Kasapa Buddha’s time

[Iwanttonibbana]

So when did Kasapa Buddha actually live? In this big bang and crunch cycle we are in now? How much earlier than Gotama Buddha? Was Kasapa Neanderthal or Stone Age?

[Quetzalcoatl]

Hi , how abt refers to :?

Cūḷamālukyasutta
MN 63

https://suttacentral.net/mn63/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin

Mettacittena
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[IndyJ]

Time gap between being disciple of Buddha Kassapa, life in Tusita Heaven, and birth of Gotama

In my studying of the suttas and the Abhidhammattha Sangaha I have noticed something that I haven’t heard discussed before in books, essays or in the many talks online. According to MN 81 the Ghaṭīkāra Sutta, Buddha Gotama recounts a past life during the Buddha Kassapa’s lifetime when he was a brahmin student named Jotipāla and his friend a potter named Ghaṭīkāra takes him to meet Buddha Kassapa. Interesting, Jotipāla has to basically be dragged to him. Jotipāla ends up becoming a disciple of B…

there’s no guarantee kassapa buddha arose in this solar system. the buddha noted that there are many such world systems each with their own continents such as ours and an equivalent india upon that world, each with it’s own brahma realm etc. it could easily have been such an alternative world system.

i believe the kalpa we all belong to only refers to the cycle of the unfolding of the universe - not necessarily referring to the same world (solar) system or even galaxy.