Examples of using Devadatta in English and their translations into German
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Sākha 1. A deer, a previous birth of Devadatta.
The function of Devadatta is similar to that of Samana Prana.
A setthiputta of Rājagaha, a former birth of Devadatta.
Once the Bodhisatta and Devadatta were both born as monkeys.
Mahādhanaka. A setthi of Benares identified with Devadatta.
Devadatta persisted:"How is the evidence of necessity ascertained?
Sákha 2. A setthiputta of Rájagaha, a former birth of Devadatta.
Devadatta, one of the Buddha's cousins, plotted to take over the Sangha, and ended up causing a schism.
The story was related in reference to a report that Devadatta and Kokālika were going about singing each other's praises.
There he preached the Udāna Sutta in answer to a question by Ananda,as to how the Buddha knew of the unregenerate wickedness of Devadatta.
At that time the youngprince Bodhi was the marauding king, Devadatta was Piṅgiya, and I myself was the world-famed teacher.
The name under which Devadatta, having suffered for five parts of a kappa in purgatory, will become Pacceka Buddha.
If we ask how it is that the Buddha saw everybody without these categories,then we need to consider the example of the Buddha's cousin Devadatta.
Seven years before Buddha passed away, his jealous cousin Devadatta plotted to take Buddha's place as head of the order.
Devadatta was Bhaddakaccanā's daughter, and it has been suggested that Devadatta's enmity against the Buddha was for reasons similar to her father's.
Iii.176-7 says that when the Buddha went away from home Ānanda wished to join him, but his mother was unwilling,because his brother, Devadatta, had already gone away.
Name given to the conspiracy into which Devadatta and Ajātasattu entered, to have archers shoot at the Buddha and so kill him J.i.141; vi.130f.; DA.i.154.
The two schisms began from different motives, with both sides in Kosambī thinking thatthey were following the Dhamma and Vinaya, whereas Devadatta knew that he was not.
When, for instance, Devadatta entered there, his body became one hundred leagues in height, his head, as far as the outer ear, entered into an iron skull;
The two schisms were also accomplished in different ways- unilaterally in the Kosambī case, bilaterally in Devadatta's- and resolved in different ways as well, with a full reconciliation in the Kosambī case and only a partial one in Devadatta's.
The ascetic was Devadatta, the lizard Kisāgotamī, the tiger Moggallāna, the lion Sāriputta, the teacher Mahā Kassapa, and the partridge the Bodhisatta.
Lord Kṛṣṇa blew His conchshell, called Pāñcajanya;Arjuna blew his, the Devadatta; and Bhīma, the voracious eater and performer of herculean tasks, blew his terrific conchshell, called Pauṇḍra.
Devadatta did create such a schism, because the group that broke off and followed him harbored extreme ill will toward Buddha's monastic community, and criticized them severely.
This is not the first time,Brethren," said he,"that Devadatta has proved an ingrate; he was just the same in bygone days also, and he has never known my virtues.
Devadatta tried to convince Buddha to impose several additional rules of discipline for the monks, such as having them live in forests, sleep only under trees, not enter the homes of laypeople, wear only rags and not accept gifts of cloth from them.
One day the brothers began to talk about it in the Hall of Truth."Friend, Devadatta and Kokālika go about praising each other for virtues which they haven't got, and so getting food.
This story the Master told while dwelling in Jetavana, how Devadatta was swallowed up in the earth. They gathered in the Hall of Truth to talk:"Friend, Devadatta fell at enmity with the Tathāgata, and was swallowed up in the earth." The Master entering asked what they were talking of as they sat there.
Buddhaghosa says(SNA.ii.473; AA.ii.850; SA.i.167)that this Kokālika was a brahmin and a pupil of Devadatta, and that he was called Mahā Kokālika to distinguish him from another Kokālika who was similarly called Cūla Kokālika see Kokālika 2.
At about the same time, Buddha's cousin, Devadatta, who had become Ajatasattu's teacher, tried to seize control of Buddha's monastic order.
When the Master had ended this discourse, after ṣaying"It is not only now that Devadatta is so, but in former days also he would not acknowledge a kindness which I showed him," he identified the Birth:"Devadatta was the Monkey then, and the brahmin was I myself.