Purna
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Purna (Skt. Pūrṇa; P. Puṇṇa; T. gang po གང་པོ་; C. fulouna 富樓那), was an arhat and one of the ten principal disciples of Gautama Buddha. He was foremost in the skill of teaching the dharma.
Purna was also known as:
- Pūrṇa Maitrāyaṇīputra (Sanskrit) (T. byams ma’i bu gang po; C. 富樓那彌多羅尼子)[1]
- Puṇṇa Mantāṇīputta (Pali)[2]
The Dharmachakra Translation Committee states:
- Pūrṇa Maitrāyaṇīputra [was] a brahmin from Kapilavastu, ordained by his uncle Ājñātakauṇḍinya when the latter returned to Kapilavastu soon after the Buddha’s first teaching; he is one of six or more figures with the name Pūrṇa in the Buddhist discourses and is described as the foremost in explaining the doctrine. He is also regarded as one of the ten main disciples of the Buddha, especially noted for his eloquence.[1]
Purna is the main interlocuter in The Questions of Pūrṇa (Pūrṇaparipṛcchā), a discourse found in the Tibetan and Chinese canons.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2
Dharmachakra Translation Committee (2024), The Questions of Pūrṇa, "Introduction", 84000 Reading Room
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Pūrṇa
Further reading
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1997). Punna Sutta: To Punna (SN 35.88). Available on-line at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn35/sn35.088.than.html.
- Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Pūrṇa
Puṇṇa Mantānīputta, Wikipedia
