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Assaji ( Pali: Assaji, Sanskrit: Aśvajit) was one of the first five arahants of Gautama Buddha. He is known for his conversion of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief male disciples, counterparts to the nuns Khema and Uppalavanna, the chief female disciples. He lived in what is now Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in northern India ...
Assaji. The fifth of the Pañcavaggiya monks. When the Buddha preached the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, he was the last in whom dawned the eye of Truth, and the Buddha had to discourse to him and to Mahānāma while their three colleagues went for alms (Vin.i.13. He became a sotāpanna on the fourth day of the quarter, AA.i.84).
Aśvajit (P. Assaji; T. Rta thul རྟ་ཐུལ་; C. Ashuoshi) was one of the five ascetics who practiced austerities with Gautama Buddha before his enlightenment. He became one of the Buddha's first five disciples. He is known for his conversion of Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief male disciples.
Assaji. Assaji (Pali:Assaji, Sanskrit:Asvajit) was one of the first five arahants of the Buddha. He is known for his conversion of Sariputta and Moggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples. He lived in what is now Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in northern India, during the 6th century BCE. Assaji was born into a brahmin family.
Then Ven. Assaji, arising early in the morning, taking his robe and bowl, entered Rajagaha for alms: gracious in the way he approached and departed, looked forward and behind, drew in and stretched out his arm; his eyes downcast, his every movement consummate. Sariputta the wanderer saw Ven. Assaji going for alms in Rajagaha: gracious... his eyes downcast, his every movement consummate.
Venerable Assaji contemplated: “These wandering ascetics hold views which are antagonistic to the sāsana; and I must show this wandering ascetic Upatissa clearly the deep and subtle nature of the Teaching” and gave this reply: “Friend, I am but a junior member of the Order, having come into the sāsana quite recently.
Assaji was one of the pañcavaggiya bhikkhus. The names of the bhikkhus who formed a group of five (pañcavaggiya) were Konḍañña, Bhaddiya, Vappa, Mahānāma, and Assaji. Koṇḍañña was the youngest of the eight brahmans who had gone to Suddhodana’s house on the name-giving ceremony day to see the signs on the body of the child born ...
