Pāli Dictionary

Tissa6

Person

大神通力を持つ梵天として転生した比丘で、転生後まもなく大目犍連が訪ねて来て、解脱を約束された諸天や梵天の行方について尋ねた。

A monk who was reborn as a Brahmā with great psychic powers. Mahā-Moggallāna visited him soon after his birth in the Brahma-world and asked him questions about devas and Brahmas who were assured of salvation.⁸ He was evidently the Tissa mentioned as being present at the Mahāsamaya.⁹

DN 20

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