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ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ། | Glossary of Terms
ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
sha ra dwa 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
Name of an elder and senior disciple of Buddha Śākyamuni, sometimes contracted as Śāriputra.
- Śāradvatīputra
- ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
- sha ra dwa ti’i bu
- Śāradvatīputra
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
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
An elder monk in the Buddha’s retinue, known for his pure observance of discipline and unparalleled knowledge of the teachings.
- Śāradvatīputra
- ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
- sha ra dwa ti’i bu
- Śāradvatīputra
More widely known as Śāriputra—the contracted version of his name—he was one of the Buddha’s foremost hearer disciples. Renowned for unparalleled knowledge of the teachings.
- Śāradvatīputra
- ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
- sha ra dwa ti’i bu
- Śāradvatīputra
One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, known for his pure observance of discipline.
- Śāradvatīputra
- ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
- sha ra dwa ti’i bu
- Śāradvatīputra
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
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
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
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
One of the two closest disciples of the Buddha, known for his pure observance of discipline.
- Śāradvatīputra
- ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
- sha ra dwa ti’i bu
- Śāradvatīputra
One of the closest disciples of the Buddha, renowned for his pure observance of discipline. Also known as Śāriputra.
- Śāradvatīputra
- ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
- sha ra dwa ti’i bu
- Śāradvatīputra
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
Also known as Śāriputra. Along with Maudgalyāyana, he was one of the Buddha Śākyamuni’s two main bhikṣu disciples, renowned for his wisdom and pure observance of discipline. His father, Tiṣya, named him Śāriputra (Śārikā’s Son) to honor Śāriputra’s mother Śārikā.
- Śāradvatīputra
- ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
- sha ra dwa ti’i bu
- Śāradvatīputra
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
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- Śāradvatīputra
- ཤ་ར་དྭ་ཏིའི་བུ།
- sha ra dwa ti’i bu
- Śāradvatīputra
“Son of Śāradvatī,” another name of Śāriputra.