Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas

by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw | 1990 | 1,044,401 words

Buddhism Theravada

Summary: Also known as the Mahabuddhavamsa, this book is a large compilation of stories involving the Buddha, formar Buddhas, Buddhist disciples, and former lives. In Theravada Buddhism, biographies of Buddhist monks and nuns are known as Apadana, while the stories of Buddha’s former lives are known as Jataka.

This great chronicle of Buddhas was compiled by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw who had a thorough understanding of the thousands and thousands of Buddhist teachings (suttas).

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The full text of the Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas in English is available here and publically accesible (free to read online). Of course, I would always recommend buying the book so you get the latest edition. You can see all this book’s content by visiting the pages in the below index:

The Author (Mingun Tipiṭakadhara Sayadaw)

The Author’s Introduction

. Chapter 1 - Salutation & Intention

. Chapter 2 - Rare Appearance of a Buddha

. Chapter 3 - Sumedha the Brahmin

. Chapter 4 - Renunciaton of Sumedha

. Chapter 5 - The Prophecy

. Chapter 6 - Reflections On Perfections

. Chapter 7 - On Miscellany

. Chapter 8 - Eighteen Abhabbaṭṭhānas

. Chapter 9 - The chronicle of twenty-four Buddhas

. Chapter 1 - The Jewel of the Buddha

. Chapter 2 - The Performance of the Ploughing Ceremony

. Chapter 3 - Seeing the Four Great Omens

. Chapter 4 - Removing His Hair and becoming a Recluse

. Chapter 5 - Learning from and Discussing with Āḷāra and Udaka

. Chapter 6 - The Practice of Severe Austerities

. Chapter 7 - The Attainment of Buddhahood

. Chapter 8 - The Buddha’s stay at the Seven Places

. Chapter 9 - The Buddha Reflecting Deeply on the Profundity of the Dhamma

. Chapter 10 - Hemavata Sutta (the story of Sātāgiri Deva and Hemavata Deva)

. Chapter 11 - Teaching The Practice Of Moral Perfection (From Nālaka Sutta)

. Chapter 12 - Yasa, Son of a Rich Merchant, becoming a Bhikkhu

. Chapter 13 - The Buddha’s first Vassa: Sending out Sixty Arahats

. Chapter 14 - Conversion of the Hermit Brothers and their one thousand Ascetics

. Chapter 15 - The buddha’s visit to Rājagaha

+ Volume 3

. Chapter 16 - The arrival of Upatissa and Kolita

. Chapter 17a - Buddha’s Journey to Kapilavatthu

. Chapter 17b - Appendix: Gotama Buddhavaṃsa (Explanatory Notes)

. Chapter 18 - Showers of ‘lotus-leaf’ at the Assembly of the Royal Families

. Chapter 19a - Ordination of One Thousand Sakyan Princes by the Buddha

. Chapter 19b - The Buddha’s Second Vassa

. Chapter 20 - The Six Princes achieved different Attainments

. Chapter 21 - Story of Sumana, Aggidatta and Jambuka

. Chapter 22 - Founding of Vesali

. Chapter 23 - The Buddha’s Fifth Vassa at Vesali

. Chapter 24 - The Buddha’s Sixth Vassa at Mount Makula

. Chapter 25 - The Buddha’s Seventh Vassa

. Chapter 26 - The Buddha’s Eighth Vassa at the Town of Susumaragira

. Chapter 27a - An Account of Rich Man Ghosaka of Kosambī Country

. Chapter 27b - The Buddha’s Ninth Vassa at Kosambī

+ Volume 4

. Chapter 28 - The Buddha’s Tenth Vassa at Pālileyyaka Forest

. Chapter 29 - The Buddha’s Eleventh Vassa at Brahmin Village of Nāḷa

. Chapter 30 - The Buddha’s Twelfth Vassa in Verañjā City

. Chapter 31 - The Monk Sudinna, the Son of the Kalanda Merchant

. Chapter 32a - The Buddha’s Thirteenth Vassa on Cālika Hill

. Chapter 32b - The Buddha’s Fourteenth Vassa at Savatthi

. Chapter 33 - The Buddha’s Fifteenth Vassa at Kapilavatthu

. Chapter 34a - The Buddha’s Seventeenth Vassa at Veḷuvana

. Chapter 34b - The Buddha’s Eighteenth Vassa at Cāliya

. Chapter 34c - The Buddha’s Nineteenth Vassa also at Cāliya Hill

. Chapter 34d - The Buddha’s Twentieth Vassa at Rājagaha

. Chapter 35 - Story of Māra

. Chapter 36 - The Buddha’s Height Measured by a Brahmin

. Chapter 37 - Story of King Ajātasattu

+ Volume 5

. Chapter 38 - Buddha’s Brahmin Parents in His Previous Existence

. Chapter 39 - How the Āṭānāṭiya Paritta came to be Taught

. Chapter 40 - The Buddha Declared the Seven Factors of Non-Decline for Rulers

. Chapter 41 - Utterings That Arouse Emotional Religious Awakening

. Chapter 42 - The Dhamma Ratanā

. Chapter 43 - Forty-one Arahat-Mahatheras and their Respective Etadagga titles

. Chapter 44 - Life Histories of Bhikkhunī Arahats

. Chapter 45a - The Life Stories of Male Lay Disciples

. Chapter 45b - Life Stories of Female Lay Disciples

. Chapter 45c - Life Stories of Rich Men with Inexhaustible Resources

+ The Anudīpanī (on the Great Chronicle of Buddhas)

. Anudīpanī (foreword)

. Chapter 1-3 - Anudīpanī on words and phrases

. Chapter 4 - The Renunciation of Sumedha

. Chapter 5 - The Prophecy

. Chapter 6 - On Pāramitā

. Chapter 1 - The Story of Sataketu Deva, The Future Buddha

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