Pāli Dictionary

Rakkhita2

Person

The elder sent to convert the Vanavāsa country after the Third Buddhist Council, who taught the Anamatagga Saṃyutta while floating in mid-air, winning tens of thousands of converts.

He was sent to the Vanavāsa country to convert it at the end of the Third Council. Floating in the air amid the people, he taught the Anamatagga Saṃyutta. Sixty thousand people embraced the new religion and thirty-seven thousand joined the Order, five hundred vihāras being founded. Mhv.xii.4, 31 ff; Dpv.viii.7; Sp.i.63, 66.

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