Sangharakkhita, Saṅgharakkhita: 1 definition
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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names1. Sangharakkhita Thera. He belonged to a wealthy family of Savatthi, and, after joining the Order, lived with another monk in a forest tract, meditating. Near them a doe had given birth in a thicket to a fawn. While she tended it, her love kept her always near it, and she was famished for lack of grass and water. On seeing her, the Thera repeated: Alas! this world suffers, bound in bonds of craving, and with this as his incentive, he developed insight and won arahantship. Seeing his companion cherish wrong thoughts, the Thera admonished him in a verse, (Thag.vs.109) and he, too, became an arahant.
Ninety four kappas ago, Sangharakkhita saw seven Pacceka Buddhas at the foot of a rock and offered them kadamba flowers. Ninety two kappas ago he was king seven times, under the name of Phulla (ThagA.i.216f).
He is evidently identical with Kadambapupphiya of the Apadana. Ap.i.178.
2. Sangharakkhita. A monk, probably of Ceylon. Reference is made (Vsm.194; DhsA.200) to a novice under him who, seeing the king on an elephants back, developed thoughts of the foulness of the body and became an arahant.
3. Sangharakkhita. A novice, nephew of Mahanaga Thera. He became an arahant in the Tonsure hall, and, having discovered that no other monk had made the Vejayanta Pasada tremble, on the very day he became an arahant, the novice, standing on it, tried in vain to shake it. The nymphs within laughed at him. Discomfited, he sought his teacher, who was spending his siesta in a cave on the edge of the ocean, and, having consulted him, he returned to Vejayanta. The nymphs again laughed at him, but he made a resolve that the space on which Vejayanta stood should turn into water. When this happened, he touched the pinnacle of the palace with his toe and it rocked till the nymphs begged for mercy. DA.ii.558f.
4. Sangharakkhita. See also Bhagineyya Sangharakkhita and Maha Sangharakkhita.
5. Sangharakkhita. A Thera of Ceylon. He was a pupil of Sariputta and Medhankara. He wrote several books dealing with grammar, rhetoric, and prosody: the Vuttodaya, Subodhalankara, Susaddasiddhi, Sambandhacinta, Yogavinicchaya and Khuddasikkha tika. P.L.C.197f.; Gv.6. 66. 71; Sis. 69. 70; Svd.1209.
6. Sangharakkhita. An Elder, who lived in the time of Vijayabahu III. The king made him head of the Order and entrusted him with the Tooth Relic and the Alms Bowl; he also gave into his charge the education of the heir to the throne. Cv.lxxxi.76f.
7. Sangharakkhita. An eminent monk in the time of Kittisiririjasiha. He was entrusted by the king with the restoration of the Majjhapalli Vihara. Cv.c.234.
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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Ends with: Maha Sangharakkhita, Urusangharakkhita.
Full-text: Alankaranissaya, Saratthavilasini, Subodhalankara, Maha Sangharakkhita, Susaddasiddhi, Phulla, Kotagerukapasada, Majjhapalli Vihara, Rupadevi, Bhagineyya, Sambandhacinta, Khuddasikkha, Korandaka Vihara, Kadambapupphiya, Vuttodaya, Cittalapabbata, Dakkhinagiri, Ujjeni, Vejayanta, Mahathupa.
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Dhammapada (Illustrated) (by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero)
Verse 37 - The Story of Monk Saṅgharakkhita < [Chapter 3 - Citta Vagga (Mind)]
The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
The Story of Sāmaṇera Sangharakkhita < [Chapter 40 - The Buddha Declared the Seven Factors of Non-Decline for Rulers]
Part 21 - Eight Causes of Earthquakes < [Chapter 40 - The Buddha Declared the Seven Factors of Non-Decline for Rulers]
Sakka’s Question (12): On the Restraint of the Faculties (indriya-saṃvara-sīla) < [Chapter 39 - How the Āṭānāṭiya Paritta came to be Taught]
Vinaya Pitaka (1): Bhikkhu-vibhanga (the analysis of Monks’ rules) (by I. B. Horner)
Visuddhimagga (the pah of purification) (by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu)
General (apprehending the sign) < [Chapter VI - Foulness as a Meditation Subject (Asubha-kammaṭṭhāna-niddesa)]
II. Virtue < [Chapter I - Description of Virtue]
B1. Development of Concentration in Detail: (Continued) < [Chapter III - Taking a Meditation Subject (Kammaṭṭhāna-gahaṇa-niddesa)]