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'''Panthaka''' (Skt. ; Tib. ''Lamten''; Wyl. ''lam chen bstan'') — one of the [[Sixteen Arhats]].

Panthaka is the elder brother of [[Chulapanthaka]], the eleventh of the Sixteen Arhats. He was an accomplished scholar with hundreds of students. After listening to a monk explain the [[Buddha]]'s teaching of [[interdependent origination]] he sought ordination, studied and meditated on the teachings and attained the level of [[arhat]]. He then taught the [[Dharma]] widely. 

He dwells in the [[Heaven of the Thirty-Three]] together with 900 arhats.

With his left hand in a [[mudra of teaching the Dharma|teaching mudra]] and his right carrying a book, he aids those who earnestly wish to study, practise and meditate on the Buddha’s teachings.

==Further Reading==
*''Crystal Mirror, volume VI'', Dharma Publishing 1984.

[[Category:Sixteen Arhats]]