Kassapa Buddha

Kassapa Buddha (Pali), is one of the ancient Buddhas that are chronicled in the Pali Canon's Buddhavamsa, Chapter 24. He was born in Deer Park at Sarnath, where he later delivered his first teaching. Kassapa Buddha was the previous Buddha of this kalpa before the present Gautama Buddha, though Kassapa lived long before him.

According to the Pali Canon's Theravāda Buddhist chronicle, Kassapa is the twenty-seventh of the twenty-nine named Buddhas, the sixth of the Seven Buddhas of Antiquity, and the third of the 1002 Buddhas of the present kalpa.

The present kalpa is called a mahabhadrakalpa, the "great auspicious aeon". The first five Buddhas of the present kalpa are:

1. Kakusandha Buddha, the first Buddha of the bhadrakalpa
2. Koṇāgamana Buddha, the second Buddha of the bhadrakalpa
3. Kassapa Buddha, the third Buddha of the bhadrakalpa
4. Gautama Buddha, the fourth and present Buddha of the bhadrakalpa
5. Maitreya, the fifth and future Buddha of the bhadrakalpa