Brahmayu

Brahmayu was a Brahmin, residing in Mithila and well-accoplished in the Vedic studies, ^{[1] [2]} who figures in the Brahmayu Sutta (MN 91). In this sutta, Brahmayu converts to Buddhism after the Buddha convinced him t listen to the dharma by revealing two of the hidden marks of a Buddha, namely "his hidden genitals and enormous tongue." ^[3]

References

1. Powers 2009.
2. Malalasekera 2007.
3. Holt, Kinnard & Walters 2012, p. 192.

Sources

• Holt, John Clifford; Kinnard, Jacob N.; Walters, Jonathan S. (2012). Constituting Communities: Theravāda Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia. State University of New York Press. ISBN   978-0-7914-8705-1.
• Malalasekera, George Peiris (2007). Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names. Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House. ISBN   978-81-208-3020-2.
• Powers, John (2009). A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism. Harvard University Press. ISBN   978-0-674-05443-1.

External links

• Brahmayu Sutta