Pāli Dictionary

suppiya1

suprefixpiyrootasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

pī5love; please

general

  • name of a wandering ascetic whose debate with his pupil occasioned the Brahmajāla Sutta

  • DN 1

    tatra su'daṃ suppiyo paribbājako anekapariyāyena buddhassa avaṇṇaṃ bhāsati, dhammassa avaṇṇaṃ bhāsati, saṅghassa avaṇṇaṃ bhāsati

suppiya2

Part of speech

noun · masculine

monastic

  • name of an arahant monk, born in a family of cemetery-keepers and converted by Thera Sopāka

  • Thag 1.32

    itthaṃ sudaṃ āyasmā suppiyo thero gāthaṃ abhāsitthā'ti.

  • Thag 1.40

    gahvaratīriyo suppiyo, sopāko c'eva posiyo, sāmaññakāni kumāputto, kumāputtasahāyako, gavampati tissatthero, vaḍḍhamāno mahāyaso'ti.

Encyclopedia

7 entries

Suppiya
Person

  • A wanderer whose discussion with his pupil Brahmadatta about the Buddha’s virtues, doctrine, and Order prompted the teaching of the Brahmajāla Sutta; he was himself a follower of Sañcaya Belaṭṭhiputta.

Suppiya2
Person

  • One of the chief lay supporters of the past Buddha Siddhattha.

Suppiya3
Person

  • A cemetery keeper’s son of Sāvatthi who, converted by his friend the elder Sopāka, joined the Order and attained Arahantship despite a low-caste birth attributed to past pride.

Thag 1.32
Suppiya4
Other

  • A cross-reference entry pointing to the entry on Suppiyā.

Suppiyā
Personapproximate

  • The name of the inhabitants of Rājagaha in the time of Kassapa Buddha, when the mountain Vepulla was known by another name, Supassa.

Suppiyā2
Personapproximate

  • A devoted laywoman of Bārāṇasī who cut flesh from her own thigh to make broth for a sick monk when no meat could be found, an act of devotion after which the Buddha forbade monks from eating human flesh and declared her foremost among women who tend the sick.

Suppiyā3
Otherapproximate

  • One of the five daughters of the third Okkāka and his queen Hatthā.

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