Vipassī Buddha
| Vipassī Buddha | |
|---|---|
| Sanskrit | Vipaśyīn Buddha |
| Pāli | Vipassī Buddha |
| Burmese | ဝိပဿီဘုရား |
| Japanese | Bibashi Butsu |
| Thai | พระวิปัสสีพุทธเจ้า (Phra Wipatsi Phutthachao) |
| Information | |
| Venerated by | Vajrayāna |
| Attributes | Pure Buddha |
| Preceded by | Phussa Buddha |
| Succeeded by | Sikhī Buddha |
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In Buddhist tradition, Vipassī (Pāli) is the twenty-second of twenty-eight Buddhas described in Chapter 27 of the Buddhavamsa. The Buddhavamsa is a Buddhist text which describes the life of Gautama Buddha and the twenty-seven Buddhas who preceded him. It is the fourteenth book of the Khuddaka Nikāya, which in turn is part of the Sutta Piṭaka. The Sutta Piṭaka is one of three pitakas (main sections) which together constitute the Tripiṭaka, or Pāli Canon of Theravāda Buddhism.
The third to the last Buddha of the Alamkarakalpa, Vipassī was preceded by Phussa Buddha and succeeded by Sikhī Buddha.
The Pali word Vipassī has the Sanskrit form Vipaśyin. Vi (good) and passī (saw) together mean "having seen clearly". The word belongs to the same family as the term vipassanā (contemplation). This Buddha was so named because he had big eyes, clear vision both day and night, and his insight into perpetual complicated circumstances and very deep theories.
According to the Buddhavamsa, as well as traditional Buddhist legend and mythology, Vipassī lived 90 kalpas — many millions of years — before the present time. In Vipassī's time, the longevity of humans was 84,000 years.
Vipassī was born in Bandhumatī in Khema Park, in present-day India. His family was of the Kshatriya varna, which constituted the ruling and military elite of the Vedic period. His father was Bandhumā the warrior-chief, and his mother was Bandhumatī. His wife was Sutanu, and he had a son named Samavattakkhandha.
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