Reply To: Rarity of Buddha Ministry?

#44748
Tobias G
Participant

Lal, there is a contradiction between those two posts:

  #44675

 …As I remember, our solar system (cakkavāla) is one of a 10,000 cakkavāla in a cūḷanikā lokadhātu. …

A Buddha can arise in only one cakkavāla in a cūḷanikā lokadhātu.

#44711

…. At marker 4.3: “cūḷanikā lokadhātu” is a SMALL cluster of a thousand such cakkavāla ….

…Each “mahāsahassī lokadhātu” can have only one Buddha at a time. But there can be Buddhas in other “mahāsahassī lokadhātu” even at this time. 


As per the sutta AN 3.80 a mahāsahassī lokadhātu contains 1000 x 1000 x 1000 = 1 billion cakkavala.