Bimbisara: Difference between revisions

From Rigpa Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(2 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
'''Bimbisara''' (Skt. ''Bimbisāra''; Tib. གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ་,[[Wyl.]] ''gzugs can snying po'') was the king of [[Magadha]] and chief royal patron of the [[Buddha Shakyamuni|Buddha]] during his lifetime, who reigned from his capital city of [[Rajagriha]]. Bimbisara met a tragic death at the hands of his son [[Ajatashatru]] who was persuaded to murder his father by [[Devadatta]], the Buddha’s evil cousin.
'''Bimbisara''' (Skt. ''Bimbisāra''; Tib. [[གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''gzugs can snying po'') was the king of [[Magadha]] and chief royal patron of the [[Buddha Shakyamuni|Buddha]] during his lifetime, who reigned from his capital city of [[Rajagriha]]. Bimbisara met a tragic death at the hands of his son [[Ajatashatru]] who was persuaded to murder his father by [[Devadatta]], the Buddha’s evil cousin.
 
==External Links==
{{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh216.html| Eliminating Ajātaśatru’s Remorse }}


[[Category: Historical Figures]]
[[Category: Historical Figures]]
[[Category: Kings]]
[[Category: Kings]]
[[Category: Buddha's Contemporaries]]
[[Category: Buddha's Contemporaries]]

Latest revision as of 08:30, 13 September 2023

Bimbisara (Skt. Bimbisāra; Tib. གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་པོ་, Wyl. gzugs can snying po) was the king of Magadha and chief royal patron of the Buddha during his lifetime, who reigned from his capital city of Rajagriha. Bimbisara met a tragic death at the hands of his son Ajatashatru who was persuaded to murder his father by Devadatta, the Buddha’s evil cousin.

External Links

Eliminating Ajātaśatru’s Remorse