Aniruddha (disciple)
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Aniruddha (P. Anuruddha; T. ma 'gags pa མ་འགགས་པ་; C. Analü 阿那律) was Gautama Buddha's cousin and one of his ten principal disciples. Aniruddha was foremost among the disciples in the attainment of clairvoyance (divyacakṣus, literally "divine eye").[1]
Notes
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Aniruddha
Futher reading
Anuruddha, Wikipedia
Nyanaponika Thera; Hecker, Hellmuth (2003), Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy (PDF), Wisdom Publications