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[[Image: Buddha 5 disc Namo Buddha.jpg|thumb|480px|'''Representation of the first teaching of the Buddha to the retinue of the five first excellent disciples in Namo Buddha in Nepal''']] | [[Image: Buddha 5 disc Namo Buddha.jpg|thumb|480px|'''Representation of the first teaching of the Buddha to the retinue of the five first excellent disciples in Namo Buddha in Nepal''']] | ||
The '''retinue of the five first excellent disciples''' (Skt. ''bhadravargīya''; [[Wyl.]] '' 'khor lnga sde bzang po'') received the first teaching of the [[Buddha]] after he reached [[enlightenment]]. | The '''retinue of the five first excellent disciples''' (Skt. ''bhadravargīya''; Tib. ཁོར་ལྔ་སྡེ་བཟང་པོ་, ''khor nga dé zangpo'', [[Wyl.]] '' 'khor lnga sde bzang po'') received the first teaching of the [[Buddha]] after he reached [[enlightenment]]. | ||
They are: | They are: | ||
*Kondanna | * Kaundinya (Skt. ''Kauṇḍinya''; Pali ''Kondanna''; Tib. ཀུན་ཤེས་ཀཽཎ་ཌི་ཉ་, ''kün shé kaundinya''; Wyl. ''kun shes kauN Di nya''), | ||
*Bhaddiya | * Bhadrika (Skt. ''Bhadrika''; Pali ''Bhaddiya''; Tib. བཟང་ལྡན་, ''zang den''; Wyl. ''bzang ldan'' ), | ||
* | * Vashpa (Skt. ''Vāṣpa'' or ''Dasabala Kasyapa''; Pali ''Vappa''; Tib. རླངས་པ་, ''langpa'' ; Wyl. ''rlang pa''), | ||
*Mahanama | * Mahanaman (Skt. ''Mahānāman'' ; Pali ''Mahanama''; Tib. མིང་ཆེན་, ''ming chen''; Wyl. ''ming chen'') , and | ||
*Assaji | * [[Ashvajit]] (Skt. ''Aśvajit''; Pali ''Assaji''; Tib. རྟ་ཐུལ་, ''ta tul''; Wyl. ''rta thul'' ). | ||
They were [[Shakyamuni]]’s companions of ascetic for six years, until the one who was to become the Buddha abandoned this lifestyle seeing it was not the way. As a result of his backsliding his five companions turned away from him. Seven weeks after his reaching enlightenment the Buddha met them again in [[Sarnath]]. Though they pledged not to speak to him ever again because of what they considered his failure, awed by his presence they went up to him again and received his first teaching on the [[four noble truths]] at [[Deer Park]]. All eventually became [[arhat]]s. | They were [[Shakyamuni]]’s companions of ascetic for six years, until the one who was to become the Buddha abandoned this lifestyle seeing it was not the way. As a result of his backsliding his five companions turned away from him. Seven weeks after his reaching enlightenment the Buddha met them again in [[Sarnath]]. Though they pledged not to speak to him ever again because of what they considered his failure, awed by his presence they went up to him again and received his first teaching on the [[four noble truths]] at [[Deer Park]]. All eventually became [[arhat]]s. | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Buddha Shakyamuni's Disciples]] | ||
[[Category: Historical Masters]] | [[Category: Historical Masters]] | ||
[[Category: Historical Figures]] | |||
[[Category: Enumerations]] | [[Category: Enumerations]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:05-Five]] | ||
Revision as of 17:11, 4 December 2017
The retinue of the five first excellent disciples (Skt. bhadravargīya; Tib. ཁོར་ལྔ་སྡེ་བཟང་པོ་, khor nga dé zangpo, Wyl. 'khor lnga sde bzang po) received the first teaching of the Buddha after he reached enlightenment.
They are:
- Kaundinya (Skt. Kauṇḍinya; Pali Kondanna; Tib. ཀུན་ཤེས་ཀཽཎ་ཌི་ཉ་, kün shé kaundinya; Wyl. kun shes kauN Di nya),
- Bhadrika (Skt. Bhadrika; Pali Bhaddiya; Tib. བཟང་ལྡན་, zang den; Wyl. bzang ldan ),
- Vashpa (Skt. Vāṣpa or Dasabala Kasyapa; Pali Vappa; Tib. རླངས་པ་, langpa ; Wyl. rlang pa),
- Mahanaman (Skt. Mahānāman ; Pali Mahanama; Tib. མིང་ཆེན་, ming chen; Wyl. ming chen) , and
- Ashvajit (Skt. Aśvajit; Pali Assaji; Tib. རྟ་ཐུལ་, ta tul; Wyl. rta thul ).
They were Shakyamuni’s companions of ascetic for six years, until the one who was to become the Buddha abandoned this lifestyle seeing it was not the way. As a result of his backsliding his five companions turned away from him. Seven weeks after his reaching enlightenment the Buddha met them again in Sarnath. Though they pledged not to speak to him ever again because of what they considered his failure, awed by his presence they went up to him again and received his first teaching on the four noble truths at Deer Park. All eventually became arhats.