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Pictorial Chronicle of the Buddha in Sri Lanka
日本
Pictorial Chronicle of the Buddha in Sri Lanka
- 出版社
- 文人画研究会
- 出版年月日
- 2024.04
- 価格
- \5,280
- ページ数
- 190
- ISBN番号
- 9784762995781
- 説明
- We find that ‘four asaṅkya and one hundred thousand kalpas’ ago, in other words an incredibly long time ago (asaṅkya means incalculable’ or ‘infinite’),an ascetic named Sumedha threw himself before a ‘One with Ten Powers’ named Dīpaṅkara, and thus the story of the Jātaka begins, with a scene in which Dīpaṅkara prophesies to Sumedha that ‘Many years from now, you will become a Buddha named Gotama.’
Then, in the final story of the Jātaka, no. 547, the Vessantara-Jātaka, a bodhisatta named Vessantara, who had achieved the most important of the Ten Perfections, the ‘Perfection of Dāna’(generosity, charity, almsgiving), reincarnates in the Tusita Deva World, from which bodhisattas are born before their final rebirth into the human world, and in this way the Buddha-to-be named Gotama manifests in the celestial sphere before his last rebirth, into our world.
The twenty-four Buddhas given names in the first chapter are all fully Buddhas (awakened ones), each of whom prophesy to a devotee that ‘One day you will become a