[Continued from the previous part ...] The king named the baby Kassapa. When Kassapa was seven years old, he was ordained in the Buddha’s house as a novice. And when Kassapa was twenty years old, he was ordained as a monk. He was expert on telling Dharma beautifully and finally was enlighten. One day, the [...]
[Continued from the previous part ...] At last, she was ordained in the house of female monks under Devadatta’s control. Months passed, other female monks noticed that her belly was bigger and bigger. Other female monks asked her “How did you get pregnant ?”. The pregnant monk answered “I don’t know but I never break [...]
Devadatta once asked the Buddha for something and was rejected. He revenged by persuading five hundreds monks to stay with him at another country. When the Buddha knew that all five hundreds monks had succeeded high level of meditation, the Buddha called Saribudra and Mokkallana, two Buddhist saints, to preach them and call them back. [...]
While some monks was talking about the Buddha’s priesthood, the Buddha said “I’ve not only become a priest in this life.” The monks asked the Buddha to reveal this story, so the Buddha told his story as follows: In those days, there was a king named Makadeva, who ruled the throne morally. One day, he [...]
In the age of the Gautama Buddha, there was a middle-class man whose wife had just passed away. He decided to be ordained. After became a monk, he called his followers to cook foods for him. He also had a lot of yellow robes and clothes. Other monks had passed the new monk’s place and [...]