84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྟ་ཐུལ། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྟ་ཐུལ།

  • rta thul
  • aśvajit
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The son of one of the seven brahmins who predicted that Śākyamuni would become a great king. He was one of the five companions with Śākyamuni in the beginning of his spiritual path, abandoning him when he gave up asceticism, but then becoming one of his first five pupils after his buddhahood. He was the last of the five to attain the realization of a “stream entrant” and became an arhat on hearing the Sūtra on the Characteristics of Selflessness (An­ātma­lakṣaṇa­sūtra), which was not translated into Tibetan. Aśvajit was the one who went to meet Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana so they would become followers of the Buddha.

  • Aśvajit
  • རྟ་ཐུལ།
  • rta thul
  • aśvajit
Definition in this text:

One of the Five Excellent Companions, with whom Siddhārtha Gautama practiced asceticism near the Nairañjanā River and later heard the Buddha first teach the Four Noble Truths at the Deer Park in Sarnath. He was renowned for his pure conduct and holy demeanor so Buddha sent him to attract Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana to the order.

  • Aśvajit
  • རྟ་ཐུལ།
  • rta thul
  • aśvajit
Definition in this text:

One of the first five disciples of the Buddha.

  • Aśvajit
  • རྟ་ཐུལ།
  • rta thul
  • aśvajit
This is an addendum to the general definition from the 84000 Glossary:

One of the monks attending this teaching in Śrāvastī, at Jeta Grove.

  • Aśvajit
  • རྟ་ཐུལ།
  • rta thul
  • aśvajit
Definition in this text:

A disciple of the Buddha. Before the Buddha’s awakening, Aśvajit was one of the five ascetics with whom he practiced.

  • Aśvajit
  • རྟ་ཐུལ།
  • rta thul
  • aśvajit
Definition in this text:

The son of one of the seven brahmins who predicted that Śākyamuni would become a great king. He was one of the five companions with Śākyamuni in the beginning of his spiritual path, abandoning him when he gave up asceticism, but then becoming one of his first five pupils after his buddhahood. He was the last of the five to attain the realization of a “stream entrant” and became an arhat on hearing the Sūtra on the Characteristics of Selflessness (An­ātma­lakṣaṇa­sūtra), which was not translated into Tibetan. Aśvajit was the one who converted Śariputra and Maudgalyāyana into becoming followers of the Buddha.

  • Aśvajit
  • རྟ་ཐུལ།
  • rta thul
  • aśvajit
Definition in this text:

One of the five ascetics, the companions of the Buddha during his early practice of austerities.

  • Aśvajit
  • རྟ་ཐུལ།
  • rta thul
  • aśvajit
Definition in this text:

One of the five ascetics who became the first disciples of the Buddha.

  • Aśvajit
  • རྟ་ཐུལ།
  • rta thul
  • aśvajit AD
  • 阿說侍多
Definition in this text:

One of the five companions with whom Siddhārtha Gautama practiced asceticism near the Nairañjanā River and who later heard the Buddha first teach the four noble truths at the Deer Park in Sarnath. He was renowned for his pure conduct and holy demeanor, so the Buddha sent him to attract Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana to the order.

  • Aśvajit
  • རྟ་ཐུལ།
  • rta thul
  • aśvajit