迦葉

(迦葉, 迦叶)

([lang id =1028]迦葉波) (sa) kāśyapa, [lang id =1028]迦攝 ([lang id =1028]迦攝波) (la) inter alia 'a class of divine beings similar to or equal to (sa) prajāpati'; the father 'of gods, demons, men, fish, reptiles, and all animals'; also 'a constellation'. M.W. It is intp. as 'drinking light', i.e. swallowing sun and moon, but without apparent justification.

(1) One of the seven or ten ancient Indian sages.

(2) Name of a tribe or race.

(3) Kāśyapa Buddha, the third of the five buddhas of the present (sa) kalpa, the sixth of the seven ancient buddhas.

(4) Mahākāśyapa, a brahman of Magadha, who became one of the principal disciples of Śākyamuni, and after his death became leader of the disciples, 'convoked and directed the first synod, whence his title Ārya Sthavira ([lang id =1028]上坐, lit. chairman) is derived.' Eitel. He is accounted the chief of the ascetics before the enlightenment; the first compiler of the canon and the first patriarch.

(5) There were five Kāśyapas, disciples of the Buddha, Mahā-Kāśyapa, Uruvilā-Kāśyapa, Gayā-Kāśyapa, Nadī-Kāśyapa, and Daśabala-Kāśyapa; the second, third, and fourth are said to have been brothers.

(6) A bodhisattva, whose name heads a chapter in the <Nirvana Sutra>.

(7) [lang id =1028]迦葉摩騰 Kāśyapa-Mātaṅga, the monk who with Gobharana, or Dharmarakṣa, i.e. Zhu Falan [lang id =1028]竺法蘭, according to Buddhist statements, brought images and scriptures to China with the commissioners sent by Mingdi, arriving in Luoyang A.D. 67.

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梵語迦葉波， 華言飲光。 謂其身光炎涌， 能映餘物故也。 如來滅後， 集諸大眾， 於畢缽羅窟等處， 結集阿毘曇藏。 （梵語阿毘曇， 華言無比法， 即論也。 ）

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亦稱摩訶迦葉， 為佛十大弟子之一， 以頭陀第一著稱。 身有金光， 映蔽餘光使不現， 故亦名飲光。 在靈山會上， 受佛正法眼藏， 傳佛心印， 為禪宗初祖。 生平修頭陀行， 遵佛囑於雞足山入滅盡定， 待彌勒佛出世時， 傳佛僧伽梨衣。