Bodhimaṇḍa

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부처님이 깨달음을 얻고 그 후 몇 주 동안 머무셨던 보리수 아래 자리로, 훗날 보디만다 정사가 세워져 그 자리를 표시하였다.

The name given to the spot under the Bodhi tree where the Buddha attained Enlightenment and where he sat for one week after the Enlightenment (Vin.i.1; but according to DhA.i.71 he spent seven weeks there).

A monastery was later erected there called the Bodhimaṇḍa-vihāra.

Thirty thousand monks, under Cittagutta, came from there to the foundation ceremony of the Mahā Thūpa (Mhv.xxix.41). It was near here that Buddhaghosa was born (Cv.xxxvii.215), and here Silākāla entered the Order (Cv.xxxix.47).