Pāli Dictionary

Dhammadinna3

Person

तिस्स-महा-विहार का एक भिक्षु, जिसने तीर्थयात्रा के दौरान दिव्यदृष्टि से एक गृहस्थ दाता को उसके नियमित खरगोश-मांस दान की पूर्वजन्म की उत्पत्ति बताई

A monk of Tissa-Mahā-vihāra near Talaṅgarapabbata. Once, while on pilgrimage to Nāgadīpa with 500 others, he stopped at Sāgiri-vihāra, and they were looked after by Bahulamassutissa Thera. The next day they went for alms to Puṇṇālakoṭṭhaka, where a resident entertained them to a meal with hare’s flesh. Dhammadinna later asked why Tissa Thera did not admonish his follower on the evils of killing, seeing that there was a heap of bones outside the house. Tissa asked Dhammadinna to do so the next day. This was done; the devotee confessed that he had never killed a hare, but in his house there was never any want of hare’s flesh, and he did not know why. Dhammadinna, with his divine-eye, revealed to him that in the time of Padumuttara Buddha he had given alms with hare’s flesh. Ras.ii.128 f.

All entries named Dhammadinna

Found an error in the dictionary?