Pāli Dictionary

Mallaka

Person

一位長老,因見耕地而生起禪相,擴展此相修得五種禪定,進而修觀證得阿羅漢果。

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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