Kakusandha Buddha
| Kakusandha Buddha | |
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Ananda Temple Buddha
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| Sanskrit | Krakkucchanda |
| Pāli | Kakusandha |
| Burmese | ကကုသန် ([ka̰kṵθàɴ]) |
| Chinese | 拘留孙佛 |
| Japanese | 拘留孫; くるそん; Kuruson |
| Mongolian | Кракучандра |
| Thai | พระกกุสันธพุทธเจ้า (Phra Kakusantha Phutthachao) |
| Tibetan | Khorvadjig |
| Vietnamese | Phật Câu Lưu Tôn |
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| Venerated by | Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana |
| Preceded by | Vessabhū Buddha |
| Succeeded by | Koṇāgamana Buddha |
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Kakusandha Buddha (Pāli), known as Krakucchanda in Sanskrit, and Khorvadjig in Tibetan) is one of the ancient Buddhas whose biography is chronicled in chapter 22 of the Buddhavamsa, one of the books of the Pāli Canon.
According to Theravāda Buddhist tradition, Kakusandha is the twenty-fifth of the twenty-nine named Buddhas, the fourth of the Seven Buddhas of Antiquity, and the first of the five Buddhas of the present kalpa.
The present kalpa is called the bhadrakalpa (Auspicious aeon). The five Buddhas of the present kalpa are:
Kakusandha Buddha was born in Khemavati Park in Khemavati. Khemavati is now known as Gotihawa, and it is located about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) southeast of Kapilavastu, in Kapilvastu District, in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. His father was Aggidatta, a Brahmin chaplain of the king Khemankara of Khemavati. His mother was Visakha. His wife was Virochamana (also known as Rocani); he had a son, Uttara (son of Kakusandha). Asoka visited Gotihawa, Nepal when he visited Lumbini, Nepal and installed a stone pillar and inscribed his visit in the pillar. There is also a stupa in Gothihawa. Therefore, it is generally accepted due to the pillar that the birthplace of Kakusandha is in Gothihawa, Nepal near Kapilavastu Municipality, Lumbini, Devadaha and the Ramagrama stupa.
Kakusandha lived for four thousand years in the household in three palaces: Ruci, Suruci and Vaddhana (or Rativaddhana). At the age of four thousand, he renounced the worldly life while riding on a chariot. He practised austerities for eight months. Before attaining enlightenment, he had accepted some milk-rice from the daughter of the Brahmin Vajirindha of the village Suchirindha, as well as grass for his seat from the yavapalaka Subhadda. He attained enlightenment under a sirisa tree, then delivered his first sermon to the assembly of eighty-four thousand monks in a park near Makila.
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