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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names1. Piyadassi
The thirteenth of the twenty four Buddhas. He was born in Sudhanna (Sudassana) and his mother was Sucanda (Canda). He was called Piyadassi because he showed many pleasing miracles. For nine thousand years he lived as a layman in three palaces: Sunimala Vimala and Giriguha (Giribraha). His wife was Vimala and his son Kancanavela (Kancana). He left home in a chariot and practised austerities for six months. He was given milk rice by Vasabhas daughter and grass for his seat by the Ajivaka Sujata. His, bodhi was a Kakudha tree. Among his converts were the deva king Sudassana and the elephant Donamukha. A monk named Sona conspired with Prince Mahapaduma to kill the Buddha, Donamukha being the elephant they used in their unsuccessful plot. cp. Nalagiri.
Piyadassis chief disciples were Palita and Sabbadassi among monks and Sujata and Dhammadinna among nuns, his constant attendant being Sobhita. Sannaka and Dhammika were his chief lay patrons among men, and Visakhi and Dhammadinna among women. He lived for ninety thousand years and died at Assattharama, his thupa being three leagues in height.
The Bodhisatta of that time was a brahmin named Kassapa, and he built a monastery for the Buddha at a cost of one hundred thousand crores. Bu.xiv.1ff.; BuA.172ff.; J.i.38f., etc.
2. PiyadassiA Pacceka Buddha. M.iii.69; Ap.i.106.
3. Piyadassi TheraAn arahant. He was present with sixty thousand others, from Jetarama, at the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (Dpv.xix.15; Mhv.xxix.32). He stood on the north east side at the ceremony, and at the close of it he preached to Dutthagamani. Ibid., 65; MT. 531.
4. PiyadassiA setthi of Sudassananigama, whose daughter gave milk rice to Sikhi Buddha. BaA. 201.
5. PiyadassiA Thera of Ceylon, incumbent of the Devaraja vihara. He was a pupil of the grammarian Moggallana and wrote the Pali grammar, Padasadhana. P.L.C. 205.
6. PiyadassiA name for Dhammasoka.
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 (+26): Asattharama, Sudhanna, Giriguha, Kancanavela, Pabbharadayaka, Papanivariya, Vedikaraka, Donamukha, Padasadhana, Hemaka, Sannaka, Shubhavati, Bhikkhunivagga, Tambapupphiya, Devaraja, Padumakutagariya, Sucanda, Usabhavati, Twenty Eight Buddhas, Palita.
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Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Buddha Chronicle 13: Piyadassī Buddhavaṃsa < [Chapter 9 - The chronicle of twenty-four Buddhas]
Supplement (d): The Eight Differences (vematta) < [Chapter 9 - The chronicle of twenty-four Buddhas]
Supplement (a): Brief Statement of Future Buddha Gotama’s Live < [Chapter 9 - The chronicle of twenty-four Buddhas]
Apadana commentary (Atthakatha) (by U Lu Pe Win)
Commentary on the Biography of the thera Sumaṅgala < [Chapter 2 - Sīhāsaniyavagga (lion-throne section)]
Various other 22 Buddhas < [Part 1 - Remote preface (dūre-nidāna)]
Gaining Of Perfections By Bodhisat < [Part 1 - Remote preface (dūre-nidāna)]
Abhidhamma And Practice (by Nina van Gorkom)
Buddhist Ceremonies and Rituals of Sri Lanka (by A. G. S. Kariyawasam)
Mahavamsa (by Wilhelm Geiger)
Socially Engaged Buddhism (with reference to Australian society) (by Phuong Thi Thu Ngo)