84000 Glossary of Terms

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བཟང་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

  • བཟང་པོ།

  • བཟང་ལྡན།
  • bzang po
  • bzang ldan
  • bhadrika
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Publications: 8
Translation by Robert Miller
  • Bhadrika
  • བཟང་ལྡན།
  • bzang ldan
  • bhadrika
Definition in this text:

One of the five excellent 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.

Translation by Fumi Yao
  • Bhadrika
  • བཟང་ལྡན།
  • bzang ldan
  • bhadrika
Definition in this text:

A disciple of the Buddha.

Translation by Dr. Karen Liljenberg
  • Bhadrika
  • བཟང་ལྡན།
  • bzang ldan
  • bhadrika
Definition in this text:

One of the first five disciples of the Buddha.

Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
  • Bhadrika
  • བཟང་པོ།
  • bzang po
  • bhadrika
Definition in this text:

One of the monks attending this teaching in Śrāvastī, at Jeta Grove. He was one of the five companions who joined Prince Siddhārtha while practicing austerities and attended his first turning of the wheel of Dharma at the Deer Park, after the Buddha’s awakening.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Bhadrika
  • བཟང་པོ།
  • bzang po
  • bhadrika
Definition in this text:

One of the five companions of Śākyamuni in asceticism, who abandoned him when he renounced asceticism. Later they became the Buddha’s first five pupils, with Bhadrika the second of them to become his follower.

Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Bhadrika
  • བཟང་ལྡན།
  • bzang ldan
  • bhadrika
Definition in this text:

One of the first five disciples of the Buddha.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical
  • Bhadrika
  • བཟང་པོ།
  • bzang po
  • bhadrika
Definition in this text:

One of the śrāvakas attending the delivery of the MMK; one of the eight great śrāvakas.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Bhadrika
  • བཟང་པོ།
  • bzang po
  • bhadrika
  • 婆帝利迦
Definition in this text:

One of the five ascetic companions of Siddhārtha, who abandoned him when he renounced asceticism. When those five later became the Buddha’s first disciples, Bhadrika was the second of them to convert.