lteng rgyas 'od srung

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[[lteng rgyas 'od srung [sh'akya thub pa'i nye 'khor gnas brtan 'od srung gcen gcung gsum nang gi bgres pa de mu stegs pa'i grub mtha' dor nas sangs rgyas sh'akya thub pa'i zhabs la gtugs te nyan thos su gyur pa] [IW]

Uruvilva Kashyapa, important monk follower of the Buddha [RY]

lteng rgyas 'od srung [IW]

Uruvilvākāśyapa (उरुविल्वाकाश्यप) or Urubilvākāśyapa is the name of a famous monk disciple of the Buddha. He was a Jaṭila from Urubilvā (or Uruvilvā) who was converted by the Buddha, as mentioned in the 2nd century Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra chapter 36. The same year as his enlightenment, the Buddha went to Urubilvā to convert the thousand Jaṭilas, fire worshippers, led by Uruvilvākāśyapa, a venerable old man aged one hundred and twenty years, and his two brothers, Nadī- and Gatākāśyapa. To impress these heretics, the Buddha performed no less than eighteen miracles, beginning with the taming of a venomous snake. Finally convinced of not having attained sainthood (arhattva) and that he did not even know the Path, Uruvilvākāśyapa asked to be received into the Buddhist order and his five hundred disciples made the same request. The Buddha agreed and the newly converted threw their garments of hide and their religious objects into the river in order to put on the Dharma robe. (Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra) [Erick Tsiknopoulos]