Phagguna

Person

Un moine qui interrogea le Bouddha sur la reconnaissance des Bouddhas passés par les sens, et qui, réconforté par le Bouddha durant sa dernière maladie, atteignit l’état d’Arahant avant de mourir.

A monk. In the Saṃyuttanikāya (S.iv.52) he is represented as asking the Buddha if it were possible, by means of any of the senses, to recognise and proclaim the past Buddhas. The Buddha replies in the negative. It is probably the same monk who is mentioned in the Aṅguttaranikāya (A.iii.379 ff) as having been visited during his illness by the Buddha on the suggestion of Ānanda. The Buddha found Phagguna in bed and grievously ill, and he talked to him and comforted him. Phagguna died soon after, having attained Arahantship.