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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesPresident of the Third Council. In his penultimate birth he was a Brahma, called Tissa, and consented to be born in the world of men at the urgent request of the arahants who held the Second Council, in order to prevent the downfall of the Buddhas religion. He was born in the home of the brahmin Moggali of Pataliputta. Siggava and Candavajji had been entrusted with the task of converting him. From the time of Tissas birth, therefore, for seven years, Siggava went daily to the house of Moggali, but not even one word of welcome did he receive. In the eighth year someone said to him, Go further on. As he went out he met Moggali, and, on being asked whether he had received anything at his house, he said he had. Moggali inquired at home and the next day charged Siggava with lying. But hearing Siggavas explanation, he was greatly pleased and thereafter constantly offered Siggava hospitality at his house. One day, young Tissa, who was thoroughly proficient in the Vedas, was much annoyed at finding Siggava occupying his seat and spoke to him harshly. But Siggava started to talk to him and asked him a question from the Cittayamaka. Tissa could not answer it, and, in order to learn the Buddhas teachings, he entered the Order under Siggava, becoming a sotapanna soon after. Siggava instructed him in the Vinaya and Candavajji in the Sutta and Abhidhamma Pitakas. In due course he attained arahantship and became the acknowledged leader of the monks at Pataliputta (Mhv.v.95ff., 131ff.; Dpv.v.55ff.; Sp.i.35 41).
At the festival of dedication of the Asokarama and the other viharas built by Asoka, Moggaliputta Tissa informed Asoka, in answer to a question, that one becomes a kinsman of the Buddhas religion only by letting ones son or daughter enter the Order. Acting on this suggestion, Asoka had both his children ordained. Moggaliputta acted as Mahindas upajjhaya (Mhv.v.191ff.; Sp.i.50f). Later, because of the great gains which accrued to the monks through Asokas patronage of the Buddhas religion, the Order became corrupt, and Moggaliputta committed the monks to the charge of Mahinda, and, for seven years, lived in solitary retreat on the Ahoganga pabbata. From there Asoka sent for him to solve his doubts as to what measure of sin belonged to him owing to the murder of the monks by his minister. But Moggaliputta would not come until persuaded that his services were needed to befriend the religion. He traveled by boat to Pataliputta, and was met at the landing place by the king who helped him out by supporting him on his arm.
According to Sp.i.58, the king had a dream on the preceding night which the soothsayers interpreted to mean that a great ascetic (samananaga) would touch his right hand. As the Thera touched the kings hand the attendants were about to kill him, for to do this was a crime punishable by death. The king,
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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Full-text: Ahoganga, Third Buddhist Council, Moggali, Thupavamsa, Canndavajji, Ahogangapabbata, Theravada, Kashmira, Siggava, Asokarama, Kathavatthu, Sabbakama, Gandhara, Tittira Jataka.
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