What was the time gap between the previous Buddha and Gautama Buddha?
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It is difficult to give the exact time gap between the previous Buddha and Gautama Buddha. Both Buddhas came to pass in this great aeon. This is a Special Kalpa – a Maha-Bhadra-Kalpa - largest time unit in Buddhism - unlike the previous ones, where five Buddhas in all will come to pass. Buddha says it's not suitable to count the exact length of the maha-kalpa in number of years. In the Anamatagga-samyutta — The unimaginable beginnings of samsara. In Samyutta ii, Chapter XV, the Buddha used the parables of the hill and mustard-seed for comparison:
Suppose there was a solid mass, of rock or hill, one yojana (eight miles) wide, one yojana across and one yojana high and every hundred years, a man was to stroke it once with a piece of silk. That mass of rock would be worn away and ended sooner than would an aeon.
Suppose there was a city of iron walls, one yojana in length, one yojana (eight miles) in width, one yojana high and filled with mustard-seeds to the brim. There-from a man was to take out every hundred years a mustard-seed. That great pile of mustard-seed would be emptied and ended sooner than would an aeon.
In the Digha Nikaya in Mahāpadāna sutta, the Discourse of the biography of the Buddha it is said that:
"In the time of the Lord Buddha Vipassi the life-span was eighty-thousand years; in the time of the Lord Buddha Sikhi seventy thousand; in the time of the Lord Buddha Vessabhu sixty thousand; in the time of the Lord Buddha Kakusandha forty thousand; in the time of the Lord Buddha Konagamana thirty thousand; in the time of the Lord Buddha Kassapa it was twenty thousand. In my time the lifespan is short, limited, and quick to pass: it is seldom that anybody lives to be one hundred.” At the time of the next Buddha, the average lifespan of a human is going to be eighty thousand years. (In the present day it is around 60 -80 years).
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According to the Buddhism, Our universe begun by cosmic explosion. After,
3kalpa (3x 420,000,000 years) - Birth of Kakusanda buddha 5kalpa (5x 420,000,000 years) - Birth of konagamana budhdha 2kalpa (2x 420,000,000 years) - Birth of Kassapa buddha 2kalpa (2x 420,000,000 years) - Birth of Gauthama buddha 4kalpa (4x 420,000,000 years) - Birth of Maithree buddha 2kalpa (2x 420,000,000 years) - End of our universe due to effect of 7sun Zone
Total life of our universe - 7560 Million years
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