Viśvabhū
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| Viśvabhū | |
|---|---|
| Sanskrit | Viśvabhū |
| Pāli | Vessabhū |
| Information | |
| Preceded by | Sikhī Buddha |
| Succeeded by | Kakusandha Buddha |
Viśvabhū (P. Vessabhū; T. kun skyobs; C. pishepo 毘舍婆) was the last buddha of the the "glorious eon" (vyūhakalpa), which was the eon that proceeded the current "fortunate eon" (bhadrakalpa).[1][2][3]
This buddha is included in the following lists:
- one of the seven buddhas of antiquity in the early Buddhist texts
- one of the twenty-nine buddhas listed in Buddhavamsa of the Pali tradition
Life
For six thousand years he lived in the household in three palaces: Ruci, Suruci and Vaddhana (Rativaddhana); his wife was Sucittā, and their son Suppabuddha. He left home in a golden palanquin, practiced austerities for six months, was given rice milk by Sirivaddhanā of Sucittanigama, and grass for his seat by the Nāga king Narinda, and attained Enlightenment under a sāla tree. He preached his first sermon at Anurārāma to his brothers, Sona and Uttara, who became his chief disciples.[4][5]
Notes
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. saptatathāgata.
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. List of Lists, "seven buddhas [of the past].
- ↑
kun skyobs, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Malalasekera, GP (2007). "Buddha". Dictionary of Pāli proper names. Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. pp. 294–305. ISBN 978-81-208-3020-2.
- ↑ Davids, TWR; Davids, R (1878). "The successive bodhisats in the times of the previous Buddhas". Buddhist birth-stories; Jataka tales. The commentarial introduction entitled Nidana-Katha; the story of the lineage. London: George Routledge & Sons. pp. 115–44.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Dharmachakra Translation Committee (2023), Good Eon Sutra , 84000 Reading Room
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