84000 Glossary of Terms

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མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན། | Glossary of Terms

  • མགོན་མེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་བྱིན།

  • མགོན་མེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་སྦྱིན་པ།
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • སྐྱབས་མྱེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • mgon med pa la zas sbyin pa
  • skyabs myed pa la zas sbyin
  • mgon med pa la zas byin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • anāthapiṇḍika
  • anathapiṇḍada
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A wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, famous for his generosity to the poor, who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought Prince Jeta’s Grove (Skt. Jetavana), to be the Buddha’s first monastery, a place where the monks could stay during the monsoon.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada AD
Pali:
  • anāthapiṇḍika
Definition in this text:

Anāthapiṇḍada was a wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, famous for his generosity to the poor, who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought the Jeta Grove from Prince Jeta and built there a monastery for the Buddha.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada AD
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • སྐྱབས་མྱེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • skyabs myed pa la zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

Benefactor of the Buddha.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, famous for his generosity to the poor, who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought Jetavana from Prince Jeta and built there a monastery for the Buddha. He is also well known by the Pāli rendering of his name, Anāthapiṇḍika.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy merchant from the city of Śrāvastī who was a great patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni and the saṅgha. He is better known in the West by the alternative form Anāthapiṇḍika.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

Anāthapiṇḍada was a wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought the land from Prince Jeta to serve as the Buddha’s first monastery.

  • Anātha­piṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • 給孤獨
Definition in this text:

A principal benefactor of the Buddha; he was the wealthy merchant who acquired Prince Jeta’s Grove, i.e., the Jetavana, and donated it to the Buddhist community.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anathapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A famous benefactor of the Buddha.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་སྦྱིན་པ།
  • mgon med pa la zas sbyin pa
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • anāthapiṇḍika
Definition in this text:

Anāthapiṇḍada was a wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, who became a patron of Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought the Jeta Park there to be the Buddha’s first monastery. He is better known in the West by the alternative Pāli form Anāthapiṇḍika.

  • Anātha­piṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy layman and famous benefactor of the Buddha who purchased the Jetavana and donated it to the Buddhist community.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

Anāthapiṇḍada was a wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, famous for his generosity to the poor, who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought the Jeta Grove from Prince Jeta, and built there a monastery for the Buddha. He is better known in the West by the alternative Pāli form Anāthapiṇḍika.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

Wealthy lay disciple of the Buddha who offered him his park in Śrāvastī, the Jeta Grove.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, famous for his generosity to the poor, who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought Prince Jeta’s Grove (Skt. Jetavana), to be the Buddha’s first monastery, a place where the monks could stay during the monsoon. Although his Sanskrit name is Anāthapiṇḍada, he is better known in the West by the Pāli form of his name, Anāthapiṇḍika. Both mean “the one who gives food to the destitute.”

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy layman and famous benefactor of the Buddha who purchased the Jetavana and donated it to the Buddhist community. He is better known in the West by the alternative Pāli form Anāthapiṇḍika.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

Anāthapiṇḍada was a wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, famous for his generosity to the poor, who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought the Jeta Grove from Prince Jeta and built there a monastery for the Buddha. He is also well known by the Pali rendering of his name, Anāthapiṇḍika.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • 給孤獨
Definition in this text:

An important benefactor of the Buddha who donated the Jeta Grove outside of Śrāvastī to the Buddhist community.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

An important benefactor of the Buddha who purchased a plot of land on the outskirts of Śrāvastī that belonged to Prince Jeta and then donated it to the Buddhist community.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A principal benefactor of the Buddha; he was the wealthy banker from Śrāvastī who acquired the grove of Prince Jeta, i.e., Jeta Grove, and donated it to the Buddhist community.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy householder of Śrāvastī renowned for his generosity. He spent a small fortune to purchase the grove of Prince Jeta, built a monastery there, and offered both to the Buddha.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

Anāthapiṇḍada was a wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought the Jeta Grove there and offered it to the Buddha and the monastic community as a residence during the summer rainy season.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy householder of Śrāvastī renowned for his generosity. He spent a small fortune to purchase the grove of Prince Jeta, built a monastery there, and offered both to the Buddha.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

An important benefactor of the Buddha Śākyamuni.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy householder of Śrāvastī renowned for his generosity. He spent a small fortune to purchase the grove of Prince Jeta, built a monastery there, and offered both to the Buddha.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada AO
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy merchant of Śrāvastī who became an early follower of the Buddha and an important donor; the spelling in Pali texts is Anāthapiṇḍika.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

Anāthapiṇḍada was a wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought the land from Prince Jeta to serve as the Buddha’s first monastery.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

An important benefactor of the Buddha who donated the Jeta Grove outside of Śrāvastī to the Buddhist community.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy layman and famous benefactor of the Buddha who purchased the Jetavana and donated it to the Buddhist community. He is better known in the West by the alternative Pāli form Anāthapiṇḍika.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་བྱིན།
  • mgon med pa la zas byin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་བྱིན།
  • mgon med pa la zas byin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy householder of Śrāvastī renowned for his generosity, he spent a small fortune to purchase the garden of Prince Jeta, built a monastery there, and offered both to the Buddha.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy patron-householder from Śrāvastī who donated Jetavana to the Buddha Śākyamuni and his monastic community.

  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • Anāthapiṇḍada
  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
Definition in this text:

A wealthy merchant in the town of Śrāvastī, who became a patron of the Buddha Śākyamuni. He bought Prince Jeta’s Park, the Jetavana, to be the Buddha’s first monastery, a place where the monks could stay during the monsoon. Although his Sanskrit name is Anāthapiṇḍada, he is better known in the West by the alternative form Anāthapiṇḍika that is predominant in the Pāli canon. Both mean “the one who gives food to the destitute.”