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Dīpankara Buddha
Dipankara (Pali: Dīpaṅkara; Sanskrit: ', "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. According to Buddhists, Dipankara was a previous Buddha who attained Enlightenment eons prior to Gautama Buddha, the historical Buddha.
Key facts
- Buddha.name
- Dipankara Buddha
- Buddha.image
- Statue de Dipankara (Temple de Swayambhunath) (8436396688).jpg
- Buddha.caption
- 7th century statue in a niche of Swayambhunath, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Buddha.sinhala_name
- දීපඞ්කර බුදුන් වහන්සේ Dipankara Budun Wahanse
- Buddha.nepali_name
- दीपङ्करDīpaṅkara
- Buddha.bengali_name
- দীপঙ্কর
- Buddha.pali_name
- Dīpaṅkara
- Buddha.sanskrit_name
- Dīpaṃkara
- Buddha.burmese_name
- ()
- Buddha.chinese_name
- 燃燈佛(Pinyin: Rándēng Fó)
- Buddha.japanese_name
- (romaji: Nentō Butsu)
- Buddha.tibetan_name
- མར་མེ་མཛད་Wylie: mar me mdzadTHL: Marmedzé
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- Iconography
- Prediction
- Veneration
- See also
- References
Dipankara (Pali: Dīpaṅkara; Sanskrit: ', "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. According to Buddhists, Dipankara was a previous Buddha who attained Enlightenment eons prior to Gautama Buddha, the historical Buddha.
Generally, Buddhists believe that there has been a succession of many Buddhas in the distant past and that many more will appear in the future. Dipankara was one of these previous Buddhas, while Gautama Buddha was the current and most recent Enlightened one, and Maitreya will be the next Buddha in the distant future.