ཐམས་ཅད་སྐྱོབ། | Glossary of Terms

One of the six buddhas who preceded Śākyamuni in this Fortunate Eon.

A buddha in the past.

A buddha in the past.

In early Buddhism the first of the seven buddhas, with Śākyamuni as the seventh. The first three buddhas‍—Vipaśyin, Śikhin, and Viśvabhu‍—are in an earlier eon than the Bhadraka eon, and therefore Śākyamuni is more commonly referred to as the fourth buddha. In The White Lotus of Compassion Sūtra, those three Buddhas are the last of thirty of countless buddhas preceding Śākyamuni, and when the Buddha Ratnagarbha prophesies the buddhahood of Samudrareṇu’s thirty million pupils, the last three pupils, unnamed, are prophesied by the Buddha Ratnagarbha to become the Buddhas Vipaśyin, Śikhin, and Viśvabhu.

The third of the seven buddhas, with Śākyamuni as the seventh (in some texts his name is rendered kun skyobs in Tibetan).

One of the tathāgatas.The third of the seven buddhas, with Śākyamuni as the seventh. Identified in other texts as the last buddha to appear in the eon that preceded the present one.

The third of the six buddhas who preceded Śākyamuni.

“Protector of All.”

The third of the seven tathāgatas/buddhas. Identified in other texts as the last buddha to appear in the eon that preceded the present one.

A previous buddha.

A buddha in a previous eon.

One of the tathāgatas (possibly the same as Viśvabhuk).

Third of the seven buddhas of the past.

One of the six buddhas who preceded Śākyamuni in this Fortunate Eon.

One of the six buddhas who preceded Śākyamuni in this Fortunate Eon.

The third of seven successive buddhas among whom Śākyamuni is the seventh.

In early Buddhism, the third of the seven buddhas, with Śākyamuni as the seventh. The first three buddhas‍—Vipaśyin, Śikhin, and Viśvabhu‍—are in an earlier eon than the Bhadraka eon, and therefore Śākyamuni is more commonly referred to as the fourth buddha.

In early Buddhism, the third of the seven buddhas, with Śākyamuni as the seventh. The first three buddhas‍—Vipaśyin, Śikhin, and Viśvabhu‍—are in an earlier eon than the Bhadraka eon, and therefore Śākyamuni is more commonly referred to as the fourth buddha.

In early Buddhism the third of seven buddhas, with Śākyamuni as the seventh. The first three buddhas‍—Vipaśyin, Śikhin, and Viśvabhuk‍—appeared in a kalpa earlier than our Bhadra kalpa, and therefore Śākyamuni is more commonly referred to as the fourth buddha.