Phagguna

Person

Một tỳ-khưu từng hỏi đức Phật về việc nhận biết các vị Phật quá khứ qua giác quan, và người được đức Phật an ủi trong cơn bệnh cuối đời, đã chứng quả A-la-hán trước khi qua đời.

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.