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WARREN: BUDDHISM IN TRANSLATIONS |
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§ 2. A List of the Former Buddhas Translated from the Introduction to the J¤taka (i.43.28).
Now in the same world-cycle that saw D¨pamkara, The One Possessing the Ten Forces, there were also three other Buddhas; but as none of them prophesied concerning the Future Buddha, I have not mentioned them. In the Commentary, however, all the Buddhas are mentioned from the beginning of that world-cycle on, as follows: --
Our Future Buddha, in his passage through four immensities and a hundred thousand world-cycles to the present time, [33] has made his wish under twenty-four of these Buddhas beginning with D¨pamkara. But since Kassapa, The Blessed One, there has been no Supreme Buddha excepting our present one. Accordingly, our Future Buddha has received recognition at the hands of twenty-four Buddhas beginning with D¨pamkara.
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