Mallaka
Person갈아엎은 밭을 보고 명상 표상을 얻어 다섯 가지 선정을 닦고 위빠사나를 통해 아라한과를 증득한 장로.
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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