“Thus have I heard: One time the Blessed One was staying at Sāvatthī in the Jeta Grove, in Anāthapiṇḍika’s Monastery …” Numerous discourses of the Buddha begin with these words, and hence the name of that great lay devotee, Anāthapiṇḍika is well known. His name means: “One who gives alms (piṇḍa) to the unprotected (a-nātha)” and is the honorific of the householder Sudatta of the city of Sāvatthī.
Who was he?
How did he meet the Buddha?
What was his relationship to the teaching?
The answers to these questions may be found in the many references to him which occur in the traditional texts.
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