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Abhaya3

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しばしば誤ってアバヤ王子と同一視されるヴェーサーリーのリッチャヴィの貴族で、仏陀の教えについてアーナンダと、後には仏陀自身と議論した

A Licchavi of Vesāli generally (e.g., GS.i.200, n.2; ii.211, n.2; KS.v.107, n.2.), but wrongly, identified with Abhayarājakumāra. On one occasion he comes with another Licchavi, Paṇḍita Kumāraka, to Ānanda in the Kūṭāgārasālā in Vesāli, and discusses with him certain views held by Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta. Ānanda teaches him the Buddha’s three Ways of purification (For details see A.i.220-2). On another occasion he visits the Buddha, again at Vesāli, with the Licchavi Sāḷha; the latter asks the Buddha’s views on purity of morals and self-mortification. The Buddha tells him of the Noble Way and explains its implications by various similes (See A.ii.202-4). We are not told that either of them became converts on this occasion.

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