Mallaka
Person一位长老,因见耕地而生起禅相,扩展此相修得五种禅定,进而修观证得阿罗汉果。
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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