迦叶

(迦葉波) (sa) kāśyapa, 迦攝 (迦攝波) (la) inter alia 'a class of divine beings similar to or equal to (sa) prajāpati'; the father 'of gods, demons, men, fish, reptiles, and all animals'; also 'a constellation'. M.W. It is intp. as 'drinking light', i.e. swallowing sun and moon, but without apparent justification.

(1) One of the seven or ten ancient Indian sages.

(2) Name of a tribe or race.

(3) Kāśyapa Buddha, the third of the five buddhas of the present (sa) kalpa, the sixth of the seven ancient buddhas.

(4) Mahākāśyapa, a brahman of Magadha, who became one of the principal disciples of Śākyamuni, and after his death became leader of the disciples, 'convoked and directed the first synod, whence his title Ārya Sthavira (上坐, lit. chairman) is derived.' Eitel. He is accounted the chief of the ascetics before the enlightenment; the first compiler of the canon and the first patriarch.

(5) There were five Kāśyapas, disciples of the Buddha, Mahā-Kāśyapa, Uruvilā-Kāśyapa, Gayā-Kāśyapa, Nadī-Kāśyapa, and Daśabala-Kāśyapa; the second, third, and fourth are said to have been brothers.

(6) A bodhisattva, whose name heads a chapter in the <Nirvana Sutra>.

(7) 迦葉摩騰 Kāśyapa-Mātaṅga, the monk who with Gobharana, or Dharmarakṣa, i.e. Zhu Falan 竺法蘭, according to Buddhist statements, brought images and scriptures to China with the commissioners sent by Mingdi, arriving in Luoyang A.D. 67.