Courtesy - Daily News by Tissa Devendra
Having been named ‘Tissa’ by my parents, without recourse to astrology, I basked in some reflected glory as a schoolboy, in the 1940s, whenever the name of a King Tissa popped up in our Ceylon History lesson. We are now in the month of Poson when Arahat Mahinda transformed Lankadvipa into a Dharmadvipa beginning with his famous summons to our hunter king - “Tissa! Tissa!” As such, my wandering mind has been inspired into thinking about others, both famous and infamous, who share my name.
‘Tissa’ has been a name of some of the Buddha’s early disciples such as Moggaliputta Tissa.
But post Parinibbana it seems to have lost popularity and rarely appears in our scriptures. (This amateur observation may need correction by serious scholars).
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