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And at that time in King Pasenadi's realm there was a bandit named Angulimala: brutal, bloody-handed, devoted to killing & slaying, showing no mercy to living beings. He turned villages into non-villages, towns into non-towns, settled countryside into unsettled countryside.
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Angulimala, the robber and murderer, is one of the best...
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Aṅgulimāla is seen by Buddhists as the "patron saint" of childbirth and is associated with fertility in South and Southeast Asia. Aṅgulimāla's story can be found in numerous sources in Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese. Aṅgulimāla is born Ahiṃsaka.
Oct 20, 2021 · The Angulimala Sutta is a riveting tale from the Buddhist scriptures of a blood-thirsty murderer who lived during the time that the Buddha walked the earth. Terrorizing the realm of King Pasenadi, Angulimala was known for the garland of fingers that he severed from his victims and wore around his neck. “Brutal, bloody-handed, devoted to ...
The Angulimala Sutta records the account of the bandit Angulimala and his meeting with the Buddha. It is an example of how even a bandit and killer was able to transform into a peaceful person through having faith in the Buddha and following the Buddhist path.
At that time in King Pasenadi Kosala’s kingdom there was a robber named Angulimala. He was fierce, with bloody hands, engaged in killing living things without mercy. At that time he destroyed complete villages, complete hamlets and even the state.
Angulimala, the robber and murderer, is one of the best known figures of the Buddhist scriptures, because of his dramatic life story. His conversion to monkhood and later to sainthood was exceptional as he seems to have been the only former criminal to be accepted into the Buddhist monastic order.
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Angulimala Sutta (MN 86) in the Majjhima Nikaya. Angulimala Thera (Thag 16.8) in Theragatha. Both of these texts offer a fairly short description of Angulimala's encounter with the Buddha, and omit much of the background information included in later commentaries. These later additions appear in the following commentaries:
