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Tissā2

Person

Une nonne Arahant de la famille Sakya de Kapilavatthu, qui servit comme dame de la cour du Bodhisatta, renonça au monde avec Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, et atteignit l’état d’Arahant en entendant un vers prononcé par le Bouddha dans un rayon de lumière.

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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