84000 Glossary of Terms

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མགོན་མེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་བྱིན། | Glossary of Terms

  • མགོན་མེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་བྱིན།

  • མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • སྐྱབས་མྱེད་པ་ལ་ཟས་སྦྱིན།
  • mgon med pa la zas byin
  • mgon med zas sbyin
  • skyabs myed pa la zas sbyin
  • anāthapiṇḍada
  • anathapiṇḍada
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Publications: 17

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 AD
Pali:
  • anāthapiṇḍika
  • 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:

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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 AO
  • 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 AS
This is an addendum to the general definition from the 84000 Glossary:

See also “Prince Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park.”