The Twenty-Four Buddhas – 183
After seeing the four omens, he renounced the world riding a thoroughbred
horse named Soṇuttara.
He practised the austerities for eight months.
His two male chief disciples were Ven. Brahmadeva and Ven. Udaya.
His attendant was Ven. Samaṅga.
His two female chief disciples were Ven. Phussā and Ven. Sudattā.
His Bodhi tree was an Indian Laurel (
Asana
) tree.
His noble male supporters were the wealthy persons, Sambala and Sirima.
His noble female supporters were Kisā Gotamī and Upasenā.
Buddha Tissa was ten cubits tall. He was matchless and unequalled. He appeared
like a mountain in the Himālayas, to those who saw him.
The lifespan of Buddha Tissa, who was endowed with incomparable psychic
power, was neither too short not too long. Buddha Tissa, the possessor of the
five eyes, lived in the world for 100,000 years.
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Buddha Tissa, who had dispelled the darkness of ignorance (
avijjā
), after
enjoying great fame, which surpassed the fame of those highly noble and
admirable personages, attained Parinibbāna with his many Arahat disciples, just
as a mass of fire that had become extinct after burning very brightly.
In this way, Buddha Tissa, conqueror of the five kinds of death (
māra
), attained
Parinibbāna in Nanda Park, near Sunandavatī city. In that very park, a three
leagues high shrine was erected, in the same way as mentioned with previous
Buddhas, and was dedicated to Buddha Tissa.
18. The Chronicle of Buddha Phussa
After Buddha Tissa’s Parinibbāna in that aeon of two Buddhas (
maṇḍa-kappa
),
the human lifespan decreased from 100,000 years to ten years and then
increased to immeasurables. When it reached 90,000 years on its next decline,
Bodhisatta Phussa, on completion of his perfections, was reborn in Tusita which
was a practice common to all Bodhisattas. Having accepted the request made by
Devas and Brahmas to become a Buddha, he descended to the human world to be
conceived in the womb of Queen Sirimā, consort of King Jayasena, in the city of
Kāsika. When ten months had elapsed, the Bodhisatta was born in Sirimā Park.