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Mahādhammarakkhita
- 1. Mahādhammarakkhita Thera
An arahant. He lived at Asokārāma. Once, Tissa, brother
of Asoka, saw him seated at the foot of a tree meditating, fanned by a Nāga
with a sāla branch. Tissa was later ordained by him. Mhv.v.161, 167;
ThigA.i.505; but see Sp.i.561, according to which it was Yonaka
Mahādhammarakhita who ordained Tissa; also SA.iii.125.
After the Third Council he was sent as messenger of
Buddhism to Mahārattha. There he preached the Mahānārada Kassapa Jātaka, and
eighty four thousand people were converted, thirteen thousand joining the
Order. Mhv.xii.5, 37; Dpv. viii.8; Sp.i.67.
- 2. Mahādhammarakkhita. An ancient Commentator,
generally called Tipitaka Mahādhammarakkhita, who is quoted several times in
the Commentaries. He was a contemporary of Dīghabhānaka Abhaya. E.g.,
DhSA.267, 278, 286f.; Vibhā.81; PSA.405.
- 3. Mahādhammarakkhita. An Elder of Tulādhāra
vihāra in Rohana. Tipitaka Cūlābhaya went to him from the Mahāvihāra in order
to learn from him the Doctrine. At the end of the teaching, Dhammarakkhita
asked Abhaya to give him a subject for meditation, for, he said, Abhaya had a
greater knowledge than he of that matter. The subject was given, and soon
after Dhammarakkhita attained Nibbāna, and died while preaching at the
Lohapāsāda. Vsm.96f.
- 4. Mahādhammarakkhita. See Yonaka
Mahādhammarakkhita.
 
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