Vipassi, Vipassī: 5 definitions
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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe nineteenth of the twenty four Buddhas. He was born in the Khema park in Bandhumati, his father being Bandhuma and his mother Bandhumati. He belonged to the Kondanna gotta. For eight thousand years he lived as a householder in three palaces: Nanda, Sunanda and Sirima. His body was eighty cubits in height. His wife was Sutana (v.l. Sudassana) and his son Samavattakkhandha. He left the household in a chariot and practised austerities for eight months. Just before his enlightenment, the daughter of Sudassana setthi gave him milk rice, while a yavapalaka named Sujata gave grass for his seat. His bodhi was a patali tree. He preached his first sermon in Khemamigadaya to his step brother Khandha and his purohitas son Tissa; these two later became his chief disciples. His constant attendant was Asoka; Canda and Candamitta were his chief women disciples. His chief lay patrons were Punabbasummitta and Naga among men, and Sirima and Uttara among women. He died in Sumittarama at the age of eighty thousand, and his relics were enshrined in a thupa seven leagues in height. The Bodhisatta was a Naga king named Atula. (Bu.xx.1ff.; BuA.195f.; D.ii.2ff).
Three reasons are given for the name of this Buddha (BuA.195; cf. DA.ii.454; SA.ii.15): (1) Because he could see as well by night as by day; (2) because he had broad eyes; (3) because he could see clearly after investigation. Vipassi held the uposatha only once in seven years (DhA.iii.236), but on such occasions the whole Sangha was present (Sp.i.186). The construction of a Gandhakuti for Vipassi brought Mendaka great glory in the present age. Mendakas name at the time was Avaroja (DhA.iii.364f). Annakondanna was then known as Culakala, and nine times he gave Vipassi Buddha the first fruits of his fields. DhA.i.81f.
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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Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryvipassi : (aor. of vipassati) saw clearly; had intuition. || vipassī (m.) gifted with insight.
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) vipassi (ဝိပဿိ) [(kri) (ကြိ)]—
[vi+disa+ī]
[ဝိ+ဒိသ+ဤ]
2) vipassī (ဝိပဿီ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[vi+disa+ṇī．(pākata-amū vi+passa+ṇī-hu rāeiea)．ṭī．229．antarantarā nimīlajanitandhakāravirahena visuddhaṃ passatiç vivaṭehi ca akkhīhi passatīti vipassī．viceyya viceyya passatīti vipassī．dī,ṭṭha,2．45．saṃ,ṭṭha,2．19．buddhavaṃ,ṭṭha．277．vividhaṃ passatīti vipassī,vivicca passatīti vā vipassī,vividhe attatthaparatthādibhede atthe passatīti vā vipassī,vividhe vohāraparamatthādibhede passatīti vā vipassī．apa,ṭṭha,2．43．visesaṃ paramatthaṃ nibbānaṃ passatīti vipassī．vividhe satipaṭṭhānādayo sattatiṃsabodhi pakkhiyadhamme passatīti vā vipassī．vividhe anekappakāre bodhaneyyasatte visuṃ visuṃ passatīti．apa,ṭṭha,2．128-9．visesanaç vividhaṃ vā passatīti vipassī．apa,ṭṭha,2．2vava．vipa-sakkatapiṭaka．vipassī-prā．]
[ဝိ+ဒိသ+ဏီ။ (ပါကတဓာန်-အလိုမူ ဝိ+ပဿ+ဏီ-ဟု ထားရာ၏)။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။ ၂၂၉။ အန္တရန္တရာ နိမီလဇနိတန္ဓကာရဝိရဟေန ဝိသုဒ္ဓံ ပဿတိ,ဝိဝဋေဟိ စ အက္ခီဟိ ပဿတီတိ ဝိပဿီ။ ဝိစေယျ ဝိစေယျ ပဿတီတိ ဝိပဿီ။ ဒီ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၄၅။ သံ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၁၉။ ဗုဒ္ဓဝံ၊ဋ္ဌ။၂၇၇။ ဝိဝိဓံ ပဿတီတိ ဝိပဿီ၊ ဝိဝိစ္စ ပဿတီတိ ဝါ ဝိပဿီ၊ ဝိဝိဓေ အတ္တတ္ထပရတ္ထာဒိဘေဒေ အတ္ထေ ပဿတီတိ ဝါ ဝိပဿီ၊ ဝိဝိဓေ ဝေါဟာရပရမတ္ထာဒိဘေဒေ ပဿတီတိ ဝါ ဝိပဿီ။ အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၄၃။ ဝိသေသံ ပရမတ္ထံ နိဗ္ဗာနံ ပဿတီတိ ဝိပဿီ။ ဝိဝိဓေ သတိပဋ္ဌာနာဒယော သတ္တတိံသဗောဓိ ပက္ခိယဓမ္မေ ပဿတီတိ ဝါ ဝိပဿီ။ ဝိဝိဓေ အနေကပ္ပကာရေ ဗောဓနေယျသတ္တေ ဝိသုံ ဝိသုံ ပဿတီတိ။ အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။ ၁၂၈-၉။ ဝိသေသန,ဝိဝိဓံ ဝါ ပဿတီတိ ဝိပဿီ။ အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၂ဝဝ။ ဝိပဂျိန်-သက္ကတပိဋက။ ဝိပဿီ-ပြာ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)1) vipassi—
(Burmese text): (သူ) အနိစ္စအစရှိသော အထူးထူးသော အခြင်းအရာအားဖြင့် ရှုပြီ။
(Auto-Translation): He has already seen something special that is extraordinary and unique.
2) vipassī—
(Burmese text): (၁) (က) ဝိပဿီမြတ်စွာဘုရား။ (ခ) ဝိပဿီဘုရားလောင်း။ (၂) အနိစ္စအစရှိသော အထူးထူးအပြားပြားသော အခြင်းအရာအားဖြင့် ရှုတတ်သော၊ ဝိပဿနာ ရှုတတ်သော။ သူ။ (၃) ဝိပဿီသုတ်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) Vipasana Buddha. (b) Vipasana Deity. (2) The one who can perceive distinct and special conditions that are impermanent, who can see the truths. (3) Vipasana Sutra.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryVipassi (विपस्सि) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Vidarśin.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: I, Disha, Vi, Ni.
Starts with (+1): Vipassanapariyosana, Vipassi Sutta, Vipassibodhisatta, Vipassibuddha, Vipassibuddhakala, Vipassidasabala, Vipassikumara, Vipassimsu, Vipassin, Vipassisam, Vipassisammasambuddha, Vipassissama, Vipassissanti, Vipassissati, Vipassisum, Vipassita, Vipassitabba, Vipassitabbakara, Vipassitum, Vipassitva.
Full-text (+154): Vipassi Sutta, Vipassibuddhakala, Vipassibuddha, Vipassibodhisatta, Vipassisammasambuddha, Kalavipassi, Sumittarama, Ekasankhiya, Samavattakkhandha, Bandhumati, Pharusaphaladayaka, Candamitta, Vidarshin, Mahanta Parivena, Thomadayaka, Kukkura, Paramannadayaka, Suputakapujaka, Pulinapujaka, Padumakesariya.
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Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
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