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བཀཀུ་ལ། | Glossary of Terms
བཀཀུ་ལ།
bakku la
Bakkula
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A disciple of the Buddha.
- Bakkula
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From a wealthy brahmin family, Bakkula is said to have become a monk at the age of eighty and lived to be a hundred and sixty! He is also said to have had two families, because as a baby he was swallowed by a large fish and the family who discovered him alive in the fish’s stomach also claimed him as their child. The Buddha’s foremost pupil in terms of health and longevity. It is also said he could remember many previous lifetimes and was a pupil of the previous buddhas Padmottara, Vipaśyin, and Kāśyapa.
- Bakkula
- བཀཀུ་ལ།
- bakku la
- Bakkula
From a wealthy brahmin family, Bakkula is said to have become a monk at the age of eighty and lived to be a hundred and sixty! He is also said to have had two families, because as a baby he was swallowed by a large fish and the family who discovered him alive in the fish’s stomach also claimed him as their child. The Buddha’s foremost pupil in terms of health and longevity. It is also said he could remember many previous lifetimes and was a pupil of the previous buddhas Padmottara, Vipaśyin, and Kāśyapa.
- Bakkula
- བ་ཀུ་ལ།
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- Bakkula
An arhat disciple of the Buddha and one of the sixteen elders.
- Bakkula
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- Vakula
- Vakkula
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One of the monks attending this teaching in Śrāvastī, at Jeta Grove.
- Vakula
- བ་ཀུ་ལ།
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Śrāvaka arhat; one of the sixteen sthavira arhats (see “elder”).