A leading disciple (aggasāvaka) of Kassapa Buddha. He was the Buddha’s brother and, having renounced the household, became an ascetic. On hearing that Kassapa had become Buddha, he visited him but expressed great disappointment on discovering that he ate flesh, which smelt bad (āmagandha). The Buddha taught him that the bad smalle (āmagandha) was not flesh, but the mental defilements (kilesa) that corrupt the heart, and he taught him the Āmagandha Sutta. Tissa immediately entered the Order and became a leading disciple.⁶ Tissa’s father was born as Subhadda in this age.⁷