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Rakkhita2

Person

第三次结集后被派往婆那婆私国弘法的长老,他悬浮空中讲说《无始相应》,度化数万人皈依。

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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