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Also known as Kakusandha Buddha

Kakusandha (Pāli), or Krakucchanda in Sanskrit, is one of the ancient Buddhas whose biography is chronicled in chapter 22 of the Buddhavaṃsa, one of the books of the Pali Canon.

Key facts

Buddha.name
Kakusandha Buddha
Buddha.image
Ananda-Bagan-Myanmar-30-gje.jpg
Buddha.image_size
200px
Buddha.caption
North-facing Kakusandha Buddha, Ananda Temple, Myanmar
Buddha.sanskrit_name
क्रकुच्छंदKrakucchanda
Buddha.pali_name
Kakusandha
Buddha.sinhala_name
කකුසඳ බුදුරාජාණන් වහන්සේKakusandha budurajanan wahanse
Buddha.burmese_name
ကကုသန် ()
Buddha.chinese_name
拘留孙佛(Pinyin: Jūliúsūn Fó)
Buddha.japanese_name
(romaji: Kuruson Butsu)
Buddha.mongolian_name
Кракучандра
Buddha.khmer_name
ព្រះពុទ្ធកកុសន្ធោPreah Puth Kakosantho
Buddha.korean_name
구류손불(RR: Guryuson Bul)
Buddha.thai_name
พระกกุสันธพุทธเจ้าPhra Kakusantha Phutthachao
Buddha.vietnamese_name
Phật Câu Lưu Tôn
Buddha.veneration
Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana
Buddha.preceded_by
Vessabhū
Buddha.succeeded_by
Koṇāgamana

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Religion
Buddhism
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Kakusandha (Pāli), or Krakucchanda in Sanskrit, is one of the ancient Buddhas whose biography is chronicled in chapter 22 of the Buddhavaṃsa, one of the books of the Pali Canon.

According to Theravāda Buddhism, Kakusandha is the twenty-fifth of the twenty-nine named Buddhas, the fourth of the Seven Buddhas of Antiquity, and the first of the five Buddhas of the present kalpa.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Krakucchanda Buddha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.