Kakusandha
| Kakusandha Buddha | |
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North-facing Kakusandha Buddha, Ananda Temple, Myanmar | |
| Sanskrit | क्रकुच्छंद Krakucchaṃda |
| Pāli | Kakusandha |
| Burmese | ကကုသန် ([ka̰kṵθàɰ̃]) |
| Chinese | 拘留孙佛 (Pinyin: Jūliúsūn Fó) |
| Japanese | 拘留孫仏 (romaji: Kuruson Bosatsu) |
| Khmer | ព្រះពុទ្ធកកុសន្ធោ Preah Puth Kakosantho |
| Korean | 구류손불 (RR: Guryuson Bul) |
| Mongolian | Кракучандра |
| Sinhala | කකුසඳ බුදුරාජාණන් වහන්සේ Kakusandha budurajanan wahanse |
| Thai | พระกกุสันธพุทธเจ้า Phra Kakusantha Phutthachao |
| Tibetan | འཁོར་བ་འཇིག་ Wylie: 'khor ba 'jig THL: khorwa jik |
| Vietnamese | Phật Câu Lưu Tôn |
| Information | |
| Venerated by | Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana |
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Kakusandha (Pāli), or Krakucchaṃda 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 Buddhist tradition, 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.
The present kalpa is called the bhadrakalpa (Auspicious aeon). The five Buddhas of the present kalpa are:
- Kakusandha (the first Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
- Koṇāgamana (the second Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
- Kassapa (the third Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
- Gautama (the fourth and present Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
- Maitreya (the fifth and future Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)