Aṅgulimāla is seen by Buddhists as the "patron saint" of childbirth and is associated with fertility in South and Southeast Asia. Aṅgulimāla's story can be found in numerous sources in Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan …

Angulimala (S. Aṅgulimāla, alt. Aṅgulimālīya; T. sor mo phreng ba སོར་མོ་ཕྲེང་བ་; C. Yangjuemoluo 央掘摩羅). [1] A disciple of the Buddha, who despite having killed nine-hundred and ninety-nine people, …

Angulimala, the robber and murderer, is one of the best known figures of the Buddhist scriptures, because of his dramatic life story. His conversion to monkhood and later to sainthood was …

ANGULIMALA, the Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy Organisation was founded on Magha Puja Day in February 1985.

Angulimala is one of the crucial figures in Buddhism, as well as the lifetime of Lord Buddha. The story of Angulimala is described in many Buddhist sutras, especially in the Theravada Sutras. Among all the …

When the king and his men came for Angulimala, they found him in the Buddha’s forest meditation retreat. Since the outlaw had given up his evil ways, the king agreed to leave him alone.

The story of how the bandit Angulimala gave up his extreme violence after meeting with the Buddha shows that whatever mistakes we have made in our lives, change is always possible.

Angulimala, whose birth name was changed from Himsaka (“harmful”) to Ahimsaka (“the harmless one”), was the son of the brahmin Bhaggava Gagga and his wife Mantani.

Angulimala led a life of simplicity and solitude, and under the Buddha’s guidance eventually attained enlightenment. But even then, there were many who remembered his terrible past and people would …

And at that time in King Pasenadi’s realm there was a bandit named Aṅgulimāla: brutal, bloody-handed, devoted to killing & slaying, showing no mercy to living beings. He turned villages into non-villages, …