Pāli Dictionary

vimalā

viprefixmalrootāsuffix

Part of speech

noun · feminine

Root

mal1汙穢；沾染

monastic

  • 維摩羅（毘末羅）比丘尼，證阿羅漢的長老尼，其偈頌載於《長老尼偈》

  • Vimalā, an arahant bhikkhunī whose verses on the fading of youthful beauty and the peace of liberation are preserved in the Therīgāthā

  • Thig 5.2

    itthaṃ sudaṃ vimalā purāṇagaṇikā therī gāthaṃ abhāsitthā'ti.

vimala1

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 維摩羅，經中記載的數位阿羅漢比丘共用的名字

  • Vimala, name of several arahant monks recorded in the canon

  • Thag 1.50

    sirīvaḍḍho revato thero, sumaṅgalo sānusavhayo, ramaṇīyavihārī ca, samiddhiujjayasañjayā, rāmaṇeyyo ca so thero, vimalo ca raṇañ'jaho'ti.

vimala2

approximate

viprefixmalrootasuffix

Part of speech

adjective

Root

mal1汙穢；沾染

Synonyms

anaṅgaṇa, akammāsa, vītamala, nimmala

Antonyms

samala

general

  • 無垢的；無瑕的；潔淨的

  • stainless; spotless; unblemished; clean, pure

  • Snp 3.6

    bāhitvā sabbapāpakāni, vimalo sādhusamāhito ṭhit'atto, saṃsāram'aticca kevalī so, asito tādi pavuccate sa brahmā.

  • Dhp 413

    candaṃ'va vimalaṃ suddhaṃ, vippasannam'anāvilaṃ, nandībhavaparikkhīṇaṃ, tam'ahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.

doctrine

  • 無垢者；佛陀的尊號之一

  • the Stainless One; the immaculate being — an epithet of the Buddha

  • MN 26

    pāturahosi magadhesu pubbe, dhammo asuddho samalehi cintito, apāpur'etaṃ amatassa dvāraṃ, suṇantu dhammaṃ vimalen'ānubuddhaṃ.

  • MN 56

    dhīrassa vigatamohassa, pabhinnakhīlassa vijitavijayassa, anīghassa susamacittassa, vuddhasīlassa sādhupaññassa, vesamantarassa vimalassa, bhagavato tassa sāvako'ham'asmi

vimala3

approximate

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • 維摩羅，一位辟支佛的名字

  • Vimala, name of a Paccekabuddha (privately awakened buddha)

  • MN 116

    satthā pavattā sarabhaṅgo lomahaṃso, ucc'aṅgamāyo asito anāsavo, manomayo mānacchido ca bandhumā, tadādhimutto vimalo ca ketumā.

Encyclopedia

11 entries

Vimalā
Person

  • 毘舍離城一位名妓之女，曾試圖勾引大目犍連，反遭其訓誡，其後成為在家信女並終證阿羅漢果。

  • The daughter of a courtesan of Vesāli who tried to seduce Mahā-Moggallāna, but was instead rebuked by him, becoming a lay follower and eventually an Arahant.

Thig 5.2
Vimalā2
Person

  • 《維圖羅本生》中的龍女，婆樓那的王后。

  • A Nāga maiden, queen of Varuṇa, in the Vidhura Jātaka.

Vimalā3
Person

  • 毘耶達西佛最後一世為在家人時的妻子。

  • The wife of the Buddha Piyadassī in his last lay life.

Vimalā4
Person

  • 一位龍女，即蓮花上佛時代優波羅色的前生。

  • A Nāga maiden identified as Uppalavaṇṇā in a former life during the time of the Buddha Padumuttara.

Vimala
Otherapproximate

  • 耶舍的四位摯友之一，隨其榜樣出家並證得阿羅漢果。

  • One of the four friends of Yasa who, following his example, joined the Order and attained Arahantship.

Vimala2
Personapproximate

  • 王舍城富家出身，因深受佛陀威儀感動而出家，在憍薩羅一處山洞中禪修時，值涼雨降下而證得阿羅漢果。

  • A member of a rich family in Rājagaha who entered the Order after being deeply moved by the Buddha’s majesty, and attained Arahantship while meditating in a mountain cave in Kosala as a cooling rain fell.

Thag 1.50
Vimala3
Personapproximate

  • 波羅奈的一位婆羅門，隨蘇摩彌多長老出家，在其鼓勵下證得阿羅漢果，惟有記載將二人師徒關係顛倒。

  • A brahmin of Bārāṇasī who entered the Order under Somamitta Thera and, through his encouragement, attained Arahantship, though some accounts reverse their teacher-pupil relationship.

Vimala4
Personapproximate

  • 一位辟支佛。

  • A Pacceka Buddha.

MN 116
Vimala5
Personapproximate

  • 見喜佛出家前所居宮殿之一。

  • One of the palaces occupied by Piyadassī Buddha before his renunciation.

Vimala6
Personapproximate

  • 六十一個劫以前的一位國王，是薩怒長老的前生。

  • A king who lived sixty-one world-cycles ago in a former birth of the elder Sānu.

Vimala7
Personapproximate

  • 二十一個劫以前住在雷奴筏提善見宮的一位國王，是羅睺羅的前生。

  • A king who lived twenty-one world-cycles ago in the palace Suddassana at Reṇuvatī, a former birth of Rāhula.

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