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Kassapa Buddha | |
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![]() South-facing Kassapa Buddha, Ananda Temple, Myanmar | |
Sanskrit | काश्यप Kāśyapa |
Pāli | कस्सप Kassapa |
Burmese | ကဿပ ([kaʔθəpa̰]) |
Chinese | 迦葉佛
(Pinyin: Jiāshè Fó) |
Japanese | 迦葉仏 (romaji: Kashō Butsu) |
Khmer | ព្រះពុទ្ធកស្សបោ Preah Puth Kassapao |
Korean | 가섭불 (RR: Gaseop Bul) |
Mongolian | ᠭᠡᠷᠡᠯ ᠰᠠᠬᠢᠭᠴᠢ Гашив Gashiv |
Sinhala | කාශ්යප බුදුන් වහන්සේ (kashyapa budun vahansē) |
Thai | พระกัสสปพุทธเจ้า Phra Kassapa Phutthachao |
Tibetan | འོད་སྲུང་ Wylie: 'od srung THL: ösung |
Vietnamese | Phật Ca Diếp |
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Venerated by | Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana |
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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 last Buddha before the historical Gautama Buddha, though living 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]