Aṅgulimāla
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Sep 21, 2026
speaker_6UNKNOWN
I'm not sure it's relevant or not.
speaker_6UNKNOWN
The Angulimala project in England, does it sound similar to, is it the similar kind of? We
Ajahn NisabhoHOST
have a senior monk named Lungphor Kemadamo who runs the Angulimala project in England and is a chaplaincy project for Buddhist chaplaincy.
Ajahn NisabhoHOST
I think it's very similar.
Ajahn NisabhoHOST
Actually, it's a good parallel.
Ananda ThilakasiriGUEST
He was a-- He became a monk, but I don't think he went very far.
Ananda ThilakasiriGUEST
But I'm sa- Aṅgulimāla.
Ananda ThilakasiriGUEST
We all know who Aṅgulimāla was.
Ananda ThilakasiriGUEST
He killed nine hundred and ninety-nine people.
Ananda ThilakasiriGUEST
But Buddha went looking for him and gave him a short Dhamma talk, and he changed instantly.
SadhguruSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Seinen richtigen Namen haben wir vergessen.
SadhguruSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Der Name, den die Leute ihm gegeben haben, lautet Angulimala.
SadhguruSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Etwas geschah mit ihm.
SadhguruSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Er hatte das Gefühl, dass die Gesellschaft ungerecht zu ihm gewesen sei, wurde ein wütender Mann.
SadhguruSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Er will nur noch einen weiteren, um seine Lust zu befriedigen.
SadhguruSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Also eines Tages kam Gautama Buddha in diese Stadt.
SadhguruSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Da er also eine Girlande aus diesen Fingern trug, nannten sie ihn mittlerweile Angulimala.
SadhguruSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Das bedeutet jemand, der Finger als seine Girlande trägt.
Wendy LauGUEST
But there's a second part of the story that I love.
Wendy LauGUEST
So Angulimala the monk, after he's been ordained, he's, you know, one of the, the Buddha's close students.
Wendy LauGUEST
You know, they go on alms, alms round, you know, begging for food every day.
Wendy LauGUEST
And while he was out one day, he came upon a pregnant woman who was in agonizing labor and was not able to deliver.
Wendy LauGUEST
We'll, we'll, we'll change, you know, we'll make this right.
Wendy LauGUEST
So why don't you say, 'Sister, since I was born in the noble birth,' meaning ordination as a monk, 'I do not recall intentionally killing a living being.
Wendy LauGUEST
Through this truth may there be wellbeing for you and your fetus.'" So Angulimala said, "Okay, I can, I can do that.
Wendy LauGUEST
That's the truth.
Ayya SantacittaHOST
And, and, uh, in that case, he said, "Well, you probably haven't done anything so bad." And I'm thinking, "Well, you don't know me [laughs], you know?" I said...
Ayya SantacittaHOST
Um, and then, and then he said, you know, "Take Angulimala, for example.
Ayya SantacittaHOST
You know, he killed all these people, and still, when he saw the Dhamma, that was all the past." And I...
Ayya SantacittaHOST
And when he said, like, "Take a look at Angulimala," and I thought, "Oh God, [laughs] is he gonna compare me to Angulimala?" You know, like, that didn't feel like it was gonna resolve anything in my heart.
Ayya SantacittaHOST
But then when he said, you know, "Think of how, how big Anguli's heart needed to be in order to hold all that," and that was key for me.
Ayya SantacittaHOST
It's like, oh, I need to grow the heart to hold whatever it was I did in the past.
8 MINS LATER
Ayya SantacittaHOST
The noble disciple is rid of desire, rid of ill will, unconfused, aware, and mindful.
Ayya SantacittaHOST
They meditate spreading a heart full of love to one direction, to the second, the third, the fourth, so that's loving kindness, and on with the other Brahmavihāras.
Joe ConniffHOST
We hear about some of the difficult people that he dealt with in the stories of the Buddha.
Joe ConniffHOST
I did a talk a few weeks ago on Angulimala.
Joe ConniffHOST
It was a murderous bandit that Angulimala basically means like a garland of fingers.
Joe ConniffHOST
And he was... as I said, this murderous bandit that was basically told by some unskillful teacher that he had to murder all these people and take a finger as kind of like a trophy kind of thing and had to kill a thousand people.
Joe ConniffHOST
And of course, this individual encountered the Buddha sometime in his travels and the Buddha dealt with this difficult person still with compassion, with generosity, with kindness, even when it could have been fearful.
DhammaratoHOST
Uh, now, uh, there's a backstory.
DhammaratoHOST
The backstory is, is that, uh, Angulimala's actual name was, uh, Ahimsaka.
DhammaratoHOST
Now, Ahim or Ahimsa means to be harmless.
DhammaratoHOST
And so, uh, Ahimsaka meant a harmless seeker.
DhammaratoHOST
His, uh, teacher was a Brahmin, and that they were, uh, uh, studying the, um, the Vedas, and that he was very good at it.
DhammaratoHOST
He was the number one student.
DhammaratoHOST
And that, uh, uh, one story is, is that Angulimala wanted, uh, the teacher's daughter.
DhammaratoHOST
And another story is, is that the other students were jealous and wanted, uh, the teacher to dislike, uh, Ahimsaka.
Alok PandeyHOST
There, but there is a future which is there beyond the mind which is attracting us, drawing us, carrying us, and that's why there is hope.
Alok PandeyHOST
That's why every Ratnakar has the possibility of becoming a Valmiki, and every Angulimal can become Anand.
Alok PandeyHOST
"And coins it continually into the present." So what do we do? We coin these into the pre- [laughs] it's a coin.
Alok PandeyHOST
That's why we should make the most of every moment mintage, because that's what we are going to carry.
Geoff ThompsonGUEST
He became a saint within one lifetime.
Geoff ThompsonGUEST
Angulimala was another Buddhist saint.
Geoff ThompsonGUEST
They say he killed 999 people before the Buddha converted him, and he was transformed within one lifetime.
Geoff ThompsonGUEST
St. Paul wrote 17 of the books in the New Testament, and he persecuted Christians.