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Dīpankara Buddha
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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
- Buddha.mongolian_name
- ᠵᠣᠯᠠ ᠢᠢᠨ ᠵᠥᠬᠢᠶᠠᠭᠴᠢ᠂ ᠳᠢᠸᠠᠩ᠋ᠭᠠᠷ; Зулын Зохиогч, Дивангар; Zula yin Zohiyagci, Divangar
- Buddha.korean_name
- 연등불(RR: Yeondeung Bul)
- Buddha.thai_name
- พระทีปังกรพุทธเจ้าPhra Thipangkon Phutthachao
- Buddha.vietnamese_name
- Nhiên Đăng Phật
- Buddha.veneration
- Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana
- Buddha.attributes
- Causer of Light
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary character
- Image
- 'Dipankara Buddha', Nepal, Norton Simon Museum.JPG
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- native label
- दीपंकर
- Commons category
- Dipankara Buddha
- present in work
- Journey to the West
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Iconography
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- Veneration
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- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dīpankara Buddha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.