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Nanda3

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憍賞彌的一名牧牛人,人稱 Nanda-Gopālaka,聽聞佛陀以浮木入海為喻說法後出家,不久證得阿羅漢果。

Called Nanda-Gopālaka. He was a cowherd of Kosambī. One day he heard the Buddha teach the monks, using as simile a log of wood how, in certain circumstances, it finds its way direct to the sea and how, similarly, a monk may reach nibbāna. Nanda asked permission to join the Order. However, the Buddha insisted that he should first return the cattle, for which he was responsible, to their owners. Nanda did so, and was then ordained, becoming an Arahant soon after. S.iv.181.

SN 35.241·Goes forth

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