Pāli Dictionary

assaji1

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 阿說示（馬勝比丘），五比丘之一，舍利弗的度化師

  • Assaji, name of a monk; one of the first five disciples, Sāriputta’s teacher who converted him to the Buddha’s teaching

  • MN 35

    atha kho āyasmā assaji pubb'aṇhasamayaṃ nivāsetvā pattacīvaram'ādāya vesāliṃ piṇḍāya pāvisi.

assaji2

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 阿說示（六群比丘之一，與馬勝比丘同名而非同一人）

  • Assaji, name of one of the Chabbaggiyā, a group of six ill-disciplined monks (distinct from Assaji Thera)

Encyclopedia

2 entries

Assaji
Person

  • 佛陀最初教化的五比丘中的第五位，他向遊方者舍利弗誦出那首著名的緣起偈，直接促成了舍利弗與目犍連的皈依。

  • The fifth of the five ascetics first taught by the Buddha, whose recitation of a famous verse on dependent origination to the wanderer Sāriputta led directly to the conversion of Sāriputta and Moggallāna.

SN 22.88
Assaji2
Other

  • 與 Punabbasu 同為惹是生非的 Assaji-Punabbasukā 一派的首領，屬惡名昭著的「六群比丘」；同名的一部經記載了佛陀探訪另一位同名比丘 Assaji 的事蹟。

  • A co-leader, with Punabbasu, of the unruly monk faction called the Assaji-Punabbasukā, one of the notorious ‘Group of Six’ monks; a sutta of the same name records the Buddha’s visit to the other monk Assaji.

SN 22.88

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