The Twenty-Four Buddhas – 96
His lifespan was 100,000 years.
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There are also some more particulars in the commentaries which are not
contained in the text but which, the commentaries state, must be told.
While leading a layman’s life, Buddha Dīpaṅkara had three palaces: Haṁsa,
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Koñca, and Mayūra.
His chief consort was Padumā Devī, who had 300,000 female attendants.
His son was Usabhakkhandha.
The duration of his reign was 10,000 years.
When he renounced the world, he went forth on an elephant.
When he became a Buddha, he lived at Nandārāma.
Living throughout such a long period, Buddha Dīpaṅkara saved a large number
of beings from suffering.
Having made the three divisions of the true Dhamma, learning (
pariyatti
),
practice (
paṭipatti
) and penetration (
paṭivedha
), shine forth throughout the
world, and having liberated beings, Buddha Dīpaṅkara and his disciples realized
final peace, the way a mass of fire goes out after blazing with bright flames.
The glory of that Buddha Dīpaṅkara, his assemblage of 400,000 Arahats, etc.,
who were all his disciples, and the signs on both his feet, have all ceased to exist.
Impermanent are all conditioned things! They are indeed unsubstantial!
In this way, Buddha Dīpaṅkara, who had penetrated all four noble truths
without exception, attained Parinibbāna at Nandārāma. In the same park was
erected a shrine (
cetiya
), 30 leagues in height and dedicated to him. It was made
of powdered red orpiment mixed with oil and butter, and in it were enshrined
his relics which were in an indestructible and undispersed mass, a natural
phenomenon common to all long-lived Buddhas. The people of Jambudīpa came
together and completed the shrine with decorations of the seven kinds of gems.
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This much is given in the Pāḷi text.