Citta (disciple)
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Upāsaka Citta (
Anāgāmi or Non-Returner
.
In an
jhanas.[2]
Lay Dhamma Teacher
The Buddha considered Upāsaka Citta to be the most learned and lucid of all the lay Dhamma teachers. After becoming the Buddha's lay disciple, he shared and explained the Buddha's teaching to the other citizens of the town, and converted five hundred of them, and on one occasion took all of the new converts to Savatthi to visit the Buddha. The discourses in the Tipitaka preached to and by Citta indicate his profound grasp of the most subtle aspects of the Buddha Dhamma and indeed later he became enlightened as an
Anāgāmi or Non-Returner.[3]
Model for Lay Disciples
In the
Mahāmoggallāna. They are the model standards are set for lay people and monks. Of the ten instructive discourses contained in the Citta Saṃyutta, three of the discourses deal with the questions posed by Citta to the bhikkhus, three of them are queries put to Citta by the bhikkhus, and four refer to personal events.[4]
Notes
- ISBN 978-955-24-0280-7.
- ^ Johannes Bronkhorst, The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1986, page 83.
- ^ "The Buddha and His Disciples by Ven S. Dhammika". Buddhanet.net. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ dhammatalks.net/Books13/Hellmuth_Hecker-Lives_of_the_Disciples-1.pdf