Talk:Mucalinda

Comment
disagree with merger. No reason given. --Dangerous-Boy 20:10, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

third week

 * The protection from the elements came in the third week after the Buddha's enlightenment (moved from main text 218.166.81.158 08:21, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

So I have heard, that one week after Buddha attained enlightenment he sat one quarter of a lunar month, from full moon to waning crescent, sharing pure eulogia, that is gratitude, with the Bodhi tree that sheltered him. Thus he sat by the sacred fig tree for a full moon round alltogether. The next seven days, from waning crescent to black moon, he sat under the Ajapana Banyam, also called the Vata tree. From the new moon until waxing crescent the Lord Buddha sat under the Mucalinda. Known both as the name for the tree and the Naga King. The last week in the month, from waxing crescent to full moon, is marked by the sitting under the Rajayatana tree. Thus are these four trees linked to the Kalachakra.

Kundalini?
Is Mucalinda same as kundalini? Or a metaphor?--N33 (talk) 19:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

...................................................................................................................... This picture I believe is metaphorical. At the point where the serpent energy (shakti/ earth/ kundalini) completes its journey up from the base of the body and reaches the crown chakra this is where all knowledge and wisdom of the is obtained in what is traditionally viewed as "enlightenment" (125.238.224.5 (talk) 12:43, 21 June 2008 (UTC))

Pali names
Mucalinda Pawyilee (talk) 15:00, 10 August 2008 (UTC) A tree near the Ajapālanigrodha in Uruvelā. The Buddha spent there the third week after the Enlightenment. There was a great shower of rain, and the Nāga king, Mucalinda, of the tree, sheltered the Buddha by winding his coils seven times round the Buddha's body and holding his hood over the Buddha's head (Vin.i.3; J.i.80; BuA.8, 241; Ud.ii.1; Mtn.iii.300, 302; DhSA.35).

The Udāna Commentary (100f.; see also MA.i.385) adds that the space provided by the Nāga's coils was as large as the floor space of the Lohapāsāda and that the Nāga king lived in a pond near the tree.

Other images
I found this image of the Nagayon Paya, which seems to fit this article very well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Otto.fox (talk • contribs) 03:59, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

legends pertaining to Mucalinda
I have heard and read from several sources a story which elaborates on the Mucalinda legend. According to this story, the Buddha was pleased with his protector and blessed him by placing a hand on his hood. As a sign of the Buddha's blessing, cobras bear his fingerprints on their hoods. Indian or Spectacled cobras (Naja naja) of course have two ocelli or eyespot markings on the back of their hood. (These are thought to serve as "eyes in the back of the head," with the adaptive function of deterring predators that might try to attack the standing cobra from behind). This story may be told in Thailand also, although there is a slight inconsistency in that Thai cobras (Naja kaouthia) have only one spot. :)

I have also heard a variant in which the Buddha was protected by the serpent not from rain storms but from the blazing Indian sun.

Unfortunately, I cannot find a decent source for either of these elements in the Mucalinda story and do not know where they originated. 174.111.242.35 (talk) 15:38, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

That sounds a bit out of character...
If buddha was offered protection from the rain, wouldn't he have said somthing like "That is not me in the rain, and the rain isn't there either." or perhaps "The drops on my skin exist, even if you stop them from getting there." or somthing along these lines? --TiagoTiago (talk) 13:13, 13 November 2011 (UTC)