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Pandita
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 and classic Indonesia * The Reverend, a title that translates as ''pendeta'' in Indonesian 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 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandita Ramabai
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati ( Marathi: ; 23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) was an Indian social reformer and Christian missionary. 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 schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakya Pandita
Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་པཎ་ཌི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན, ) who lived from (1 April 1182 – 28 December 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 ... [...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 and classic Indonesia * The Reverend, a title that translates as ''pendeta'' in Indonesian 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 Tib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U Pandita
Sayadaw U Paṇḍita (, ; 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 of scriptural studies to become a meditation tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gadadhara Pandita
Gadadhar Pandita () (Bengali: গদাধর পণ্ডিত; Sanskrit: गदाधर पंडित), also known as Pandita Goswami, was an incarnation of Srimati Radharani and close childhood friend of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the founder of the Hindu tradition of Gaudiya Vaishnavism. Birth Gadadhara Pandit was born in the village of Beleti Gram in the Chittagong district of modern Bangladesh in a family of Varendra Brahmins in 1408 of the Shaka era (i.e., 1486 AD) on the dark moon day of the month of Vaishakh. His father was Madhava Mishra and his mother Ratnavati Devi. He also had a younger brother named Baninath. He belongs to the Kashyapa gotra. He lived in the village of Beleti until he was twelve and then moved with his family to Nabadwip. Biography When Nimai left for Puri after taking sannyas, Gadadhar put forward many arguments against his leaving home. Gadadhar told Nimai that one can do any kind of spiritual sadhana even sitting at home.Nimai told him t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaya Pandita
Zaya Pandita Namkhaijamts (, 1599–1662) was a Mongolian Tibetan 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 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandita (Buddhism)
In Buddhism, ''paṇḍita'' (Pali, Sanskrit; Tibetan: ''khepa''; Wylie transliteration, Wyl:'' mkhas pa'') is a term meaning "a wise, learned, or astute person". This term has been used by Buddhists in several Polysemy, distinct but related ways, all referring to people who have an understanding of the Buddhist teachings. Theravada Buddhism In Theravada Buddhism, as it is used in the Bāla-paṇḍita Sutta (Saṃyutta Nikāya, SN 12.19) and other suttas of the Pali Canon, pandita denotes those who possess Prajñā (Buddhism), wisdom or knowledge of the Dharma, Dhamma. Paṇḍita Sutta (:id:Aṅguttaranikāya, AN 3.45) describes three things recommended by astute true persons (''paṇḍita''), that is giving (''dāna''), going forth (''pabbajjā''), and taking care of your mother and father (''mātāpitūnaṁ'' ''upaṭṭhānaṁ''). Moreover, the wise person (''paṇḍita'') is also described as: * One who recognizes when they’ve made a mistake, and one who properly acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandit
A pandit (; ; also spelled pundit, pronounced ; abbreviated Pt. or Pdt.) is an individual with specialised knowledge or a teacher of any field of knowledge in Hinduism, particularly the Vedic scriptures, dharma, or Hindu philosophy; in colonial-era literature, the term generally refers to lawyers specialized in Hindu law. Whereas, today the title is used for experts in other subjects, such as music. Pandit entered English as the loanword pundit, referring to a person who offers opinion in an authoritative manner on a particular subject area (typically politics, the social sciences, technology or sport), usually through the mass media. Ustad is the equivalent title for a Muslim man in the musical sense. The equivalent titles for a Hindu woman are Vidushi, Pandita, or Panditain; however, these titles are not currently in widespread use. In Sanskrit, pandit generally refers to any "wise, educated or learned man" with specialized knowledge. The term is derived from ' () which means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agga Maha Pandita
Aggamahāpaṇḍita (, ) 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 qualifications: * Possesses the Aggamahāganthavācak ... [...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 known as the Karnata Kingdom, was a late medieval Hinduism, Hindu empire that ruled much of southern India. It was established in 1336 by the brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I of the Sangama dynasty, belongi ... 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] |
Limenitidini
Limenitidini is a tribe of brush-footed butterflies of the subfamily Limenitidinae. Genera In alphabetical order: – sisters * '' Athyma'' Westwood, 850/small> – sergeants * ''Auzakia'' Moore, 898/small> * '' Cymothoe'' Hübner, 819/small> – gliders * '' Harma'' Doubleday, 848/small> – gliders * '' Kumothales'' Overlaet, 1940 * '' Lamasia'' Moore, 898 * '' Lebadea'' Felder, 1861 * '' Lelecella'' Hemming, 1939 * ''Limenitis'' Fabricius, 1807 – admirals * '' Litinga'' Moore, 898/small> * ''Moduza'' Moore, 881/small> – commanders * '' Patsuia'' Moore, 898 * '' Pandita'' Moore, 1857 * '' Parasarpa'' Moore, 898/small> * ''Pseudacraea'' Westwood, 850/small> – false acraeas * ''Pseudoneptis ''Pseudoneptis'' is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. It Monotypic taxon, contains only one species ''Pseudoneptis bugandensis'', the blue sailer or blue sergeant. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, ...'' Snellen, 1882 – blue s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
