Pāli Dictionary

Rakkhita2

Person

第三結集後にヴァナヴァーサ国の教化のために遣わされた長老で、空中に浮かびながら『無始相応』を説き、数万人の帰依者を得た。

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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