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Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One Day
This festival is also known as Fourfold Assembly or Magha Puja Day.
Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One Day is the second most important festival. It is a celebration in honour of the Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One. For some Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One refers only to The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One . It is a chance for people to reaffirm their commitment to Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One practices and traditions. Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One Day commemorates the spontaneous gathering of 1,250 awakened True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One (arahants), to hear the Awakened One preach at Veluvana Vihara.
Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One
Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One:
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On the conventional (sammati) level, this term denotes the communities of Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One; on the ideal (ariya) level, it denotes those followers of the Awakened One, lay or ordained, who have attained at least stream-entry (see sotapanna), the first of the transcendent paths (see magga) culminating in nibbana. Recently, particularly in the West, the term “” Community of The True Followers of The Path shown by The Awakened One has been popularly adapted to mean the wider sense of “community of followers on the path,” although this usage finds no basis in the Pali Canon. The term “parisa” may be more appropriate for this much broader meaning. |