and therefore decided to send five hundred ruffians to kill him.The ruffians went to where Tissa was meditating in the forest and surrounded him. Tissa asked them why they had come. The ruffians replied that they had come to kill him. He didn't resist, but begged them to spare his life for one fur

ven Valgisa would have been able to find the afterlife destination of the arahant. D.2 EX. Kutumbiyaputta-Thsa Them (MA.L188,#) A young man called Tissa heired from a wealthy KuEumbiya family of SAvatthE. He renounced a legacy of forty crores and became a monk dwelling in the forest. His younger br

he kingdom. D.5 Ex. Buddha tends the sick monk himself (DhA.L3I9ff) Once the Buddha happened to see the sorrowful state of a certain monk called 'Tissa'. The monk had been meditating diligently until becoming afflicted with a disease of stinking open sores covering his whole body. Because of the sm