Kondanna
Kondanna may refer to * Kondanna Buddha, one of the 29 Buddhas of Theravāda Buddhism. * Kaundinya Kaundinya (Sanskrit कौण्डिन्य), also known as ''Ājñātakauṇḍinya'', Pali: ''Añña Koṇḍañña''),who was one of the first five Buddhist monks ( Pancavaggiya), follower of Gautama Buddha and the first to become an arha ...

Kondanna Buddha
Koṇḍañña is one of the 29 Buddhas of Theravāda Buddhism. He was born in Rammavati. His father was King Sunanda and his mother Sujata. He belonged to the Kondannagotta, and was twenty eight cubits tall. For ten thousand years he lived as a layman in Ruci, Suruci and Subha. His wife was Rudidevi and his son Vijitasena. He left home and performed austerities for ten months until he was given milk rice by Yasodhara, daughter of the merchant Saundana. He was given grass for his seat by Ajivaka Sundana. His Tree of Enlightenment was a Salakalyani tree, and his first sermon was to ten choirs of monks in the Devavana near Amaravati. He had three assemblies of his disciples, the first led by Subhadda, then by Vijitasena, and finally Udena. He died aged one hundred thousand years at Canarama, where a Stupa seven leagues tall was constructed over his relics. In the Buddhavamsa commentary it is said that Koṇḍañña's relics were not dispersed but kept in a single mass. His chie ...
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