| Padumuttara Buddha | |
|---|---|
| Sanskrit | पद्मोत्तर Padmottara |
| Pāli | Padumuttara |
| Burmese | ပဒုမုတ္တရဘုရား |
| Chinese | 蓮花上佛 (Pinyin:Liánhuāshàng Fó) |
| Korean | 연화상불 (RR:Yeonhwasang Bul) |
| Sinhala | පදුමුත්තර බුදුන් වහන්සේ Padumuththara Budun Wahanse |
| Thai | พระปทุมุตรพุทธเจ้า Phra Patumutar Phutthachao |
| Vietnamese | Thắng Liên Hoa Phật Thượng Liên Hoa Phật Bạch Liên Hoa Phật |
| Information | |
| Venerated by | Theravada,Mahayana,Vajrayana |
| Attributes | Producing Lotus |
Preceded by Nārada Buddha Succeeded by Sumedha Buddha | |
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According to theBuddhavaṃsa of thePali Canon,Padumuttara orPadumuttara Buddha is the thirteenth of the twenty-nine buddhas who preceded the historicalGautama Buddha.
In the Buddhavamsa, he is described as:
One hundred thousand aeons ago, Padumuttara Buddha, who knows everything and deserves every donations, was born alone in that aeon.[1]
He was born in Hamsavatī. He lived for ten thousand years in three palaces: Naravāhana, Yassa (or Yasavatī) and Vasavatti. His wife was Vasudattā, by whom he had a son, Uttara. His body was fifty-eightcubits (between 26.51 meters, or 87 feet) high.
He practicedasceticism for seven days. He died in Nandārāma at the age of one hundred thousand, and astūpa twelveleagues in height was erected over his relics.[2]
His life parallels that ofGautama Buddha except that he was assisted by different people and hisbodhi tree was asarala (Dipterocarpus zeylanicus) in Theravada buddhism. Many of Gautama Buddha's disciples were said to have made their aspiration for eminent positions in the time of Padumuttara.
In theApadāna some gods wish to build a stūpa of their own over the relics of Padumuttara. As aTathāgata his relics were not separated. Dīpankara attained Nirvāṇa inNandārāma, where a stūpa was built which was thirty-sixyojanas high.[3]
According to the Buddhavamsa, asacred lotus appears wherever the foot of Padumuttara lands. The lotuses had a length of 90 cubits or 135 feet and a breadth of 60 cubits or 90 feet. The stamens were 30 cubits or 45 feet and the petals were 12 cubits or 18 feet. When his right foot lands, 2.25quarts of pollen were produced. When he took another step, the previous lotus disappeared and a new one appeared.[4]
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