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Pandita Gunaprabha
Paṇḍita (Hindi: ''paṇḍit''; Malaysian and Indonesian Malay: ''pendeta''; Mongol: ''bandida''; Javanese: pandhita, pêndhita, pêndheta, (''pandito'', ''pendito'', ''pendeto)''; Tibetan: ''khepa''; Wyl: ''mkhas pa''), a Sanskrit word meaning learned master, may refer to: Titles * Pandita (Buddhism), a Buddhist teacher skilled in five sciences ** Agga Maha Pandita, an honorific title used in Theravada Buddhism * Pandit, the Hindi variant, a broad term for teacher in the ancient and contemporary Indian context * Pandita (Islam), a term for Muslim ritual specialists in the Philippines People * Balajinnatha Pandita (1916–2007), Sanskrit scholar * Gadadhara Pandita, an associate of Hindu social reformer Chaitanya Mahaprabhu * Lakshmana Pandita, 15th century Indian medical author * Pandita Ramabai (1858–1922), Indian social reformer * Sakya Pandita (1182–1251), 13th-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar * Sayadaw U Pandita (1921–2016), Burmese Theravada master * Zaya Pandita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandita (Buddhism)
Paṇḍita (Sanskrit; Tibetan: ''khepa''; Wylie transliteration, Wyl:'' mkhas pa'') was a title in Indian Buddhism awarded to scholars who have mastered the Pancavidya, five sciences (Sanskrit: ''pañcavidyāsthāna''; Tib. ''rigné chenpo nga''; Wyl. ''rig gnas chen po lnga'') in which a learned person was traditionally supposed to be well-versed. The five sciences are: science of language (''śabdavidyā''), science of logic (''hetuvidyā''), science of medicine (''cikitsāvidyā''), science of fine arts and crafts (''śilakarmasthānavidyā''), and science of spirituality (''adhyātmavidyā''). The stipulation can be traced to (but may well predate) the ''Mahāyāna-sūtrālamkāra-kārikā'', which states: "Without becoming a scholar in the five sciences, not even the supreme sage can become omniscient. For the sake of refuting and supporting others, and for the sake of knowing everything himself, he makes an effort in these [five sciences]."''The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agga Maha Pandita
Aggamahāpaṇḍita ( my, အဂ္ဂမဟာပဏ္ဍိတ, ) is an honorific Burmese Buddhist title conferred by the Myanmar government to distinguished Theravada Buddhist monks. Etymology Aggamahāpandiṭa, meaning "foremost great and wise one," is derived from the following Pali terms: *''Agga'', from ''Aggasāvaka'' (), which was conferred by the Buddha to his foremost disciples, Sariputta and Mahamoggallana. *''Mahā'', meaning "great." *''Paṇḍita'', meaning "wise or learned person," and denoting possession of wisdom and knowledge of Tipitaka. Qualifications The title is usually awarded to Buddhist monks who are highly proficient in teaching the Dhamma or those who are believed to be enlightened (''arahants''). The title is awarded annually in January by the head of the Burmese government, following after rigorous and subtle examination of a monk's wisdom and achievement by the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee. Recipients must meet the following qualifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandit
A Pandit ( sa, पण्डित, paṇḍit; hi, पंडित; also spelled Pundit, pronounced ; abbreviated Pt.) is a man with specialised knowledge or a teacher of any field of knowledge whether it is shashtra (Holy Books) or shastra (Weapons) in Hinduism, particularly the Vedas, Vedic scriptures, dharma, or Hindu philosophy; in colonial-era literature, the term generally refers to Brahmins specialized in Hindu law. Pandits (Brahmins) is the highest varna or class of sanatan dharma. Brahmins are both martial and preacher community. This community inculdes many surnames like Tyagi, Bhumihar, Mohyal Brahmin, Mohyal, Chibber etc. Pandits can do agriculture also as they are among the biggest Zamindar (landlord) communities of India. Whereas, today the title is used for experts in other subjects, such as music. Pundit is an English loanword meaning "an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called upon to give their opinions to the public". Ustad is the equi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandita (Islam)
Paṇḍita (Hindi: ''paṇḍit''; Malaysian and Indonesian Malay: ''pendeta''; Mongol: ''bandida''; Javanese: pandhita, pêndhita, pêndheta, (''pandito'', ''pendito'', ''pendeto)''; Tibetan: ''khepa''; Wyl: ''mkhas pa''), a Sanskrit word meaning learned master, may refer to: Titles * Pandita (Buddhism), a Buddhist teacher skilled in five sciences ** Agga Maha Pandita, an honorific title used in Theravada Buddhism * Pandit, the Hindi variant, a broad term for teacher in the ancient and contemporary Indian context * Pandita (Islam), a term for Muslim ritual specialists in the Philippines People * Balajinnatha Pandita (1916–2007), Sanskrit scholar * Gadadhara Pandita, an associate of Hindu social reformer Chaitanya Mahaprabhu * Lakshmana Pandita, 15th century Indian medical author * Pandita Ramabai (1858–1922), Indian social reformer * Sakya Pandita (1182–1251), 13th-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar * Sayadaw U Pandita (1921–2016), Burmese Theravada master * Zaya Pandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balajinnatha Pandita
Baljinath Pandit (1916–2007) was a Sanskrit scholar and authority on Kashmir Shaivism. He obtained his Ph.D. at Punjab University and was professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy at Himachal Pradesh University Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) is an Indian public state university at Summer Hill in the state capital city Shimla. It is close to the vicinity of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. It is wholly financed by the government of Himachal .... He was honored for his work by the President of India, and was also on the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute Academic Council. In 1999 he was on the panel of "Seminar on Kashmir Shaivaism". He died on 7 September 2007. Works * * * * * * * * * * by Chittaranjan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gadadhara Pandita
Gadadhara Pandita, also known as Pandita Goswami, was a close associate of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Gadadhara Pandita Goswami is described as a handsome young boy, student of Nyaya (Indian logic) and ranked highest among the inner circle of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's followers. In the later part of his life, Gadadhara Pandita lived in the Tota Gopinatha Temple. The local legend around the temple is that the deity of Krishna in the temple sat down to accommodate Pandit Goswami's worship after he had become feeble due to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's departure. Others say that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Pandit Goswami disappeared on the same day inside the Gundicha Temple of Puri, Odisha. The Gadadhara Parivara Chaitanya Mahaprabhu personally gave Gadadhara Pandita Goswami the deity to worship, and the responsibility to teach Srimad Bhagavatam. Pandita Goswami's guru was Pundarika Vidyanidhi. Pandita Goswami initiated Bhugarbha Goswami, and Bhugarbha Goswami gave rise to one line of the Gadad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakshmana Pandita
Lakshmana Pandita was the author of ''Vaidyarajavallabha'' (also known as Vaidyavallabha), a Sanskrit book on Ayurveda written during the Vijayanagara Empire The Vijayanagara Empire, also called the Karnata Kingdom, was a Hinduism, Hindu empire based in the region of South India, which consisted the modern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and some parts of Telangana an ... in the 15th Century. He was a Paramacharya of King Bukka II. His other popular work is ''YogaCandrika'', a treatise on Ayurvedic medicine. Notes References * Durga Prasad, History of Andhras, Guntur, 1988, page no - 270. Writers from Karnataka[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandita Ramabai
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) was an Indian Social Reformer. She was the first woman to be awarded the titles of '' Pandita'' as a Sanskrit scholar and ''Sarasvati'' after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta. She was one of the ten women delegates of the Congress session of 1889.During her stay in England in early 1880s she converted to christianity.After that she toured extensively in the United states to collect funds for destitute Indian women.With the funds raised she started Sharada sadan for child widows. In the late 1890s, she founded Mukti Mission, a christian charity at Kedgaon village, forty miles east of the city of Pune. The mission was later named Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission. Early life and education Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati was born as Ramabai Dongre on 23 April 1858 into a Marathi-speaking Chitpavan Brahmin family. Her father, Anant Shastri Dongre, a Sanskrit scholar, taught her Sanskrit at home. Dongre' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakya Pandita
Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་པཎ་ཌི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན, ) (1182 – 28 November 1251) was a Tibetan spiritual leader and Buddhist scholar and the fourth of the Five Sakya Forefathers (). Künga Gyeltsen is generally known simply as Sakya Pandita (or Sapan for short), a title given to him in recognition of his scholarly achievements and knowledge of Sanskrit. He is held in the tradition to have been an emanation of Manjusri, the embodiment of the wisdom of all the Buddhas. Sakya Pandita was also known as a great scholar in Tibet, India, Mongolia and China and was proficient in the five great sciences of Buddhist philosophy, medicine, grammar, dialectics and sacred Sanskrit literature as well as the minor sciences of rhetoric, synonymies, poetry, music, dancing and astrology. He is considered to be the fourth Sakya Forefather and sixth Sakya Trizin and one of the most important figures in the Sakya lineag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U Pandita
Sayadaw U Paṇḍita ( my, ဆရာတော် ဦးပဏ္ဍိတ, ; also ''Ovādācariya Sayādo Ū Paṇḍitābhivaṁsa''; 28 July 1921 – 16 April 2016) was one of the foremost masters of Vipassanā. He trained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition of Myanmar. A successor to the late Mahāsi Sayādaw, he has taught many of the Western teachers and students of the Mahāsi style of Vipassanā meditation. He was the abbot o Meditation Centerin Yangon, Myanmar. Early life and education U Paṇḍita was born in 1921 in Insein in greater Rangoon (now Yangon) during British colonial rule. He became a novice at age twelve, and ordained at age twenty. After decades of study, he passed the rigorous series of government examinations in the Theravāda Buddhist texts, gaining the Dhammācariya (Dhamma teacher) degree in 1952. U Paṇḍita began practicing Vipassana under the guidance of Mahāsi Sayādaw beginning in 1950. Career In 1955, he left his position as a teacher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaya Pandita
Zaya Pandita or Namkhaijamts (1599–1662) was a Buddhist missionary priest and scholar of Oirat origin who is the most prominent Oirat Buddhist scholar. Among his accomplishments is the invention of the Clear Script. Biography Zaya Pandita was the fifth son of Babakhan, a minor Khoshut prince. After Babakhan converted to Tibetan Buddhism in the early 17th century, he, like many other Oirat princes, wished for one of his sons to enter the Buddhist clergy. In pursuit of his wish, Babakhan chose Zaya to become a śrāmaṇera ("novice monk"). In 1615, Zaya journeyed to Lhasa where he would study and practice Buddhism, including study under the guidance of the Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen, 4th Panchen Lama. In 1638, Zaya Pandita left Tibet at the direction of the Panchen Lama to conduct missionary work among the Mongols. One year later in 1640, he assisted Erdeni Batur, Khun Taiyishi of the Choros (Oirats) tribe, in assembling a pan-Mongol conference between the Oirat and the Khalkh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandita (butterfly)
Paṇḍita (Hindi: ''paṇḍit''; Malaysian and Indonesian Malay: ''pendeta''; Mongol: ''bandida''; Javanese: pandhita, pêndhita, pêndheta, (''pandito'', ''pendito'', ''pendeto)''; Tibetan: ''khepa''; Wyl: ''mkhas pa''), a Sanskrit word meaning learned master, may refer to: Titles * Pandita (Buddhism), a Buddhist teacher skilled in five sciences ** Agga Maha Pandita, an honorific title used in Theravada Buddhism * Pandit, the Hindi variant, a broad term for teacher in the ancient and contemporary Indian context * Pandita (Islam), a term for Muslim ritual specialists in the Philippines People * Balajinnatha Pandita (1916–2007), Sanskrit scholar * Gadadhara Pandita, an associate of Hindu social reformer Chaitanya Mahaprabhu * Lakshmana Pandita, 15th century Indian medical author * Pandita Ramabai (1858–1922), Indian social reformer * Sakya Pandita (1182–1251), 13th-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar * Sayadaw U Pandita (1921–2016), Burmese Theravada master * Zaya Pandita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
