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Tissa Buddha

The seventeenth of the twenty-four Buddhas.

• He was born in the Anomā pleasance in Khemaka.
• His father was Janasandha (v.l. Saccasandha) and his mother Padumā.
• He lived the household life for seven thousand years, in three palaces — Guhāsala, Nārī (Nārisa), and Nisabha
• He left the world on a horse named Soṇuttara.
• For eight months he practised austerities.
• After a meal of milk-rice given by the daughter of Vīraseṭṭhi of Vīragāma,
• he sat on grass given by a grain-watcher (yavapālaka) named Vijitasaṅgāma
• He attained Buddhahood under an asana tree.
• He taught his first discourse at Yasavatī to Brahmadeva and Udaya (Udayana) of Haṃsavatī, who later became his chief disciples.
• His attendant was Samaṅga (Sambhava)
• His chief patrons being Sambala and Siri among men and Kisāgotamī and Upasenā among women.
• His chief women disciples were Phussā and Sudattā.
• His body was sixty cubits high.
• After a life of one hundred thousand years he died at Nandārāma (Sunandārāma) in Sunandavatī.
• His body was cremated and a thūpa was erected three leagues in height.¹

¹ Bu.xviii.1 ff; BuA.188 ff; J.i.40.