Evolving Portrayals of Sāriputta and Moggallāna:
Psychic Potency vis-à-vis Wisdom and Concentration

By Tse-fu Kuan

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26 pages

The Buddhist tradition has tended to associate Moggallāna with concentration or serenity, and Sāriputta with wisdom or insight, and to characterize the former figure along with his outstanding faculty as inferior to the latter.

About: Early Indian Buddhism Characters in the EBTs

Published in 2021 in “Illuminating the Dharma: Buddhist Studies in Honour of Venerable Professor KL Dhammajoti” (Toshiichi Endo ed.) by The Centre of Buddhist Studies at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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    title={{E}volving {P}ortrayals of {S}āriputta and {M}oggallāna: {P}sychic {P}otency vis-à-vis {W}isdom and {C}oncentration},
    author={Tse-fu Kuan},
    booktitle={Illuminating the Dharma: Buddhist Studies in Honour of Venerable Professor KL Dhammajoti},
    editor={Toshiichi Endo},
    publisher={The Centre of Buddhist Studies at The University of Hong Kong},
    address={Hong Kong},
    year=2021,
    pages={268--293},
    keywords={indian, characters, tranquility-and-insight, iddhi},
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    url={https://www.academia.edu/45182093/Evolving_Portrayals_of_Sāriputta_and_Moggallāna_Psychic_Potency_vis_à_vis_Wisdom_and_Concentration}
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