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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe son of a setthi in Bhaddiya. He was worth eighty crores, and was brought up in luxury like that of the Bodhisatta in his last birth. When Bhaddaji was grown up, the Buddha came to Bhaddiya to seek him out, and stayed at the Jatiyavana with a large number of monks. Thither Bhaddaji went to hear him preach. He became an arahant, and, with his fathers consent, was ordained by the Buddha. Seven weeks later he accompanied the Buddha to Kotigama, and, while the Buddha was returning thanks to a pious donor on the way, Bhaddaji retired to the bank of the Ganges outside the village, where he stood wrapt in jhana, emerging only when the Buddha came by, not having heeded the preceding chief theras. He was blamed for this; but, in order to demonstrate the attainments of Bhaddaji, the Buddha invited him to his own ferry boat and bade him work a wonder. Bhaddaji thereupon raised from the river bed, fifteen leagues into the air, a golden palace twenty leagues high, in which he had lived as Mahapanada. On this occasion the Mahapanada or Suruci Jataka was preached.
The Mahavamsa account (xxxi.37ff) says that, before raising Mahapanadas palace, Bhaddaji rose into the air to the height of seven palmyra trees, holding the Dussa Thupa from the Brahma world in his hand. He then dived into the Ganges and returned with the palace. The brahmin Nanduttara, whose hospitality the Buddha and his monks had accepted, saw this miracle of Bhaddaji, and himself wished for similar power by which he might procure relics in the possession of others. He was reborn as the novice Sonuttara, who obtained the relics for the thupas of Ceylon.
In the time of Padumuttara Buddha, Bhaddaji was a brahmin ascetic who, seeing the Buddha travelling through the air, offered him honey, lotus stalks, etc. Soon after he was struck by lightning and reborn in Tusita. In the time of Vipassi Buddha he was a very rich setthi and fed sixty eight thousand monks, to each of whom he gave three robes. Later, he ministered to five hundred Pacceka Buddhas. In a subsequent birth his son was a Pacceka Buddha, and he looked after him and built a cetiya over his remains after his death. Thag.vs.163f.; ThagA.i.285ff.; also J.ii.331ff., where the details vary slightly; J.iv.325; also MT.560f
Bhaddaji is identified with Sumana of the Mahanarada Kassapa Jataka (J.vi.255).
He is probably identical with Bhisadayaka of the Apadana (Ap.ii.420f). Bhaddaji is mentioned among those who handed down the Abhidhamma to the Third Council (DhSA.32).
See also Bhaddaji Sutta.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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Starts with: Bhaddaji Sutta.
Full-text: Sunama, Bhaddaji Sutta, Bhadrajit, Dussa Thupa, Payaga, Bhisadayaka, Mahapanada, Jatiyavana, Nanduttara, Kotigama, Bhaddiya, Sonuttara, Shankha, Apadana, Ghositarama, Suruci Jataka.
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The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Jataka 264: Mahā-Panāda-jātaka < [Book III - Tika-Nipāta]
Jataka 489: Suruci-jātaka < [Volume 4]
Jataka 544: Mahānāradakassapa-jātaka < [Volume 6]
The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 3 - Definition of Kappa or Aeon < [Chapter 1-3 - Anudīpanī on words and phrases]
Mahavamsa (by Wilhelm Geiger)