiṃkusalagavesī anuttaraṃ santivarapadaṃ pariyesamāno yena āḷāro kālāmo ten'upasaṅkamiṃ, upasaṅkamitvā āḷāraṃ kālāmaṃ etadavocaṃ, icchām'ahaṃ, āvuso kālāma, imasmiṃ dhammavinaye brahmacariyaṃ caritun'ti.

  • MN 26

    ayaṃ kho āḷāro kālāmo paṇḍito viyatto medhāvī dīgharattaṃ apparaj'akkhajātiko. yaṃnūn'āhaṃ āḷārassa kālāmassa paṭhamaṃ dhammaṃ deseyyaṃ.

Encyclopedia

Aḷāra
Personapproximate

  • 포로가 된 나가 왕 상카팔라를 몸값을 치르고 구한 비데하국의 지주로, 나가 세계에서 일 년간의 영화를 보상받았으며 후에 고행자가 되었고, 사리풋타의 전생으로 동일시된다

  • A landowner of the Videha country who ransomed the captured Nāga king Saṅkhapāla, was rewarded with a year of splendour in the Nāga realm, later became an ascetic, and is identified as a former birth of Sāriputta.

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