Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c21.692
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c21.692
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20. Tissa.—A monk known as Āraddhavipassaka-Tissa. While walking about he saw a lotus open at the rising of the sun. Immediately afterwards, he heard a slave-girl singing; her song told of how men are subject to death just as the lotus opens to the sun. Tissa thereupon developed insight and became an arahant.¹