《长部》第十四经，透过七佛生平阐述诸佛出世的共通轨则，其中于毗婆尸佛——乔达摩佛之前六佛中最早者——生平着墨最详。

The fourteenth discourse of the Dīghanikāya, describing the general pattern of a Buddha’s advent through the lives of seven Buddhas, with the life of Vipassī, the first of the six preceding Gotama, treated in the greatest detail.