how many buddhas were there before shakyamuni and how many after?

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how many buddhas were there before shakyamuni and how many after?

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how many buddhas were there before shakyamuni and how many after?
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Re: how many buddhas were there before shakyamuni and how many after?

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Incalculable Buddhas in the past. So too, incalculable Buddhas will appear in future. Samsara has no beginning or end per se, but it depends on ourselves to work out the escape from Samsara.
TuduBrahma:“The insulter of noble ones, having done evil with speech and mind goes to hell. There he has to suffer for a hundred thousand Nirabbudas and thirty-six more and five Abbudās.”
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Re: how many buddhas were there before shakyamuni and how many after?

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List of known Buddhas in the link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhahood
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Vipassī … lived ninety-one kalpas ago

Sikhī … lived thirty-one kalpas ago
Vessabhū … lived thirty-one kalpas ago in the same kalpa as Sikhī

Kakusandha … the first Buddha of the current bhadrakalpa
Koṇāgamana … the second Buddha of the current bhadrakalpa
Kassapa … the third Buddha of the current bhadrakalpa
Gautama … the fourth and present Buddha of the current bhadrakalpa

From Wikipedia
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