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གྲགས་འཛིན། | Glossary of Terms

  • གྲགས་འཛིན་མ།

  • གྲགས་འཛིན།
  • སྒྲགས་འཛིན་མ།
  • grags ’dzin
  • grags ’dzin ma
  • sgrags ’dzin ma
  • yaśodharā
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Daughter of Śākya Daṇḍadhara (more commonly Daṇḍapāṇi), sister of Iṣudhara and Aniruddha, she was the wife of Prince Siddhārtha and mother of his only child, Rāhula. After Prince Siddhārtha left his kingdom and attained awakening as the Buddha, she became his disciple and one of the first women to be ordained as a bhikṣunī. She attained the level of an arhat, a worthy one, endowed with the six superknowledges.

  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན།
  • grags ’dzin
  • yaśodharā
Definition in this text:

The wife of Prince Siddhartha and mother of his son Rāhula. She took up an ascetic lifestyle after his departure from the palace, and later, when women were finally allowed to go forth, became a nun under Mahāprajāpatī. She attained the level of arhat and was declared foremost among nuns possessing the superknowledges.

  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན་མ།
  • grags ’dzin ma
  • yaśodharā
  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན་མ།
  • grags ’dzin ma
  • yaśodharā
  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན།
  • grags ’dzin
  • yaśodharā
Definition in this text:

Buddha Śākyamuni’s wife (and the mother of his son Rāhula) who became a bhikṣuṇī.

  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན།
  • གྲགས་འཛིན་མ།
  • grags ’dzin
  • grags ’dzin ma
  • yaśodharā
  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན།
  • grags ’dzin
  • yaśodharā
Definition in this text:

Buddha Śākyamuni’s wife who became a nun (bhikṣunī) and his disciple.

  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན་མ།
  • grags ’dzin ma
  • yaśodharā
Definition in this text:

Daughter of Śākya Daṇḍadhara (more commonly Daṇḍapāṇi), sister of Iṣudhara and Aniruddha, she was a spouse of Gautama who, along with Gopā, spurned the advances of Devadatta and subjected him to brutal humiliation.

  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན་མ།
  • grags ’dzin ma
  • yaśodharā
Definition in this text:

The principal wife of Prince Siddhartha, prior to his leaving his kingdom and attaining awakening as the Buddha.

  • Yaśodharā
  • སྒྲགས་འཛིན་མ།
  • sgrags ’dzin ma
  • yaśodharā
  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན་མ།
  • grags ’dzin ma
  • yaśodharā
Definition in this text:

One of the female śrāvakas attending the delivery of the MMK.

  • Yaśodharā
  • གྲགས་འཛིན་མ།
  • grags ’dzin ma
  • yaśodharā