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ལྷས་བྱིན། | Glossary of Terms

  • ལྷ་བྱིན།

  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • ལྷས་སྦྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • lha sbyin
  • lha byin
  • lhas sbyin
  • devadatta
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Publications: 23
  • Devadatta
  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • lha sbyin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A disciple of the Buddha.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • lha sbyin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of the Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
  • 調達, 提婆達多
Definition in this text:

A cousin of Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. His tradition was still continuing during the first millennium ᴄᴇ. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

The Buddha’s jealous, scheming cousin.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

The Buddha’s cousin and challenger.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of the Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. His tradition was still continuing during the first millennium ᴄᴇ. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of the Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. His tradition was still continuing during the first millennium ᴄᴇ. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of Śākyamuni, who broke with him and established his own community. His tradition was still continuing during the first millennium ᴄᴇ. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes, but not in The White Lotus of the Good Dharma, where he is a teacher of the Buddha in a previous lifetime, and the Buddha prophesies his future buddhahood.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • ལྷ་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • lha sbyin
  • lha byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. His tradition was still continuing during the first millennium ᴄᴇ. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

Cousin, student, and competitor with the Buddha. He is one of the main characters in the stories from the Buddha’s life.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • lha sbyin
  • devadatta
  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of the Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་སྦྱིན།
  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • lhas sbyin
  • lha sbyin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of the Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. His tradition was still continuing during the first millennium ᴄᴇ. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of the Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. His tradition continued into the first millennium ᴄᴇ. He is portrayed as plotting against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • lha sbyin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of the Buddha Śākyamuni, generally portrayed as a jealous rival who committed hostile acts against the Buddha in attempt to usurp his leadership.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of the Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. His tradition was still continuing during the first millennium ᴄᴇ. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lha sbyin
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

The historical Buddha’s cousin, and brother of Ānanda. He became notorious through his schemes to become the Buddha’s successor‍—to the point of attempting to kill the Buddha‍—and through the splitting of the Saṅgha.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • lha sbyin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

The Śākyan cousin of the Buddha traditionally depicted as eager for gain and jealous of the Buddha’s fame.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

A cousin of Buddha Śākyamuni who broke with him and established his own community. He is portrayed as engendering evil schemes against the Buddha and even succeeding in wounding him. He is usually identified with wicked beings in accounts of previous lifetimes.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • ལྷས་སྦྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • lhas sbyin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

The historical Buddha’s cousin and the brother of Ānanda, he became notorious through his schemes to become the Buddha’s successor, which the Buddha vehemently declined, and through his splitting of the saṅgha (saṅgha-bheda).

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷ་སྦྱིན།
  • lha sbyin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

The Buddha’s cousin and fellow Śākya clan member as well as his brother-in-law; brother of Ānanda and Upadhāna. His hostility toward Buddha Śākyamuni is widely recorded in Buddhist literature, and as a result he often represents the paradigm of improper behavior and attitudes toward the Buddha and the Buddhist saṅgha.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

The Buddha’s disloyal cousin.

  • Devadatta
  • ལྷས་བྱིན།
  • lhas byin
  • devadatta
Definition in this text:

The name of the Buddha’s cousin and brother-in-law who defected from the Buddha’s saṅgha, causing the very first schism, and went on to compete against and even attempt to kill the Buddha Śākyamuni.