Mahapadana Sutta, Mahāpadāna-sutta: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe fourteenth sutta of the Digha Nikaya. It gives an account of the general events attendant on the advent of a Buddha, and gives various facts connected with the Buddhas, with details of seven Buddhas by way of illustration. But it is only the life of Vipassi, the first of the seven Buddhas preceding Gotama, which is at all elaborately treated.
The sutta was preached at the Karerimandapa in Jetavana, and was the result of a conversation among the monks, in which they expressed the desire to know something of the births of previous Buddhas (D.ii.6 54). It is noteworthy that the Cullaniddesa (p. 80) cites the sutta as a typical example of the earlier Jatakas. Some regard it as the basis of the Mahavastu.
The sutta is held in great esteem and is called in the Commentaries (E.g., DA.ii.480) the King of Suttas (Suttantaraja), because no other sutta contains so many bhanvaras (one hundred and twenty six).
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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Full-text: Karerikutika, Salalagara, Akanittha Deva, Lakshana, Cakkavatti, Apadana, First Antarakalpa.
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Buddhist Monastic Discipline (by Jotiya Dhirasekera)
Appendix I - The Exclusion of Guilty Monks (from the recital of the patimokkha)
Chapter IV - The Foundations of Monastic Life (sila, sikkha and sikkhapada)
The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 5 - The Birth of The Bodhisatta < [Chapter 1 - The Story of Sataketu Deva, The Future Buddha]
Part 2 - The Request made to the Bodhisatta Deva < [Chapter 1 - The Story of Sataketu Deva, The Future Buddha]
Part 4 - The Birth of the Bodhisatta < [Chapter 1 - The Jewel of the Buddha]
Guide to Tipitaka (by U Ko Lay)
(b) Maha Vagga Pali < [Chapter IV - Suttanta Pitaka]
Philosophy of language in the Five Nikayas (by K.T.S. Sarao)
2.5(b). Dīgha Nikāya (The Long Discourses of the Buddha) < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
A Discourse on Paticcasamuppada (by Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw)