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Moggallāna

Mahāmoggallāna

One of the two chief disciples; foremost in supernormal powers

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Year 2 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 36

Sāriputta and Moggallāna go forth

Year 2 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 36

Moggallāna and then Sāriputta attain arahantship

Year 5 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 39

The “fifth year” as recorded in the Shi'er you jing

Year 5 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 39

The Sangha without offence for five years after the Awakening (Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya)

Year 7 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 41

Piṇḍola takes a bowl by supernormal power, and the Buddha forbids displays of supernormal power

Year 7 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 41

The Buddha teaches his mother in the Heaven of the Thirty-three

Year 7 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 41

Moggallāna goes up to heaven to ask the Buddha to return to the human world

Year 11 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 45

The quarrelling monks of Kosambī come to Sāvatthī to admit their fault

Year 12 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 46

Moggallāna wants to find food by supernormal power, and the Buddha refuses

Year 14 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 48

Rāhula receives full ordination and attains arahantship on hearing a teaching

Year 38 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 72

Devadatta demands to take over the Sangha, and the Buddha refuses

Year 38 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 72

Sāriputta and Moggallāna bring back the five hundred monks

Year 45 after the Awakening · The Buddha at 79 to 80

Sāriputta and Moggallāna pass away before the Buddha

Events known only to fall within a span of years

Ānanda becomes the Buddha's permanent attendant

Events known only to fall within a span of years

The Buddha ceases to recite the rules himself

Events known only to fall within a span of years

The fourth gravest rule laid down after twenty years

Events known only to fall within a span of years

King Bimbisāra escorts the Buddha to the Ganges

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日期怎麼讀

成道第幾年
從佛陀成道開始，每經過一次雨季安居算一年，每一年算到安居結束為止；所有年歲一律依二十九歲出家、三十五歲成道推算。
年份依據
區分經文自己明記、後世註解書記載、先後順序推定及年歲換算。
時間精確度
分別說明確定到日、月、年，或只能放入某幾年之間。
可信度
多派共傳、兩派記載、單派記載與後世補述，表達記載的共傳範圍；與時間及位置是否確定分開閱讀。