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Bhātiyavaṅka-vihāra

Place

斯里蘭卡的一座寺院,杜吒伽摩尼在位時的住持為摩訶那伽長老;該寺一位僧人曾目睹諸天神在大塔前禮拜,這些天神因曾參與建塔而轉生天界。

A monastery in Sri Lanka. A monk of the monastery, who once went to worship at the Mahā Thūpa, saw there some devatās also worshipping; they had been born in heaven as a result of having participated in the building of the thūpa (Mhv.xxx.46 f).

In the time of Duṭṭhagāmaṇī, the chief incumbent of the vihāra was Mahānāga. MT. 606.

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