List of the 28 Buddhas

In most Theravada

Theravada

Theravada Theravada Theravada (Pāli: थेरवाद theravāda (cf Sanskrit: स्थविरवाद sthaviravāda); literally, "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the Ancient Teaching", is the oldest surviving Buddhist school. It was founded in India...

 countries it is the custom for Buddhists to hold elaborate festivals to honor 29 Buddhas. For example, in various parts of Myanmar, festivals are held to pay homage to 29 Buddhas, especially in the fair weather season. The twenty-eight Buddhas are said to have attained enlightenment from the time Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha

Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the north eastern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is regarded by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c...

 attained his first definite prophecy (assurance that one will definitely become a Buddha one day) from Dipankara

Dipankara

Dipankara one of the Buddhas of the past, said to have lived on Earth one hundred thousand years.Theoretically, the number of Buddhas having existed is enormous and they are...

 Buddha.

In most Theravada

Theravada

Theravada Theravada Theravada (Pāli: थेरवाद theravāda (cf Sanskrit: स्थविरवाद sthaviravāda); literally, "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the Ancient Teaching", is the oldest surviving Buddhist school. It was founded in India...

 countries it is the custom for Buddhists to hold elaborate festivals to honor 29 Buddhas. For example, in various parts of Myanmar, festivals are held to pay homage to 29 Buddhas, especially in the fair weather season. The twenty-eight Buddhas are said to have attained enlightenment from the time Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha

Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the north eastern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is regarded by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c...

 attained his first definite prophecy (assurance that one will definitely become a Buddha one day) from Dipankara

Dipankara

Dipankara one of the Buddhas of the past, said to have lived on Earth one hundred thousand years.Theoretically, the number of Buddhas having existed is enormous and they are...

 Buddha. Unless as also Gauthama Buddha has preached, there lived innumerable buddhas in the past kappas. According to most Buddhist traditions, Maitreya Bodhisattva

Maitreya

Maitreya or Metteyya is a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology. In some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, he is referred to as Ajita Bodhisattva....

 is expected to be the next Buddha.

The names of 29 Buddhas

	Pāli Pali language Pali is a Middle Indo-Aryan language of India. It is best known as the language of the earliest extant Buddhist scriptures, as collected in the Pāi Canon or Tipitaka, and as the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism....  name
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4	Dīpankara Dipankara Dipankara one of the Buddhas of the past, said to have lived on Earth one hundred thousand years.Theoretically, the number of Buddhas having existed is enormous and they are...
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7	Sumana
8	Revata
9	Sobhita
10	Anomadassi
11	Paduma
12	Nārada
13	Padumuttara
14	Sumedha
15	Sujāta
16	Piyadassi
17	Atthadassi
18	Dhammadassi
19	Siddhattha
20	Tissa
21	Phussa
22	Vipassi
23	Sikhi
24	Vessabhū
25	Kakusandha Kakusandha In Buddhist tradition, Kakusandha is the name of the twenty-fifth Buddha, the first of the five Buddhas of the present era, and the fourth of the seven ancient Buddhas. In the Buddhist texts in Sanskrit, this Buddha is known as Krakucchanda...
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27	Kassapa Kassapa Buddha In Buddhist tradition, Kassapa is the name of a Buddha, the third of the five Buddhas of the present aeon , and the sixth of the six Buddhas prior to the historical Buddha mentioned in the earlier parts of the Pali Canon...
28	Gautama Gautama Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the north eastern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is regarded by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c...
29	Maitreya Maitreya Maitreya or Metteyya is a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology. In some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, he is referred to as Ajita Bodhisattva....

See also

• List of Buddhas
• List of Buddha claimants
• List of bodhisattvas