Kashyapa (Skt)
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Kashyapa; (Skt); 迦葉菩薩 ( Jpn Kasho-bosatsu);
(1) A bodhisattva who appears in the Mahaparinirvana Sutra to whom Shakyamuni Buddha addresses the "Bodhisattva Kashyapa" chapter of that sutra and who, in the sutra, asks Shakyamuni thirty-six questions.
(2)迦葉仏( Jpn Kasho-butsu): According to the Long Agama Sutra and others, the sixth of the seven Buddhas of the past, the seventh and last of whom is Shakyamuni. The Wise Kalpa Sutra lists the names of a thousand Buddhas appearing in the present Wise Kalpa and describes Kashyapa Buddha as the third of them. According to the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the monk Realization of Virtue, who upheld the correct teaching, was reborn as Kashyapa Buddha, and the king Possessor of Virtue, who was killed defending him, was reborn as Shakyamuni.