གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- བཟོ་སྦྱངས་གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- བི་མ་བི་སཱ་ར།
- རྒྱལ་པོ་འབི་ས་ར།
- gzugs can snying po
- bzo sbyangs gzugs can snying po
- rgyal po ’bi sa ra
- bi ma bi sA ra
- bimbisāra
- śreṇya bimbisāra
- śreṇiya bimbisāra
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The king of Magadha and a great patron of the Buddha. His birth coincided with the Buddha’s, and his father, King Mahāpadma, named him “Essence of Gold” after mistakenly attributing the brilliant light that marked the Buddha’s birth to the birth of his son by Queen Bimbī (“Goldie”). Accounts of Bimbisāra’s youth and life can be found in The Chapter on Going Forth (Toh 1-1, Pravrajyāvastu).
King Śreṇya Bimbisāra first met with the Buddha early on, when the latter was the wandering mendicant known as Gautama. Impressed by his conduct, Bimbisāra offered to take Gautama into his court, but Gautama refused, and Bimbisāra wished him success in his quest for awakening and asked him to visit his palace after he had achieved his goal. One account of this episode can be found in the sixteenth chapter of The Play in Full (Toh 95, Lalitavistara). There are other accounts where the two meet earlier on in childhood; several episodes can be found, for example, in The Hundred Deeds (Toh 340, Karmaśataka). Later, after the Buddha’s awakening, Bimbisāra became one of his most famous patrons and donated to the saṅgha the Bamboo Grove, Veṇuvana, at the outskirts of the capital of Magadha, Rājagṛha, where he built residences for the monks. Bimbisāra was imprisoned and killed by his own son, the prince Ajātaśatru, who, influenced by Devadatta, sought to usurp his father’s throne.
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
The king of Magadha and a great patron of Śākyamūni Buddha. His birth coincided with the Buddha’s. His father, mistakenly attributing the brilliant light that marked the Buddha’s birth to the birth of his son by Queen Bimbī (Goldie), named him ‘Essence of Gold.’
- Bimbisāra
- བི་མ་བི་སཱ་ར།
- bi ma bi sA ra
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- 洴沙
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
The account in this sūtra of the conversion of Bimbisāra into a follower of the Buddha’s teachings only after the Buddha and his community were well established at Prince Jeta’s Grove, is somewhat at odds with other, better-known accounts of the Buddha’s relationship with this important and long-lived Magadhan king. The Play in Full (Toh 95, Lalitavistara), for example, narrates their meeting much earlier in the Buddha’s life story. What is clear is that Bimbisāra would become an important royal patron for the early Buddhist community. King Bimbisāra of Magadha was a contemporary of the Buddha Śākyamuni (according to some sources he was born on the same day) whose capital was at Rājagṛha, and he was among the most important royal patrons of the Buddha and his early community. As such, he features frequently in Buddhist literature.
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
King of Magadha who lived at the time of the Buddha Śākyamuni.
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- བཟོ་སྦྱངས་གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- bzo sbyangs gzugs can snying po
- gzugs can snying po
- śreṇiya bimbisāra
- bimbisāra
Also rendered here as “Śreṇiya Bimbisāra.”
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Bimbisāra
- གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- gzugs can snying po
- bimbisāra
- Śreṇya Bimbisāra
- བཟོ་སྦྱངས་གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- bzo sbyangs gzugs can snying po
- śreṇya bimbisāra
- Śreṇya Bimbisāra
- བཟོ་སྦྱངས་གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- bzo sbyangs gzugs can snying po
- śreṇya bimbisāra
The king of Magadha and a great patron of the Buddha. In other sources he is simply called “King Bimbisāra.” There are several accounts of King Śreṇya Bimbisāra’s first meeting with the Buddha, early on when the latter was the wandering mendicant known as Gautama. Impressed by his conduct, Bimbisāra offered to take Gautama into his court, but Gautama refused, and Bimbisāra wished him success in in his quest for enlightenment and asked him to visit his palace after he had achieved his goal. One account of this episode can be found in the sixteenth chapter of The Play in Full (Toh 95, Lalitavistara). There are other accounts where the two meet earlier on in childhood. Later, after the Buddha’s enlightenment, Bimbisāra became one of his most famous patrons and donated to his saṅgha the Kalandakanivāpa Bamboo Grove, which is the setting of the Bhavasaṅkrāntisūtra and many other teachings.
- Śreṇiya Bimbisāra
- བཟོ་སྦྱངས་གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ།
- bzo sbyangs gzugs can snying po
- śreṇiya bimbisāra
See “Bimbisāra.”