Pāli Dictionary

āḷāra

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 阿羅邏·迦羅摩；佛陀出家求道時的第一位老師

  • 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
Person

  • 毗提訶（Videha）地方的一位地主，曾出資救出被俘的龍王 Saṅkhapāla，因而在龍宮享受了一年的富貴生活，後出家修苦行，前生即舍利弗。

  • 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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