Kassapa Buddha
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Ananda Temple Buddha
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| Sanskrit | Kasyapa Buddha |
| Pāli | Kassapa Buddha |
| Burmese | ကဿပ ([kaʔθəpa̰]) |
| Chinese | 迦葉佛 |
| Japanese | 迦葉; かしょう; Kashō |
| Mongolian | ᠭᠡᠷᠡᠯ ᠰᠠᠬᠢᠭᠴᠢ, Гашив, (Geshib) |
| Tibetan | འོད་སྲུང་ཆེན་པོ (Ösung Chenpo) |
| Vietnamese | Phật Ca-Diếp |
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| Venerated by | Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana |
| Preceded by | Koṇāgamana Buddha |
| Succeeded by | Gautama Buddha |
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Kassapa Buddha (Pāli), known as Kāśyapa in Sanskrit, is one of the ancient Buddhas whose biography is chronicled in chapter 24 of the Buddhavamsa, one of the books of the Pāli Canon.
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.
The present kalpa is called the bhadrakalpa (Auspicious aeon). The five Buddhas of the present kalpa are:
Kassapa was born in Isipatana Deer Park. This place is located in Varanasi, a city in the modern-day state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. His parents were the Brahmins Brahmadatta and Dhanavatī, of the Kashyap Gotra.
According to legend, his body was twenty cubits high, and he lived for two thousand years in three different palaces. They are Hamsa, Yasa, and Sirinanda. (The BuA.217 calls the first two palaces Hamsavā and Yasavā). His chief wife was Sunandā, who bore him a son named Vijitasena.
Kassapa gave up his worldly life traveling in his palace. He practiced austerities for only seven days. Just before attaining enlightenment, he accepted a meal of milk-rice from his wife and grass for his seat from a yavapālaka named Soma. His Bodhi tree (the tree under which he attained enlightenment) was a banyan, and he preached his first sermon at Isipatana to an assembly of monks who had renounced the world in his company.
Kassapa performed the Twin Miracle at the foot of an asana tree outside Sundar Nagar. He held only one assembly of his disciples; among his most famous conversions was that of Nāradeva, a Yaksha. His chief disciples among monks were Tissa and Bhāradvāja, and among nuns were Anulā and Uruvelā, his constant attendant being Sabbamitta. Among his patrons, the most eminent were Sumangala and Ghattīkāra, Vijitasenā, and Bhaddā.
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