Makuta Cetiya, Makutacetiya, Makuṭacetiya: 3 definitions
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Makuta Cetiya means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
A monument erected by Sakka on the summit of Sineru, enshrining a lock of hair cut off by Dipankara Buddha, when he renounced the world and became a monk. BuA.68.
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).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
makuṭacetiya (မကုဋစေတိယ) [(na) (န)]—
[makuṭa+cetiya]
[မကုဋ+စေတိယ]
[Pali to Burmese]
makuṭacetiya—
(Burmese text): မကုဋစေတီ။ (ယင်းမကုဋစေတီသည် ဒီပင်္ကရာဘုရားလောင်းတော်၏ ဆံတော်နှင့် မကိုဋ်သရဖူကို သိကြားမင်းက ရွှေပန်းတောင်းဖြင့်ခံယူ၍ မြင်းမိုရ်တော်ထိပ်၌ ဌာပနာပြီး တည်ထားသော စေတီတော်ဖြစ်သည်။ အမြင့် ၃-ယူဇနာ ရှိ၏။ ဣန္ဒနီလာမြကျောက်ရတနာဖြင့် ပြီး၏။ ဗုဒ္ဓဝံ၊ဋ္ဌ။၁ဝ၆။
(Auto-Translation): Makuta Stupa. (This Makuta Stupa is a stupa that contains the hair relic and the crown of the Lord Buddha, which was received by the noble king with a golden offering and is erected on the head of the royal horse. It has a height of 3 yojanas and is made of gemstones from the Indanila land. Buddha Vamsa, Dhatu 106.)
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
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