Kala Buddharakkhita, Kāḷa Buddharakkhita: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesKala Kala Buddharakkhita
A Thera of Ceylon, an arahant. He belonged to a ministers family and was born in a village near Dakkhinagiri vihara. When he came of age, he entered the Order, learned the whole of the Tipitaka, and, on going with a large concourse to see his teacher, was asked to give up his following and go into solitude to practise meditation. He went to the Vatakasitapabbata vihara, practised meditation and became an arahant. While living in the Cetiyapabbata vihara, he was once worshipping at the Kantaka cetiya and was seated at the foot of a Kalatimabara tree. (Legend says on the night of the new moon, thus completing the circle of Kalas). One of the monks asked him a question on the Kalakarama Sutta and the Elder preached a sermon based on the sutta. King Tissa (probably Saddha Tissa), who was in the vicinity, came to listen to the sermon, which lasted throughout the night; the king remained standing the whole time. Greatly pleased, the king, at the end of the sermon, offered the sovereignty of Ceylon to the monk.
It is said that the Elder had been the Nigantha Maha Saccaka in the time of the Buddha, and that the Buddha had preached to him the Maha Saccaka Sutta, not because he could understand it then, but because the Buddha knew that it would help him to rise to eminence in this last life as Kala Buddharakkhita. MA.i.469f
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Rakkhita, Buddha, Kala.
Full-text: Kantakacetiya, Kalaka Sutta, Saccaka, Dakkhinagiri, Saddha Tissa.
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