Kakusandha
| Kakusandha Buddha | |
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North-facing Kakusandha Buddha, Ananda Temple, Myanmar | |
| Sanskrit | क्रकुच्छंद Krakucchanda |
| Pāli | Kakusandha |
| Burmese | ကကုသန် ([ka̰kṵθàɰ̃]) |
| Chinese | 拘留孙佛 (Pinyin: Jūliúsūn Fó) |
| Japanese | 拘留孫仏 (romaji: Kuruson Butsu) |
| 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 | 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 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.
The present kalpa is called the bhadrakalpa "auspicious aeon". The five Buddhas of the present kalpa are:
- Kakusandha
- Koṇāgamana
- Kassapa
- Gautama
- Maitreya