Pāli Dictionary

Tissā2

Person

迦毗羅衛釋迦族出身的一位阿羅漢比丘尼,曾為菩薩宮廷侍女,隨大愛道喬答彌出家,聞佛陀於光中說偈而證阿羅漢果。

An Arahant Therī belonging to a Sakyan family of Kapilavatthu. She became a lady of the Bodhisatta’s court, but later renounced the world with Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, and practised insight. One day the Buddha appeared before her in a ray of glory and uttered a stanza, at the conclusion of which she became an Arahant (Thig.4; ThigA.11).

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