Rajakarama, Rājakārāma: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA monastery in Savatthi, near Jetavana, built by Pasenadi (J.ii.15). It was to the south east of the city, corresponding to Thuparama in Anuradhapura. (MA.ii.1021). It was there that the Nandakovada Sutta was preached (M.iii.271). This was probably the monastery built for nuns by Pasenadi, at the Buddhas suggestion, after the assault on Uppalavanna in Andhavana, referred to in the Dhammapada Commentary (DhA.ii.52).
The Samyutta Commentary, however, gives a different account (SA.iii.218f.; the introductory story of the Bharu Jataka; J.ii.170, gives the same account but omits the statement that the king built a vihara). It states that the heretics, jealous of the Buddha and his popularity, desired to build a monastery for themselves in close proximity to Jetavana, and, in order that he might raise no objections, they presented Pasenadi with one hundred thousand.
When the Buddha discovered their intentions, owing to the great uproar they made while preparing the preliminaries of the building, he sent Ananda to the king, asking to have it stopped. But Pasenadi refused to see him or Sariputta or Moggallana. (It was as a punishment for this discourtesy that he lost the throne before his death.) Thereupon the Buddha went himself. Pasenadi received him and entertained him to a meal, at the end of which the Buddha preached to him the Bharu Jataka (q.v.) on the evils of bribery and of creating an opportunity for virtuous people to quarrel among themselves. Pasenadi was filled with remorse; he had the heretics expelled, and, realizing that he had never built a monastery, proceeded to construct the Rajakarama.
The Samyutta Nikaya (S.v.360ff ) contains several sermons preached by the Buddha at the Rajakarama.
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).
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Starts with: Rajakarama Vagga.
Full-text: Sahassa Sutta, Nandakovada Sutta, Bharu Jataka, Savatthi.
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