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Sumedha Buddha was born in Sudassana. According to the canon at 9,000 years old he became an ascetic, practiced austerities for fifteen days, and attained Enlightenment. He lived 90,000 years, and died in Medhārāma. [1] [2] The Buddhavamsa describes Sumedha Buddha in this fashion: Sumedha, hard to attack, of intense incandescence, supreme ...
Sumedha and the Buddha Dīpankara near the city. Produced in Thailand . Sumedha makes his vow as a Buddha-to-be (Pali: bodhisatta, Sanskrit: bodhisattva) because of the concern he has with other living beings. The story relates that Sumedha could have attained personal enlightenment at the time of meeting Dīpankara, but chooses to strive to ...
Dipankara (Pali: Dīpaṅkara; Sanskrit: Dīpaṃkara, "Lamp bearer") or Dipankara Buddha is one of the Buddhas of the past. He is said to have lived on Earth four asankheyyas and one hundred thousand kalpas ago. [1] According to Buddhists, Dipankara was a previous Buddha who attained Enlightenment eons prior to Gautama Buddha, the historical ...
In response, the Buddha relays the remainder of the Buddhavaṃsa. [9] In the second chapter Gautama tells how in a distant past life as layman named Sumedha, he received a prediction from Dīpankara Buddha that "In the next era you will become a buddha named Gotama.", [10] and told him the ten perfections he would need to practice.
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In this panel the ascetic Megha (the Buddha Shakyamuni in a past life) appears three times: first, standing before the Buddha Dipankara throwing flowers; second, prostrate before the Buddha spreading his matted locks over mud; and third, flying in the upper left of the panel in a gesture of veneration.
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(Mahabhashya 1/1/1 of Patanjali, Rigveda 10/71/1, Nyaya-manjari, Maitrayani samhita 4/5/8 etc). That is still followed in China. Shatapatha Brahmana tells that this Brihaspati or Brahmanaspati was from China but had came to India also. (9) Sumedha Buddha is same as Sumedha Rishi of Durga-saptashati of Markandeya-purana or of Tripura-mahatmya.