84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏའི་བུ།

  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • ཤཱ་ར་དབ༹་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • ཤཱ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • sha ra dwa t’i bu
  • shA ra dva ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
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One of the principal śrāvaka disciples of the Buddha, he was renowned for his discipline and for having been praised by the Buddha as foremost of the wise (often paired with Maudgalyā­yana, who was praised as foremost in the capacity for miraculous powers). His father, Tiṣya, to honor Śāriputra’s mother, Śārikā, named him Śāradvatīputra, or, in its contracted form, Śāriputra, meaning “Śārikā’s Son.”

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
This is an addendum to the general definition from the 84000 Glossary:

Name of an elder and senior disciple of Buddha Śākyamuni, sometimes contracted as Śāriputra. For more details, including his role in this text, see UT22084-026-001-21004. Of the principal śrāvaka arhats, he was declared by the Buddha as “foremost of those with great wisdom.”

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

More widely known as Śāriputra. He was one of the closest disciples of the Buddha, known for his pure discipline and, of the hearer disciples, considered foremost in wisdom.

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, renowned for his pure observance of discipline. Also known as Śāriputra.

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa t’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
  • Śāradvatī­putra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatī­putra
  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatī­putra
  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
  • Śāradvatī­putra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatī­putra
Definition in this text:

Lit. “Son of Śāri,” also known as “Śāriputra,” one of two main male disciples of the Buddha.

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, known for his pure observance of discipline. Also known as Śāriputra.

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤཱ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • shA ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

One of the Buddha’s chief disciples, more commonly known as Śāriputra.

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

Lit. “Son of Śāradvatī or Śāri,” more widely known as Śāriputra‍—the contracted version of his name‍—he was one of the Buddha’s foremost hearer disciples. Renowned for unparalleled wisdom and knowledge of the teachings.

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, renowned for his pure observance of discipline. Also known as Śāriputra.

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤཱ་ར་དབ༹་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • shA ra dva ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

See “Śāriputra.”

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

Along with Maudgalyāyana, Śāradvatīputra (also known as Śāriputra) was one of the two main disciples of the Buddha. He was renowned for his pure discipline and was praised by the Buddha as being foremost in terms of insight.

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatī­putra
  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

More widely known as Śāriputra‍—the contracted version of his name‍—he was one of the Buddha’s foremost hearer disciples. Renowned for his pure discipline and unparalleled knowledge of the teachings.

  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa t’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
  • Śāradvatīputra
  • ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
  • sha ra dwa ti’i bu
  • śāradvatīputra
Definition in this text:

“Son of Śāradvatī,” another name of Śāriputra.