Kasyapa

[ kahsh-yuhp-uh ]

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noun

an important disciple of the Buddha who called together a council of Arhats after the death of the Buddha to compose the Pali Canon.

Kasyapa hath said that thou art Sacrifice sprung from Truth!

Brahma himself told this unto his (spiritual) sons, as testified to by Kasyapa.

And that son of Kasyapa, Vibhandaka, having proceeded to a big lake, devoted himself to the practice of penances.

Fifty le to the west of the city bring (the traveller) to a town named Too-wei, the birthplace of Kasyapa Buddha.

Over the entire relic of the whole body of him, the Kasyapa Tathagata, a great tope was also erected.

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