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Does everyone know this? Lord Buddha, right? There is only one.
Hello, Brother Jay, Channel P'Piew. I believe that no matter who it is, Buddhists or non-Buddhists, Buddhism should have a picture of the Buddha. In my head, it's quite the same that it's a monk. This is what the Buddha looks like. Or is it a Buddha statue or something? And it is made from the image of the Buddha, anyway.
Yes, I have heard the saying that there are 5 Buddhas or that there are 5 Buddhas. As many as the sands in the ocean, is that enough for you to hear? Many people might be a little confused, like, "Huh? Me?" I have always understood that the Buddha has a self. Why do people say this?
In conclusion, it's a monk. How many Buddhas are there today? So I collected these stories. Now I have told you that in summary, the Buddha has... How many of you are ready to listen to the story? Now that it's fun and informative, let's listen.
Yes, normally when we call a monk "Lord Buddha," does everyone know that? We are not calling the name of the Buddha. It's just that we call each position separately. That Buddha means one who is awakened, to those who discover the truth of the world.
That is normally when we call on the Lord Buddha. Buddha, we are calling Buddha. The position of a person, which is someone we are familiar with. The most important one is Prince Siddhartha of the Kodom family, right? Then he grew up, became ordained, and became enlightened, thus becoming a Buddha. We will call him Lord Buddha Kodom.
But when we talk about it in full, we mean the Buddha who was a monk of the Gotama clan. It is different from the view that tells the story of the Lord Buddha. Lord Buddha, the Samana Gotama, is quite detailed in the clip. You can listen anywhere in history. In Buddhist history, it's exactly like that.
As you can see here, when we say "Phra" Buddha, it is a title. This means that this position does not necessarily mean that there must be only one person who is the Buddha. But there may be others who have been in the position of monk. The Buddha came before the ascetic Gotama, or maybe there were others who came to use this position after the monk Kodom.
You can call it something like this. Many people believe that he will become a monk soon. The future Buddha is Phra Sri Ar or Phra Is it Sri Ariya Maitreya? He said so. When will I become enlightened in this era? That era was a peaceful era, an era that the golden age was when there was no war.
Yes, one point that makes us see that in reality and in Buddhism, there is a belief that there is not only one Buddha. Buddha is only a title, however. Yes, our question today is, according to the Buddhists, how many Buddhas are there?
Let's take a look before we answer the question. That's it. We need to talk about that first. According to Buddhist beliefs, there is not only one form of Buddha, but two forms. First of all, this is the view. I must tell everyone first that because of what we are going to talk about today, it's a matter of belief, so in each group, there will be different beliefs.
Even Buddhists have their own beliefs, different stories of Buddha in each sect, which is the main thing that the view is going to talk about today. Telling everyone will be like believing in the sect. Theravada Sri Lankan style is the Thai style, Thai Thai style. So, in other sects, there will be some later. We may mention some and touch on some, but we stick to the point. Theravada Sri Lankan style is the main one.
Which in Theravada belief, it is not... This means that we can immediately answer that it is a monk. How many Buddhas were there? Because before we answer that question, we must first know that Theravada beliefs do not have the Buddha in the same format, but there are 2 formats.
Yes, we may have heard this word before. Study the life story of the Buddha. The first form is the Paccekabuddha. Buddha, Pacceka means alone. You're the only one, right? It means it's like you're here. A Paccekabuddha is a person who studies and practices anything until the truth is discovered. Nature is enlightenment, right? It's awakening.
I know that the real world is like this. After enlightenment, the person who becomes a monk, a Paccekabuddha, is someone who makes a decision. Oh, now that you know, keep quiet. Now that you know, stay quiet. With yourself and then nirvana leaves, simply put. It means that you are a person who has woken up and seen the truth. Just continue living your own life without interfering. What does it have to do with anyone? After that, he died.
While the second group is the group of people who we will call the Lord Buddha. This group is made up of people who practice asceticism. They study things until they find the truth. Nature is the same, enlightenment is the same, but after attaining enlightenment, people who go in the line of the Lord Buddha are the ones who cut.
They decide that they will find the truth. Naturally, they want to spread, they want to teach. Let other people know this truth. It is like someone who is awake. When I got up, I felt like everyone else was still asleep. I want to go wake up other people too.
If we think about it in this logic of belief, this is actually in the past. Before the time of the Lord Buddha, there should be someone in the Samana Kodom who is a Paccekabuddha. Buddha is everywhere and has become enlightened. They came and then left quietly without telling anyone.
Yes, if we assume that we study the life history of the Buddha, here we will see that there is a period in the life story of the Lord Buddha praying to float the tray in the water, right? Then the tray moved upstream and then sank. The area where the Naga was located appeared to have sunk. There are actually several trays below.
The previous address in the life story of the Buddha will be explained as belonging to the Buddha. Other Paccekabuddhas who have risked their trays before we even started to see him, oh really. And according to Buddhist beliefs, there are many Paccekabuddhas before the time of the monk Kodom who will attain enlightenment and become the Lord Buddha, the Perfectly Enlightened One.
And if that's not enough, if we assume that we go and look at the commentaries or a scripture written to explain the Tripitaka, here we can see that there are various spells written regarding the Paccekabuddha. There are 41 verses in total, so many scholars... Everyone will agree that there were 41 Buddhas in total.
However, during the time of the Lord Buddha, some scholars will say that we count like this: that doesn't mean there are 41 records, but that doesn't mean there are only 41; there could be more. There's so much that we'll never know because each of them is enlightened by themselves and then leaving quietly without saying anything.
Who is it? So the more interesting question is, the Lord Buddha, the Lord Buddha, how many of these religious preachers are there? Of course, now if we assume that we want the answer, we have to look back. One thing is that it's a universe. Buddhism, how does Buddhism view the world and the universe?
Because during the time of Buddha, it was set that within this time period, how many Buddhas will there be in the first place? The last thing we need to know is that Buddhism is not... You can see the timeline as a straight line, right? It starts here and ends here, but people who are Buddhists will look at it this way. Time is a circle; everything is a cycle.
Revolving and reincarnating, born, then die, then die and then come back to life. Something new like this keeps coming out, right? So since Buddhism believes in every living being has gone through the cycle of birth and death, everything in the world is born and dies in a cycle. The world is born in a cycle of birth and death.
It's a cycle; imagine the universe in your mind. In Buddhism, everything is twisted and coiled together. How many hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or times more? I don't know when because it is endless, right? So the saying goes, "Phra," there are as many Buddhas as the sands in the ocean.
This is not an exaggeration at all because in Timeline 1, the word "timeline" is used in Timeline 1, which is revolving. There may be a Buddha of oneself or there may not be a Buddha of oneself. That's just 1 timeline, but now we're talking about a spiraling timeline. Cycles are an infinite number of cycles.
I don't know how many there are because there are so many. There are so many that I don't know how to count them, so he compares it to the universe. There are many Buddhas who reside in the universe, which is so vast. The grains of sand in the ocean are countless.
It is me, among the cycles that view. Speaking of which, view said that some cycles might have some Buddha cycles, while others may not have this. He also explained this as well: in a rotating universe with a Buddhist timeline, there is also a division of time, which he will call 1 period of time 1 kalpa.
In fact, there is an explanation of how much 1 kalpa is. View has explained it before. How long have you been in this clip for? Go listen to that, but let's say that 1 kalpa is a period of time. In each kalpa, some kalpas will not have some Buddhas.
There will be more than one Buddha in a kalpa, according to Buddhist beliefs. It is called a kalpa in which no Buddha has attained enlightenment. So, this is called a lost kalpa, which is like a kalpa. Zero is a zero-sum game that has no gods. It's the Buddha.
In the kalpa where there are monks, when the Buddha became enlightened, this is what they call it. That Asuna Kalpa is a Kalpa that is not zero. Having a Buddha does not mean that there is only 1 Buddha in 1 kalpa. It can be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., which is the maximum of 5.
And in each number that is broken down, if they are different, they will have different names. It is the same as the view that is shown above. This is like the five Buddhas, which is called the Bhadrakalpa. You will be especially familiar with this word because in the Kalpa we live according to Buddhist beliefs.
This kalpa is Bhadrakalpa, which is the kalpa with the Lord Buddha. It was five Buddhas who attained enlightenment. Imagine that in a large circle that rotates. This time we cut it out for a while. We are in the floor with 5 Buddhas and us.
It is in this timeline that is in the era of, according to beliefs, Lord Buddha Samana Kodom. There were three Buddhas before Samana Kodom, namely Kakusandha Buddha, Lord Konakam Buddha, and Lord Kassapa Buddha. And now we are in the Gautama Buddha.
Is the Buddha from the Kotama clan or from the Kodom family? Or what is it that has a conjugation? Oh, but let's say that now we are in the temple. Lord Buddha, and according to belief, after this era, there will be the fifth Buddha, which is Phra Sri A or Phra It is Sri Ariya Maitreya, which is the story that in this era, there are 5 Buddhas, who are the inspiration for various works of art.
There are many, such as the story of Mother Crow. The taro that is said in folk tales is because he was the creator of the five previous lives of the Buddha that we will see in his work. The art of Buddha is five Buddhas stacked together in a way that many people like to call it. That's not Pang Anman.
That's He is working on an artwork that represents all five Buddhas who attained enlightenment in this era. Yes, the question is, what knowledge do they get from the scriptures? Where does this come from in Buddhism? This one also says that it is based on beliefs.
I believe that this is what the Buddha is. He told Sariputta that he would be in. There is a scripture called the Future Vongsa in it. This will explain our future Buddha. Then you will know about Phra Sri Ariya Maitreya. We don't just know about Lord Sri Ariya Maitreya.
In this scripture, there are also 10 more Buddhas who will attain enlightenment. From here, it's when we were in Phattharakap. There will be one more Phra Sri A left. After that, there might be more after that. Go ahead and do it again, just like the name that the view gives you.
If you stay, you will see that there will be another Buddha. There are so many more besides this. There are scriptures that say that the Buddha said this to the Buddha in the past as well. Not only the four famous ones are mentioned. Just now, but I'll tell you about the previous part.
That was before a lot because according to we are familiar with various Jataka tales. It is good that we will call those who are about to become enlightened. Is it the Buddha that is called Bodhisattva? According to Theravada belief, the Bodhisattva is: people who are practicing various things for that he will soon become enlightened and become a Buddha.
Is this the future? And in Buddhist beliefs? Since the universe goes round and round, the cycle of rebirth continues, which means that in previous lives, the Buddha, when he was still a monk, Bodhisattvas may also have the opportunity to be born in the era. It might have happened during the time when there were other Buddhas.
Yes, so when many people read Jataka tales, then I was confused and thought, "Wait a minute. A Bodhisattva is a person who is about to become enlightened as the Lord Buddha Gotama. Why do we know the Buddha in the period?" In the time of the Bodhisattva, there were still monks.
There are other Buddhas; it's a concept. This is it among all the Jataka tales. In the Buddhist scriptures, the name is also recorded. Previous Buddhas who were in the same camp during the time of the Bodhisattva were 27 of them, which means that in total, what we are talking about is that the timeline will be more than 1 kalpa because in this kalpa there are only 5 Buddhas, right?
The answer to the question is, what is the conclusion of the Buddhas? How many Buddhas there are depends on... Let's see how big the frame is. Asked whether we are currently in the era of the Buddha, how many Buddhas are we living in these times? There is only one Buddha, the Samana Gotama.
Or Prince Siddhattha who became the enlightened Buddha, right? But if we look at the big time frame, it's 1 kalpa. In 1 kalpa, we are in the era. There are 5 Buddhas in total. If you look a little bigger, take the one that has the records in the scriptures, which will have a total of 27 Buddhas before the Lord Buddha Gotama, right?
There were another 10 Buddhas after the Lord Buddha Gotama, so the total number of names that appear is 38 of them in total. If we step back all the way and look at the biggest frame, the answer to the question of the eternal universe is easy. There are many Buddhas, countless like the grains of sand in the ocean.
You, when we were talking a moment ago, is this a Theravada belief? However, as we all know, religion has many sects of Buddhism, and one of them is the Mahayana sect, which believes in different numbers of Buddhas.
Because if we observe when we go to Chinese temples, or at what temple do we see that there are monks? The Buddha statues are always lined up with 3 statues. In conclusion, the Mahayana side sees that there are Buddhas. How many Buddhas are there? The three that were mentioned are the same Buddha.
Or not, this one has to be said. It comes from his belief because on the other side, Mahayana believes that the Buddha did not have only one body, and this will appear in a sutra called Visutna. In there, there will be a message that says that the Buddha said whoever sees the Dhamma sees me in this way.
From the Mahayana text, he further developed his ideas until it became a concept called Trikaya. Or is it the idea that the Buddha has 3 bodies, which are: 1. Nirmanakaya? Refers to the physical body that is subject to the law of three characteristics. Well, that's what the human body is like. It has arisen and then ceased.
As for the second body, it is the Dhammakaya, which is on the other side. Mahayana believes that it is the body of Dharma, the body that is the universal truth of the Buddha. It does not depend on the location and does not depend on time.
And the final body that they believe in is the Sambhokkayakaya, which is a body like a radiant radiance that will appear to the Lord. High Bodhisattva, deva, or one who does good, which is from the belief in the Mahayana side that is like the Buddha.
What is Dhammakaya that leads to this idea? The story of the Ascension Buddha or Chinna Buddha. That is, he will believe in the story of the Buddha that did not come down with a physical body like the Lord Buddha Kodom.
Did not come down to the human world, but the Lord Buddha will be in the form of a Sambhogakaya, which will always be there to support animals in the past, in the present, and in the future in a land called Buddha Kshetra. It sounds familiar to us, right?
According to Mahayana beliefs, Buddhakshetra will be the land of happiness, in between heaven and Nirvana. For us Thai people, you may be familiar with the name of Phra Chinna. Some Buddhas, whether they are the Great Vairocana of the Amitabha Buddha, appear in various arts of the Mahayana side, such as the obvious one would be Amitabha, right?
We should look up to him. Have you ever heard this when we watch Chinese series? Anything that has to do with the Buddha will have it. This Buddha has appeared to us. It's a bit confusing that the Buddha didn't attain nirvana. You've left already, so why are you still able to come back to help animals? What can you do?
This is the belief of the Mahayana side, which is different from the Theravada side. And with this belief, it makes the time that if we look at Mahayana art, we will see that there are Buddhas appearing everywhere. There are many types of Buddha, Lord Buddha, Lord Buddha, Lord Buddha, because of the Mahayana shore.
He believes that there is a Buddha. There are many, and they exist all the time. Unlike the Theravada side that we just talked about. Let's continue to say that there are many Buddhas, the grains in the ocean, but in one era of the coast, Theravada does not mean that there will be two Buddhas at the same time.
One Buddha will be in His era, and after that, when the era ends, this is the beginning of a new Buddha. So this video clip must be told to everyone. I would like to apologize in advance for the many people who have come in. Looking at it, I expected to know the number of Buddhas.
Exactly, I still can't answer everyone. As usual, how many Buddhas are there? It's definitely true what we know from the video clip. This is not a Theravada belief or the belief in the Mahayana side. It is as if there are many Buddhas everywhere.
It's an infinite number; we can't count them all. Because the concept of looking at the world in Buddhist times is all about the cycle of existence that will revolve around birth and death. It just goes out.
Let's just say that if anyone... If you like this clip, don't forget to press like. Encourage views and click share to invite friends. Let's watch together and see you next time.
Hello everyone, goodbye, hello, really. Nowadays, we feel that Buddhism is pretty clear about what the sects are, right? Like, are we Thais Theravada or Chinese? What is Mahayana?
But it is actually in Thailand? Now, if we look at the land in Thailand, in ancient times, there were quite a few sects mixed together. Just like in Thailand, we also had a period of time when Mahayana has similar periods because if we go, if you look at the ancient Thai prayers, we will find them.
One of the chapters he will chant begins with the words: Sambuddha, which in this chapter will mention the number of Buddhas the same. So let's talk about it. That there are millions of Buddhas, this verse is used.
We've been together for a while now, just recently started writing again during the Rattanakosin period, not long ago. So it's like evidence. I mean, in the past, Buddhism was really... We Thais also have Mahayana Buddhism that has only just arrived.
It's like the payment has just been made clear. This is this sect, this is that sect. We believed this way even in the Rattanakosin period. That's it, I hope it gives everyone a clear picture. Is Buddhism in Thailand becoming clearer or not?
See the image of the concept of belief in the world. The Buddhist universe is quite clear. It's up. Let's just say that we'll look for it another day. Stories about the world and the universe of various religions, whether it's Buddhism or other religions, come tell me.
And again, of course, religion. Niew believes that many people probably have this feeling. Know more than the view, so if you assume that someone wants to add anything, please comment below. Kwiw would be very happy to take my leave for today. That's all for now, everyone. Bye-bye and hello.