Kassapa Buddha

Kassapa Buddha
South-facing Kassapa Buddha, Ananda Temple, Myanmar
Sanskritकाश्यप
Kāśyapa
Pāliकस्सप
Kassapa
Burmeseကဿပ
([kaʔθəpa̰])
Chinese迦葉佛
(Pinyin: Jiāshè Fó)
Japanese迦葉仏（かしょうぶつ）
(romaji: Kashō Bosatsu)
Khmerព្រះពុទ្ធកស្សបោ
Preah Puth Kassapao
Korean가섭불
(RR: Gaseop Bul)
Mongolianᠭᠡᠷᠡᠯ ᠰᠠᠬᠢᠭᠴᠢ Гашив
Gashiv
Sinhalaකාශ්‍යප බුදුන් වහන්සේ (kashyapa budun vahansē)
Thaiพระกัสสปพุทธเจ้า
Phra Kassapa Phutthachao
Tibetanའོད་སྲུང་
Wylie: 'od srung
THL: ösung
VietnamesePhật Ca Diếp
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Venerated byTheravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana
Preceded by
Kanakamuni Buddha
Succeeded by
Gautama Buddha
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Kassapa Buddha (Pāli), is one of the ancient Buddhas whose biography is chronicled in chapter 24[1] of the Buddhavaṃsa, one of the books of the Pali Canon. He was the previous Buddha of this aeon before the present Gautama Buddha, though Kassapa lived long before him.

According to Theravāda Buddhist tradition, Kassapa is the twenty-seventh of the twenty-nine named Buddhas, the sixth of the Seven Buddhas of Antiquity, and the third of the five Buddhas of the present kalpa.[2]

The present kalpa is called a mahabhadrakalpa (great auspicious aeon). The five Buddhas of the present kalpa are:[3][4]

  1. Kakusandha (the first Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
  2. Koṇāgamana (the second Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
  3. Kassapa (the third Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
  4. Gautama (the fourth and present Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
  5. Maitreya (the fifth and future Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
  1. ^ Vicittasarabivamsa, U (1992). "Chapter 24: Kassapa Buddhavamsa". In Ko Lay, U; Tin Lwin, U (eds.). The great chronicle of Buddhas, Volume One, Part Two (1st ed.). Yangon, Myanmar: Ti=Ni Publishing Center. pp. 285–92.
  2. ^ Gärtner, Uta; Jens Lorenz (1994). Tradition and modernity in Myanmar. LIT Verlag. p. 281. ISBN 978-3-8258-2186-9.
  3. ^ Buswell Jr., RE; Lopez Jr., DS (2014). The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (1st ed.). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-691-15786-3.
  4. ^ "Chapter 36: The Buddhas in the three periods of time". Buddhism in a Nutshell Archives. Hong Kong: Buddhistdoor International. Retrieved 2014-12-21.