摩哂陀

Readings

Pinyin: Móshěntuó

Wade-Giles: Mo-shen-t'o

Hangul: 마신다

Korean MC: Masinda

Korean MR: Masinda

Katakana: マヒンダ

Katakana: マシンダ

Hepburn: Mahinda

Hepburn: Mashinda

Ma sẩn đà

Mahinda

• Or Mahendra, son of King Aśoka of the Maurya dynasty of ancient India, accredited with the transmission of Buddhism to Sri Lanka. Also transliterated as 摩訶因陀羅, translated as 大帝. He became a monk under Moggaliputta-tissa at the age of twenty, after which he traveled to Śrī Lanka as a missionary. Later he asked his younger sister, Saṃghamittā, to work with him, and together they firmly established Buddhism in Śrī Lanka. He is said to have transplanted a sapling of the Bodhi Tree from India. He died in Śrī Lanka. (Pāli Mahinda). 〔善見律毘婆沙 T 1462.24.681c8; 經律異相 T 2121.53.25c26〕 [resp. cmuller; source(s): Yokoi, Soothill, JEBD]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 1002

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 1001

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 1176b

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 192a/214

Fo Guang Dictionary, 6072

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)4736b,5a,3045a

Soothill, 435

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