Pāli Dictionary

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  • A monk who developed insight and Arahantship after reflecting on the suffering of a doe bound by love and hunger for her fawn, and who then admonished a fellow monk into the same attainment.

Thag 1.109
  • A monk, probably of Sri Lanka, under whom a novice attained Arahantship after seeing a king on an elephant and contemplating the body’s impurity.

  • A novice, nephew of Mahānāga Thera, who made a heavenly palace tremble with his psychic power on the very day he became an Arahant.

  • A cross-reference to two other monks of the same name, Bhāgineyya Saṅgharakkhita and Mahā-Saṅgharakkhita.

  • A Sri Lankan monk and pupil of Sāriputta and Medhaṅkara who authored several works on Pali grammar, rhetoric, and prosody.

  • An elder appointed head of the Order by King Vijayabāhu III, entrusted with the Tooth Relic and the education of the heir to the throne.

  • An eminent monk entrusted by King Kittisirirājasīha with restoring the Majjhapalli monastery.

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