Pāli Dictionary

Tathāgata

Person

Эпитет, которым Будда называл самого себя, для которого комментарии предлагают восемь и более толкований без единого мнения, отмечая, что термин существовал до буддизма и может применяться к любому архату, а не только к Будде.

An epithet of the Buddha, used by the Buddha in referring to himself.

The Commentaries (DA.i.59-67; AA.i.58-63; MA.39-43; UdA.128 ff, etc.) give eight (sometimes expanded to sixteen) explanations of the word, which shows that there was probably no fixed tradition on the point.

The explanations indicate that the name can be used for any Arahant, and not necessarily only for a Buddha.

The term was evidently pre-Buddhistic, though it has not yet been found in any pre-Buddhistic work.

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