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The ''Buddhavamsa'' (also known as the ''Chronicle of Buddhas'') is a hagiographical Buddhist text which describes the life of Gautama Buddha and of the twenty-four previous Buddhas who had prophesied his attainment of Buddhahood.〔 It is the fourteenth book of the ''Khuddaka Nikāya'', which in turn is the fifth and last division of the ''Sutta Piṭaka''. The ''Sutta Piṭaka'' is one of three ''pitakas'' (main sections) which together constitute the ''Tripiṭaka'', or ''Pāli Canon'' of Theravāda Buddhism. Along with the ''Apadāna'' and the ''Cariyāpiṭaka'', the ''Buddhavamsa'' is considered by most scholars to have been written during the 1st and 2nd century BCE, and is therefore a late addition to the Pāli Canon.〔A textual and Historical Analysis of the Khuddaka Nikaya – Oliver Abeynayake Ph. D. , Colombo, First Edition – 1984, p. 113.〕〔 ==Summary== The first chapter tells how Gautama Buddha, to demonstrate his supernormal knowledge, creates a jewelled walkway in the sky.〔 In seeing this display, Sāriputta asks the Buddha: :"Of what kind, great hero, supreme among men, was your resolve? At what time, wise one, was supreme Awakening aspired to by you? ... Of what kind, wise one, leader of the world, were your ten perfections? How were the higher perfections fulfilled, how the ultimate perfections?"〔 In response, the Buddha relays the remainder of the Buddhavamsa.〔 In the second chapter Gautama tells how in a distant past life as Sumedha, he received a prediction from the then Dīpankara Buddha that "In the next era you will become a buddha named Śākyamuni.", and thought out the ten perfections he would need to practice. Chapters 3 through 26 are accounts of the twenty-four historical Buddhas who preceded Gautama Buddha, and the acts of merit that Gautama Buddha performed towards them in his previous lives. Chapter 27 is an account of the life of Gautama Buddha.〔 Chapter 28 mentions three Buddhas that preceded Dīpankara,〔〔 as well as the future Buddha, Maitreya.〔〔 Chapter 29 tells of the distribution of the Buddha's relics after his death.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buddhavamsa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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