Glossary
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The Voice of the Silence
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The Singalese word for Arhat.
Rathapāla (Sk.) B. [II 11]
One of the priests who is said to have accompanied the Buddha on his journey to Devaloka (a kind of mythical paradise). See S. Hardy, M.B., p. 313.
A text (Sūtra) together with a commentary-glossary (Sanne) narrating the legend of Rathapāla. For the episode of the encounter of Rathapāla with his father whom he treats as a “householder” when the latter tries to tempt him with material goods and to keep him in his old home, see S. Hardy, E.M., p. 38 and 60.
The Tibetan word for Red-Cap is Sha-Mar (from sha: a headgear and mar: red). This title has often been given non-specifically to the monks of the non-reformed Schools (or those partly reformed) – the Sakyapa, Karmapa, Kagyudpa, etc. and, above all, to those of the Nyingmapa, the oldest sect founded by Padmasambhava, the magician-yogī of the 8th century C.E. There is no necessary identity between the words Shamar and Dugpa.
