Monday, February 8, 2021

Maha-Moggallana (Đức Mục Kiền Liên) _By Hellmuth Hecker

 Maha-Moggallana

by

Hellmuth Hecker

© 1994

Contents

1. His Youth

2. The Years of Wandering and Spiritual Search

3. Finding the Teaching

4. The Struggle for the Realization of the Teaching

5. The Most Excellent Pair of Disciples

6. The activities of the Chief Disciples in the Order

7. Moggallana's Magical Powers

8. Moggallana's Previous Lives

9. The Last Days of Moggallana

10. The Death of Maha Moggallana

Notes


Homage to him... to that bhikkhu who, Brahma-like, can see in a moment's flash the thousandfold universe before his eyes; who, master of magic powers, can also see in the flow of time the gods' arising and their death.

— Theragatha (Verses of the Elders), verse 1181.