拘鄰若佛的首座女弟子之一。

One of the chief female disciples of the Buddha Koṇḍañña.

迦毗羅衛釋迦族出身的一位阿羅漢比丘尼，曾為菩薩宮廷侍女，隨大愛道喬答彌出家，聞佛陀於光中說偈而證阿羅漢果。

An Arahant nun of a Sakyan family of Kapilavatthu who, after serving as a lady of the Bodhisatta’s court, renounced the world with Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī and attained Arahantship on hearing a verse spoken by the Buddha in a ray of glory.

一位阿羅漢比丘尼，其事蹟與前一位 Tissā 相似。

An Arahant nun whose story closely parallels that of the preceding Tissā.

一位在家女信眾，與其母 Tissāyamātā 一同列入虔誠女信眾之名單。

A female lay disciple listed, together with her mother Tissāyamātā, among a group of pious women devotees.

Mattā 的一位情敵，其事蹟見於 Mattā 條。

A rival of Mattā, whose story is told under that name.

斯里蘭卡一位精通律藏的比丘尼。

A nun of Sri Lanka noted for her expertise in the Vinaya.

Kittaggabodhi 之女，嫁與 Sena 二世之弟 Mahinda，其女亦名 Saṅghā。

A daughter of Kittaggabodhi who married Mahinda, brother of King Sena II, and whose own daughter was also named Saṅghā.

迦葉四世之女，為優陀耶二世之王后。

A daughter of King Kassapa IV who became queen of Udaya II.

後來成為迦葉五世之人的女兒，迦葉四世之妻。

A daughter of the man who became Kassapa V and wife of King Kassapa IV.

Muṇḍagutta 之妻，為佈施而賣子買牛，牛所產之濃酥引來一位大臣嫉恨沒收，國王查明真相後重賞夫婦二人並懲罰該大臣。

The wife of Muṇḍagutta who, wishing to give alms, sold their son to buy a cow whose rich ghee provoked a minister’s jealousy, until the king, learning the truth, rewarded the couple and punished the minister.

指 Tissa 佛，即過去二十四佛中的第十七位。

A reference to the Buddha Tissa, the seventeenth of the twenty-four Buddhas preceding Gotama.

《未來史》所載未來諸佛中的第九位。

The ninth of the future Buddhas listed in the Anāgatavaṃsa.

毗婆尸佛兩位上首弟子之一，為王室大祭司之子，是該佛初轉法輪時的聽法者之一。

One of the two chief disciples of the Buddha Vipassī, son of the royal chief priest, to whom that Buddha taught his first discourse.

燃燈佛兩位上首弟子之一。

One of the two chief disciples of the Buddha Dīpaṅkara.

迦葉佛的上首弟子之一，也是迦葉佛的胞弟，聞知真正的「腥臭」在於內心煩惱而非食肉之後出家追隨。

A leading disciple of the Buddha Kassapa and that Buddha’s own brother, who joined the Order after being taught that true ‘foulness’ lies in mental defilements rather than in eating meat.

一位比丘轉生為具大神通的梵天，轉生後不久大目犍連前來拜訪，向他請教關於必得解脫之諸天與梵天的命運。

A monk reborn as a Brahmā of great psychic power, visited soon after his rebirth by Mahā-Moggallāna and questioned about the fate of devas and Brahmas assured of salvation.

比丘 Metteyya 之友，兄長去世後一度還俗，後經 Metteyya 帶回，聞佛陀宣說《帝須彌勒經》而證得阿羅漢果。

A friend of the monk Metteyya who briefly returned to lay life after his brother’s death but, brought back by Metteyya, was taught the Tissametteyya Sutta by the Buddha and attained Arahantship.

以族姓「彌勒」著稱的比丘之本名，即 Tissa（7）之友。

The personal name of the monk known by his clan name Metteyya, friend of Tissa (7).

舍衛城的一位長老，其妹將他獲贈的粗布紡成細軟袈裟，織成當夜他便去世，因貪戀此衣而轉生為衣中的一隻蝨子，佛陀因此囑咐將分衣一事延後七日以示憐憫。

An elder of Sāvatthi who, after his sister had a coarse gift of cloth spun into a fine robe for him, died the very night it was finished and was reborn as a louse in the robe until the Buddha had its division delayed for seven days out of compassion.

一位比丘，在聞知佛陀即將入滅、眾僧驚惶失措之際，獨自冷靜決意先證阿羅漢果，此舉起初被誤解為冷漠，實則獲佛陀讚許。

A monk who, unlike his excited fellows on hearing the Buddha would soon die, remained calmly resolved to attain Arahantship first, a determination the Buddha praised though it was initially mistaken for indifference.

王舍城一戶婆羅門家庭出身的阿羅漢，本為教授五百弟子的吠陀導師，因深受佛陀威儀感召而出家，終證得阿羅漢果。

An Arahant of a brahmin family in Rājagaha who, having taught the Vedas to five hundred pupils, was so struck by the Buddha’s majesty that he joined the Order and attained Arahantship.

Roruva 國王，與頻婆娑羅王互通友誼卻素未謀面，因收到後者所贈描繪佛陀生平的畫卷及刻有緣起法的金牌而深受觸動，遂棄位出家，終證得阿羅漢果。

A king of Roruva and unseen ally of Bimbisāra who, deeply moved by a painted depiction of the Buddha’s life and an inscription of the Law of Dependent Origination sent by Bimbisāra, renounced his throne to become a monk and attain Arahantship.

佛陀姑母 Amitā 之子，出家後一度驕傲、易怒且懈怠，佛陀曾親自喚醒午睡中的他並宣說《帝須經》，教化其克服諸病而證得阿羅漢果。

An Arahant, son of the Buddha’s paternal aunt Amitā, who overcame his early pride, irritability, and laziness in the Order after the Buddha personally roused him from a nap and taught him the Tissa Sutta.

看門人之子出身的一位沙彌，隨木匠一同出家後總嫌供養菲薄並誇耀家世富裕，佛陀藉《陶工奴本生》揭示他前生亦有相似習氣。

A novice, son of a gatekeeper, who joined the Order with some carpenters and constantly complained of offerings while boasting of his supposedly wealthy family, a trait the Buddha traced to a similar past life told in the Kaṭāhaka Jātaka.

人稱憍賞彌住帝須的一位比丘，不慎以扇擊傷其年幼沙彌的眼睛，深感懊悔，然沙彌（已證阿羅漢）告訴他無需愧疚，帝須聞佛陀開示後自己也證得阿羅漢果。

A monk known as Kosambivāsī Tissa who accidentally blinded his young novice with a fan; deeply remorseful, he was told by the boy, already an Arahant, that there was nothing to forgive, and Tissa himself attained Arahantship on hearing the Buddha’s teaching on the matter.

人稱 Asubhakammika-Tissa 的一位比丘，註釋書中舉為善友典範，與其相交有助於修不淨觀以斷除貪慾。

A monk known as Asubhakammika-Tissa, cited in the commentaries as an exemplary good friend whose company aids the meditation on bodily repulsiveness in overcoming lust.

一位書法名家，即便去世後仍以其精湛的書藝為人所憶念。

A master calligrapher remembered even after his death for his fine writing.

Padumuttara 佛的主要在家護法之一。

One of the chief lay patrons of the Buddha Padumuttara.

人稱 Āraddhavipassaka-Tissa 的一位比丘，某日見蓮花隨日出綻放，恰聞一名婢女歌詠死亡無常，頓悟而修觀證得阿羅漢果。

A monk known as Āraddhavipassaka-Tissa who developed insight and attained Arahantship after a slave-girl’s song about mortality, heard just as he watched a lotus open at sunrise, struck him with the truth of impermanence.

Paṇḍukābhaya 的叔父，在其兄長 Abhaya 退位後代掌斯里蘭卡國政，後被 Paṇḍukābhaya 所殺。

An uncle of Paṇḍukābhaya who administered the Sri Lankan kingdom after his elder brother Abhaya relinquished the government, and was eventually killed by Paṇḍukābhaya.

Kalyāṇi 國王，Vihāradevī 之父，因誤信一位無辜阿羅漢與王后有染而將其處死，觸怒諸天引發海水淹沒國土，最終須將親生女兒以金船送入海中方能平息災禍。

A king of Kalyāṇi and father of Vihāradevī who, suspecting an innocent Arahant of an affair involving his queen, had him executed, provoking the sea to flood the land until the king’s own daughter was sent out in a golden boat to appease it.

在杜達伽摩尼逃避 Saddhā Tissa 追擊期間隨侍在側的一位大臣，曾將自己的食物獻給國王，國王又轉供養予一位比丘。

A minister who remained loyal to Duṭṭhagāmaṇī during his flight from Saddhā Tissa, giving him his own food, which was in turn offered to a monk.

Piyaṅgudīpa 的一位長老，曾在杜達伽摩尼逃避其兄弟追擊期間接受國王的供養。

A thera of Piyaṅgudīpa who accepted the meal offered by Duṭṭhagāmaṇī while the king was fleeing from his brother.

Rohaṇa 的一位婆羅門青年，曾起兵反抗 Vaṭṭagāmaṇī 王，後受王命轉而迎戰入侵的 Damiḷā 軍，結果戰敗。

A brahmin youth of Rohaṇa who rose against King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī, was urged instead to fight the invading Damiḷā, and was defeated by them.

Hambugallaka 的一位博學比丘，曾協助調解 Vaṭṭagāmaṇī 王與不滿的大臣之間的矛盾，後獲大臣們所建多座寺院的供養。

A learned monk of Hambugallaka who helped reconcile King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī with his discontented ministers and was later given several monasteries built by them.

Vaṭṭagāmaṇī 王的一位大臣，建有 Uttaratissārāma 寺。

A minister of King Vaṭṭagāmaṇī who built the Uttaratissārāma monastery.

Mahācūḷa 之子，斯里蘭卡國王，為其妻阿奴羅（Anulā）王后所毒殺。

A son of Mahācūḷa and king of Sri Lanka, poisoned by his own wife, Queen Anulā.

阿奴羅王后的情夫，本為一名樵夫，短暫在位期間建有浴池，最終同樣遭王后毒殺。

A paramour of Queen Anulā, originally a wood-carrier, who reigned briefly, built a bathing reservoir, and was likewise poisoned by her.

Dakkhiṇārāma 的一位比丘，摩訶斯那王為其興建祇陀林寺。

A monk of the Dakkhiṇārāma for whom King Mahāsena built the Jetavana monastery.

Mahādāṭhika-Mahānāga 王的幼子，人稱 Kanirajānu Tissa，為國王 Āmaṇḍagāmaṇī-Abhaya 之弟。

A younger son of King Mahādāṭhika-Mahānāga, known as Kanirajānu Tissa, and brother of King Āmaṇḍagāmaṇī-Abhaya.

國王 Khallātanāga 的侄子，曾與兄弟合謀弒君，事敗後自盡。

A nephew of King Khallātanāga who, together with his brothers, conspired to kill the king and, when the plot failed, committed suicide.

一位鐵匠，為 Sāliya 的前生，他佈施野豬肉時曾有八位知名長老應聲現身接受供養。

A blacksmith and a former incarnation of Sāliya, whose gift of boar’s meat as alms was miraculously accepted by eight named elders who appeared to receive it.

Lonagiri 的一位比丘，自修持六種和敬法後其鉢中乳粥能奇蹟般供飽五十位空鉢而歸的朝聖比丘，後於一次慶典中執意求取兩件珍貴披肩，儘管國王暗中阻撓仍如願獲得。

A monk of Lonagiri whose bowl of milk-rice miraculously fed fifty hungry pilgrim monks after he began practising the Six Principles of Cordiality, and who later obtained two coveted shawls at a festival despite the king’s attempt to prevent it.

人稱 Kuṭumbiyaputta-Tissa 的一位長老，捨棄鉅額家財林居修行，其弟媳僱兇前來殺害時，他自擊斷大腿骨以證明絕不逃逸，當夜以忍受劇痛之力證得阿羅漢果。

Known as Kuṭumbiyaputta-Tissa, a thera who renounced vast wealth for forest life and, when hired ruffians came to kill him at his sister-in-law’s bidding, broke his own thigh bone to prove he would not flee, attaining Arahantship overnight through his endurance of the pain.

Sāketa 的一位長老，本以「沒時間」為由拒答問題，被人一句「難道你有時間等死嗎」問得羞愧，此後一次雨安居中熱忱教導各級僧眾。

A thera of Sāketa who, shamed by the challenge ‘can you find time to die?’ after refusing to answer questions for lack of time, went on to teach monks of every level with great fervour during a rains retreat.

Koṭapabbata 的一位比丘。

A monk of Koṭapabbata.

《黑本生》註疏中提及的一位國王親信，曾在盛怒之下殺害妻子及全部隨從，最終自盡。

A king’s confidant mentioned in the scholiast to the Kaṇha Jātaka, who in a fit of rage killed his wife and his entire retinue before finally killing himself.

Pañcaggalalena 的一位沙彌，因被一名鐵匠之女沐浴後的歌聲所吸引而失去了騰空飛行的神通。

A novice of Pañcaggalalena who lost his power of flight through the air after being captivated by the singing of a blacksmith’s daughter emerging from her bath.

Tissa-Mahāvihāra 的一位沙彌，因厭倦修行生活，在 Cittalapabbata 費力自建一處石窟，當夜即證得阿羅漢果，翌日圓寂，後人於其舍利處建塔紀念。

A novice of the Tissa-Mahāvihāra who, distressed by his distaste for monastic life, built himself a cave at Cittalapabbata with great effort, attained Arahantship there in the night, and died the following day; a stupa was later raised over his relics.

Saddhā Tissa 王的一位侍從，國王以處死相威脅試探他，他堅決不肯為御膳而殺雉雞，以此證明操守，後轉而從獵人處取得已死的雉雞呈上。

An attendant of King Saddhā Tissa who, tested by a threat of execution, refused to kill pheasants for the royal table, satisfying the king of his integrity before obtaining already-dead birds from a fowler instead.

Mahāgāma 的 Tissa 寺一位沙彌，其事與 Kuṇḍalā 的故事相關。

A novice of the Tissa monastery in Mahāgāma, connected with the story of Kuṇḍalā.

一位沙彌，去世後轉生為 Nāgamahāvihāra 附近一株樹上的樹神。

A novice who, after death, became a tree-deity near the Nāgamahāvihāra.

一位比丘，其弟媳派人前來殺害，他自斷雙腿以示絕不逃跑，獲准延緩一夜後即證得阿羅漢果。

A monk who, when his brother’s wife sent men to kill him, broke his own thigh bones to prove he would not run away and, after being granted one night’s reprieve, attained Arahantship.

過去二十四佛中的第十七位，生於 Khemaka，於阿輸那樹下證悟成佛，上首弟子為 Brahmadeva 與 Udaya。

The seventeenth of the twenty-four Buddhas preceding Gotama, born in Khemaka, who attained Buddhahood under an asana tree and whose chief disciples were Brahmadeva and Udaya.