Maha Buddhavamsa - Sermon On Acts of Bodhisatta Brahmana Sankha

Maha Buddhavamsa
The Great Chronicle of The Buddhas
by Tipitakadhara Mingun Sayadaw

Sermon On Acts of Bodhisatta Brahmana Sankha

After a two weeks stay in the city of Vesali, Tathagata told
Licchavi princes, 'We will soon go' and say
goodbye. The Licchavi saluted with two times more
than of which are given by King Bimbisara and in three days
 they deliver Tathagata to the banks of the Ganga River.

Maha Buddhavamsa - Giving Instructions To the Venerable Ananda

Maha Buddhavamsa
The Great Chronicle of The Buddhas
by Tipitakadhara Mingun Sayadaw

Tathagata Standing at the City Gate and Giving
Instructions To the Venerable Ananda


"My son Ananda, after studying this Ratana Sutta from me;
you should read it in the area bounded by
three walls of the city as a means of prevention (Paritta), then go
around the city accompanied by Licchavi Princes whom
have been instructed to carry objects offering
to the gods. "

Maha Buddhavamsa - Establishment of Vesali

Maha Buddhavamsa
The Great Chronicle of The Buddhas
by Tipitakadhara Mingun Sayadaw

Establishment of Vesali

At one point, King's Consort of King Bàrànasi pregnant.
The queen told this to the king. And the king
pointed to a number of waiters to serve the queen during the
pregnancy. The queen lives in comfort, with carefully
maintain the fetus in her womb, and as time goes by,
 her pregnancy entering the birth period.
According to custom, high-status women who enjoy
good fruit of the past usually give birth to her son on
early days.
The queen, as a woman who comes from that group
of elite, gave birth early in the morning, gave birth to a piece of
red flesh like a rose. Queen thinks, "The king must
surprised, 'Other Queens gave birth to children like a golden statue;
but my consort bear a piece of meat 'I take
disgrace to the king. "Intends to avoid the disgrace and fall
dignity, he put a lump of meat into a cup
covered the other cup and throw it into the Ganga river.

Magic happens, when the cup containing the lump of meat
separated from the human hand; he was taken by the god with carefully
 lay a gold plate bearing the red words:
'This is the son of the king's consort Bàrànasi.'

Maha Buddhavamsa - Liberation of Naked Ascetic Jambuka

Maha Buddhavamsa
The Great Chronicle of The Buddhas
by Tipitakadhara Mingun Sayadaw

Liberation of Naked Ascetic Jambuka

It is the practice of the Buddha who has attained Perfect
Enlightenment, watched the whole world at early morning to
check out who is ready to be free from the cycle of
suffering. Thus, in an early day, when the Buddha
is watching this world see Jambuka through His inner eyes;
after investigating further, he learned that
Jambuka has accumulated merit that enable him
to achieve Arahatta-Phala complete with four
Analytical Sciences (Patisambhida Nana); he also knew
that he must expound the couplet poem to the Naked Ascetic
Jambuka, and that teaching will also help to eighty
four thousand beings to penetrate the Four Noble Truths
and achieve liberation. "Because of this Jambuka, thousands of people
will obtain happiness. "Thus, after round
Rajagaha to collect alms, he tells
Venerable Ananda, "Ananda my son, I would go see
Jambuka. "

Maha Buddhavamsa - Story of Naked Ascetic Jambuka

Maha Buddhavamsa
The Great Chronicle of The Buddhas
by Tipitakadhara Mingun Sayadaw

Story of Naked Ascetic Jambuka

This sermon that begins with the words "Mase Mase kusaggena"
expounded by the Tathagata as dwelling at the Vihara Veluvana in
Rajagaha in connection with the naked hermit Jambuka.

Scheming of Jambuka In the Past

In the Buddha Kassapa time, a rich man from a village
in the border area build a monastery for a
monks. He regularly gave alms, robes, where
residence, and medicine-four monks requisites to
monks who settled there. The monk was also routinely
visit the homes of the rich to eat every day.
One day, a senior monk who is a Arahanta,
were collecting alms, and arrived at the gate
the rich man's house. The rich man was very impressed with the
attitude of the monk, so he invited him to enter
to his house and offered food to the full
respectfully and said, "Your Majesty, please accept this piece of cloth to
used as a cloak after dyed and sewn; your hair too
long enough and I will bring a barber
and a bed for you to the monastery. "