Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Trapusa and Bhallika
This chapter describes Trapusa and Bhallika located on page 140 of volume Volume 3 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
Volume 3 begins with a new perspective on the evolution of tantras, based on Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Indonesian, and Simhalese sources. It further shows that the deification of kings and colossi of the Avatamsaka in Afghanistan, China and Japan are a crucial stage in tantra development.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Trapusa and Bhallika. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Amaravati Art in the Context of Andhra Archaeology [by Sreyashi Ray chowdhuri]
Offering of food by Trapusa and Bhallika. [Full title: Depiction of scenes from the life of Buddha: Offering of food by Trapusa and Bhallika] Story:- Towards the end of the seventh week after Enlightenment, Buddha met two merchants Trapusa [Trapusha] and Bhallika. During this time Buddha was seated under the Rajayatana tree. They stopped their carts in order to make an offering of food to Buddha. But Buddha did not have any bowl to receive the food....
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Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
According to a Burmese tradition Tappasu and Bhallika are represented as the inhabitants of the city of Okkalaba (Utkala), who after arriving at the port of Adzeitta (Tamralipta) went to Soowama (suhma), and then they proceeded towards Rajagriha and met the blessed one at Uruvela near Gaya....
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Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh (early history) [by Prakash Narayan]
Tapassu and Bhallika from Utkala are called traders (vanija) and they are embodied as the first lay disciples. In the early canonical Pali texts the dialogues spoken by the Buddha deal with disputes with numerous brahmanas concerning the usefulness of the sacrifice of animal and the validity of the element of heredity in the caste system, and finally his point or view is appreciated and he finds success in convincing them....
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[Cultural Horizons of India: index]
[About the Author (Lokesh Chandra)]
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[Volume 2 (summary)]
[Volume 3 (summary)]
[Volume 4 (summary)]
[Volume 5 (summary)]
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