Sanjaya‐Belaṭṭhiputta (English spelling)

Japanese: サンジャヤ･ベーラッティプッタ（英語表記）Sañjaya‐Belaṭṭhiputta

An ancient Indian thinker from the 6th to 5th century BCE. Dates of birth and death unknown. Considered an agnostic and skeptic. A contemporary of Shakyamuni, he was one of the free thinkers who rejected the values of traditional Brahmin culture. In Chinese translations of Buddhist scriptures, he is transliterated as Sanjuyibiralibhi. He is said to have lived in Rajagriha, the capital of the Magadha Kingdom, and Shariputra and Maudgalyayana, who later became disciples of the Buddha, were his students. His ideas can be inferred from sources in Buddhist scriptures such as the Sramanagara Sutra, which treat him as a heretical theory that should be rejected (the Sixty-two Views and the Six Heretical Teachers).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

前6～前5世紀の古代インドの思想家。生没年不詳。不可知論者，懐疑論者とされる。釈迦と同時代の人で，伝統的バラモン文化の価値観を否定した自由思想家の一人。漢訳仏典では散若夷毘羅梨沸と音写される。マガダ国の首都王舎城に住したとされ，後に仏陀の弟子となった舎利弗と目連は彼の弟子であった。その思想は，《沙門果経》などの仏典の中で，否定されるべき異説(〈六十二見〉〈六師外道〉)として扱われている資料から推察できる。

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