Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta revisited
Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta prophecy about Mettaya Buddha
Many missionaries are claiming their religious founder as the Mettaya Buddha that was prophesized by our Lord Buddha. If their claims are true, it should fulfill all the conditions mentioned in the sutta. The conditions are summarized in the notes column.
Sutta
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Notes
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24. 'And in the time of the
people with an eighty thousand-year life-span there will arise in the capital
city Ketumati a King called Sankha, a wheel-turning monarch, a righteous
monarch of the law, conqueror of the four quarters, who had established the
security of his realm and was possessed of the seven treasures.
These are : the Wheel Treasure, the Elephant Treasure, the Horse Treasure, the Jewel Treasure, the Woman Treasure, the Householder Treasure, and seventh, the Counsellor Treasure. He has more than a thousand sons who are heroes, of heroic stature, conquerors of the hostile army. He dwells having conquered this sea-girt land without stick or sword, by the law. |
*1. King Sankha
*2. Human life-span is 80,000
years old.
*3. King Sankha posseses 7
treasures
*4. King Sankha has more than a
thousand sons
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25. 'And in the time of the
people with eighty thousand-year life-span, there will arise in the world a
Blessed Lord, an Arahant fully-enlightened Buddha named Metteyya, endowed
with wisdom and conduct, a Well-Farer, Knower of the worlds, an incomparable
Trainer of men to be tamed, Teacher of gods and humans, enlightened and
blessed, just as I am now.
He will thoroughly know by his own super-knowledge, and proclaim, this universe with its devas and maras and Brahmas, its ascetics and Brahmins, and this generation with its princes and people, just as I do now. He will teach the Dhamma, lovely in the beginning, lovely in its middle, in the spirit and in the letter, and proclaim, just as I do now, the holy life in its fullness and purity. He will be attended by a company of thousands of monks, just as I am attended by a company of hundreds. |
*1. When human life-span is
80,000 years old, a Buddha will appear in the world.
*2. His name is METTAYYA.
*3. Mettayya Buddha will be
attended by thousands of MONKS.
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26. 'Then King Sankha will
re-erect the palace once built by King Maha-Panada and having, lived in it,
will give it up and present it to the ascetics and Brahmins, the beggars, the
wayfarers, the destitute. Then, shaving off hair and beard, he will don
yellow robes and go forth from the household life into the homelessness under
the supreme Buddha Metteyya.
Having gone forth, he will remain alone, in seclusion, ardent, eager and resolute, and before long he will have attained in this very life, by his own super-knowledge and resolution, that unequalled goal of the holy life, for the sake of which young men of good equal family go forth from the household life into homelessness, and will abide therein. |
*1. King Sankha will re-erect
King Panada’s palace.
*2. King Sankha will give it up
after living in it.
*3. King Sankha will enter the
monastic order under Mettayya Buddha.
*4. King Sankha will attain
Nibbana.
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