Mallaka
PersonUn ancien qui développa un signe méditatif à la vue d’un champ labouré, cultiva les cinq absorptions et atteignit l’état d’Arahant par la vision pénétrante.
An elder. As he stood one day looking at a ploughed field a sign arose in him of the size of the field. He enlarged it, induced the five absorptions (jhāna), and, developing insight, became an Arahant (Vism.123).
He is mentioned as consulting Dīghabhāṇaka Abhaya on some problem connected with absorption (jhāna). Vism.265 f.
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