Mekhala
PlaceLe lieu de naissance du Bouddha Sumana et le site de son premier discours, également où le Bouddha Maṅgala convertit ses disciples principaux, où le Bouddha Revata enseigna jadis une vaste assemblée, et où le roi Uggata fit ensuite construire un monastère pour le Bouddha Sobhita
The city of birth of Sumana Buddha and the scene of his first discourse to Saraṇa and Bhāvitatta (Bu.v.21; BuA.125 f). It was there that Maṅgala Buddha converted his chief disciples, Sudeva and Dhammasena (BuA.120). Revata Buddha once taught there to an assembly of ten billion people (BuA.134), while later, King Uggata built, for Sobhita Buddha, the Dhammaganārāma in the same city (BuA.139).
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