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Mahākāśyapa

Disciple of Gautama Buddha

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Mahākāśyapa was one of the principal disciples of Gautama Buddha. He is regarded in Buddhism as an enlightened disciple, being foremost in ascetic practice. Mahākāśyapa assumed leadership of the monastic community following the parinirvāṇa (death) of the Buddha, presiding over the First Buddhist Council.

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Pippala Cave in Rajgir, where Mahākāśyapa is recorded to have stayed[10]Pippala Cave in Rajgir, where Mahākāśyapa is recorded to have stayed[10]A young Mahākāśyapa, wood, eighteenth century, KoreaA young Mahākāśyapa, wood, eighteenth century, KoreaMahakasyapa in the Kizil Caves, carbon dated to 422-529 CEMahakasyapa in the Kizil Caves, carbon dated to 422-529 CEMahākāśyapa. Seventh-eighth century, Mogao Caves, China.Mahākāśyapa. Seventh-eighth century, Mogao Caves, China.Burma, mid 19th century. Mahākassapa meeting the ājīvika ascetic (above) and paying homage to the Buddha's feet before the funeral pyre is lit (below).Burma, mid 19th century. Mahākassapa meeting the ājīvika ascetic (above) and paying homage to the Buddha's feet before the funeral pyre is lit (below).

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Mahākāśyapa was one of the principal disciples of Gautama Buddha. He is regarded in Buddhism as an enlightened disciple, being foremost in ascetic practice. Mahākāśyapa assumed leadership of the monastic community following the parinirvāṇa (death) of the Buddha, presiding over the First Buddhist Council. He was considered to be the first patriarch in a number of Early Buddhist schools and continued to have an important role as patriarch in the Chan/Zen tradition. In Buddhist texts, he assumed many identities, that of a renunciant saint, a lawgiver, an anti-establishment figure, but also a "guarantor of future justice" in the time of Maitreya, the future Buddha - he has been described as "both the anchorite and the friend of mankind, even of the outcast".

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