The Samyutta Nikáya mentions an interview between an Elder of this name and the Sákyan Mahánáma. Mahánáma asks the Elder if the learner's way of life is identical with that of the Tathágata. Vangísa answers that it is not so; learners only abandon the five hindrances; arahants have completely destroyed them from the root.
The interview took place in the Nigrodháráma at Kapilavatthu.
The name Lomasavangísa is, probably, a wrong or variant reading for Lomasakangiya (q.v.). S.v.327f.