• མེ་བ་རལ་པ་ཅན།
  • me ba ral pa can
  • jaṭila
  • Term
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  • dreadlocked fire-worshipper
  • མེ་བ་རལ་པ་ཅན།
  • me ba ral pa can
  • jaṭila
Definition in this text:

The name by which the Jaṭila ascetic order is known in the Vinaya. Jaṭila were early converts of the Buddha. Many were said to have converted en masse after the Buddha delivered the “Fire Sermon” (Pali Ādittapariyāya Sutta) to Kāśyapa and his followers at Uruvilvā. See the Saṅghabhedavastu (Tib. dge ’dun dbyen gyi gzhi) for the Mūlasarvāstivādin account of their conversion.