Introduction
Anuruddha was a Shakya cousin of the Buddha who became one of his most accomplished disciples, particularly renowned for his mastery of the "divine eye" (dibba cakkhu), a form of clairvoyant perception.
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Foremost in Clairvoyance
Anuruddha is traditionally listed among the Buddha's most senior disciples and was present at the Buddha's final passing (parinirvana) at Kushinagar, where the texts describe him as the one who perceived the precise sequence of meditative states the Buddha passed through in his final moments — a role reflecting his particular renown for subtle perceptual and meditative attainment among the monastic community.
This article follows the Pali Canon and its commentarial tradition as the primary early Buddhist textual source; where sources genuinely disagree on a detail (such as an exact parentage), that disagreement is noted rather than resolved into a single invented certainty.