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According to the Buddhavaṃsa of the Pali Canon, Padumuttara or Padumuttara Buddha is the thirteenth of the twenty-nine buddhas who preceded the historical Gautama Buddha.
| 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 |
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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-eight cubits (between 26.51 meters, or 87 feet) high.
He practiced asceticism for seven days. He died in Nandārāma at the age of one hundred thousand, and a stūpa twelve leagues in height was erected over his relics.[2]
His life parallels that of Gautama Buddha except that he was assisted by different people and his bodhi tree was a sarala (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 the Apadāna some gods wish to build a stūpa of their own over the relics of Padumuttara. As a Tathāgata his relics were not separated. Dīpankara attained Nirvāṇa in Nandārāma, where a stūpa was built which was thirty-six yojanas high.[3]
According to the Buddhavamsa, a sacred 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, 2.25 quarts of pollen were produced. When he took another step, the previous lotus disappeared and a new one appeared.[4]
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