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Tushita is the fourth Devaloka, where all Bodhisattvas are reborn before finally appearing on earth as Buddha. Life lasts in Tushita 4000 years, but twenty-four hours there are equal to 400 years on earth. E. H., p. 152. It was in the Tushita heaven that Sakyamuni met him and appointed him as his successor, to appear as Buddha after the lapse of 5000 years.
It took place when Buddha had been born as a Brahman in the village of Daliddi; and from the merit of the act, he was next born in a devaloka. Formerly, when Buddha was travelling in this country with his disciples, he said to Ananda, "After my pari-nirvana, there will be a king named Kanishka, who shall on this spot build a tope." The boy said, "I am making a tope for Buddha."
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