Gaya Kassapa, Gayā-kassapa: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesOne of the three Kassapa brothers, the Tebhatika Jatila (q.v.). On leaving the world with his brothers and becoming an ascetic, he gathered round him a company of two hundred other ascetics. They all lived at Gayasisa, hence his name (Gayasise pabbajito ti Gaya Kassapo nama jato). When Uruvela Kassapa was converted, Gaya Kassapa, with his followers, joined the Order, and at the conclusion of the Adittapariyaya Sutta they all became arahants (Vin.i.33f.; AA.i.165). Gaya Kassapa is reported (Thag.v.345f) to have said that he used to bathe three times a day at Gayatittha, in order to wash away his sins during the festival of Gayaphaggu.
In the time of Sikhi Buddha he was a householder, and later became a forest dwelling hermit. One day he saw the Buddha walking alone in the forest and offered him a kola fruit (ThagA.i.417f).
He is evidently identical with Koladayaka of the Apadana. Ap.ii.379; see also ii.483.
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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Partial matches: Kassapa, Gaya.
Full-text: Tebhatika Jatila, Koladayaka, Gayakashyapa, Adittapariyaya Sutta, Uruvela-Kassapa, Uruvela.
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The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Chapter 14 - Conversion of the Hermit Brothers and their one thousand Ascetics < [Volume 2.2]
Biography (31): Uruvela Kassapa Mahāthera < [Chapter 43 - Forty-one Arahat-Mahatheras and their Respective Etadagga titles]
The Gospel of Buddha (by Paul Carus)
Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain (by Chirantani Das)
Part 9 - Rājagṛha at the cross-roads of religious affiliations < [Chapter II - Origin and Function of Rājagṛha as the seat of Monarchy]
The Buddha and His Teachings (by Narada Thera)