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    Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana, respectively, Maudgalyāyana being the name of Kolita's clan. After having ordained, all except Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana attain...
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    Sāriputta), and Kolita started being called Maudgalyāyana (Pali: Moggallāna). After Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana ordained, the Buddha declared them his two...
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    himself and ordain as monks under him. Maudgalyāyana attains enlightenment shortly after that. Maudgalyayana and Śāriputra have a deep spiritual friendship...
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    first of the Buddha's two chief male disciples, together with Maudgalyāyana. Maudgalyāyana – born in the village of Kolita in Magadha. He was one of the...
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    records the time when Maudgalyayana achieves abhijñā and uses his newfound powers to search for his deceased parents. Maudgalyayana discovers that his deceased...
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  • dedications to Kṣitigarbha. In certain Chinese Buddhist legends, the arhat Maudgalyayana, known in Chinese as Mùlián (目連), acts as an assistant to Ksitigarbha...
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    Shakyamuni Buddha, Maudgalyayana, achieves Abhijñā and uses his newfound powers to search for his deceased parents. In the end, Maudgalyayana finds his mother...
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    century. The fullest and most important of these Dunhuang texts is "Maudgalyāyana: Transformation Text on Mahamaudgalyāyana Rescuing His Mother from the...
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    Pali: Sāriputta; Sinhala:Seriyuth සැරියුත්); and Moggallana (Sanskrit: Maudgalyāyana; Pali: Moggallāna;Sinhala: Mugalan මුගලන්). Sariputta and Moggallana...
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    Festival. The Buddhist tradition originates from the story of Maha Maudgalyayana (Mokuren), a disciple of the Buddha, who used his supernatural powers...
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    wealthy Tai Yai merchant named Chong Tong Su, it enshrines the relics of Maudgalyāyana, one of the chief disciples of the Lord Buddha. These relics were brought...
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    In Buddhism, the festival of Ullambana is derived from the story of Maudgalyayana and his mother. In Albania, as in a number of Balkan and Eastern European...
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    the passing away of the Buddha and his close disciples Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana, he had become the most influential figure in the Buddhist order. In...
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  • interior holds ashes of Buddha and two Buddhist adherents, Ānanda and Maudgalyayana. Those relics were a gift from Myanmar as thanks for the sect's donations...
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    organisation. The relics of Gautam Buddha's two disciples Sariputra and Maudgalyayana, discovered in the Great Stupa at Sanchi by Sir Alexander Cunningham...
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    The Buddha with Maudgalyayana and Sariputta....
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    Buddha's close followers, such as Śāriputra, Mahākāśyapa, Subhuti, Maudgalyāyana and Buddha's son Rāhula are also predicted to attain their own Pure...
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    retorted that he did not even let his trusted disciples Śāriputra or Maudgalyayana run the Sangha, let alone someone like Devadatta. The Buddha declared...
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    dispersed. The relics of Buddha's noble disciples like Sariputta and Maudgalyāyana, were also preserved enshrined in stupas (as in Sanchi). Sometime in...
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    bodhisattva who vowed never to achieve buddhahood until the hells are emptied Maudgalyayana, one of the Buddha's disciples and the protagonist of the Chinese tale...
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  • Buddha's aunt and foster mother, as well as the first woman to be ordained Maudgalyāyana, one of two chief disciples of the Buddha Nanda, younger half-brother...
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    Festival Ghoul Hungry ghost Jiangshi Jikininki Kanjirottu Yakshi Manes Maudgalyayana Pitrs Segaki Tingsha Wendigo Mason, Walter (2010). Destination Saigon:...
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  • century or the beginning of the 13th. The Blood Bowl Sutra describes how Maudgalyāyana, disciple of the Buddha famous for his supernatural or magical powers...
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  • and hells. Bon Festival Diyu Ghost Festival Hell money Ksitigarbha Maudgalyayana Ox-Head and Horse-Face Ullambana Sutra Yama (East Asia) Thakur, Upendra...
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  • Look up Maudgalyayana, sa:मुद्गल, or hi:मुदगल in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moggallana may refer to: Maudgalyayana, a chief disciple of The Buddha...
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    reference to their dark complexion. In Sri Lanka, the Buddha's disciple Maudgalyāyana is depicted in this way. The nun Utpalavarṇā is similarly implied to...
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    Especially important are his Ten Principal Disciples such as Śāripūtra and Maudgalyāyana as well as female disciples of the Buddha, such as Mahapajapati Gotami...
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    feature the Ten Great Disciples of the Buddha, which include Śāriputra, Maudgalyāyana, Mahākāśyapa, Subhūti, Pūrṇa, Kātyāyana, Aniruddha, Upāli, Rāhula, and...
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  • perhaps combined with images of his close disciples Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana. In Mahāyāna Buddhist temples, more diversity can be found, including...
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    version is that the name could have derived from either sage Mudgala or Maudgalyayana, a disciple of Buddha. A further explanation by General Cunningham is...
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