According to Theravada Buddhism's Pali canon's Buddhavamsa and its commentary, Anomadassi is the tenth of twenty-seven Buddhas who preceded the historical Gotama Buddha. He was also the first Buddha of the Vara kalpa. In the Buddhavamsa, he is described as: Anomadassi Buddha is like a large ocean, a mountain that one hardly approaches, the infinite sky, or a Sal tree that can bloom well. Anomadassi was 58 cubits, or 87 feet tall and his stupa was 25 yojana, or about 191 miles high.