One of the Five Excellent Companions, with whom Siddhārtha Gautama practiced asceticism near the Nairañjanā River and who later heard the Buddha first teach the Four Noble Truths at the Deer Park in Sarnath.

One of the first five disciples of the Buddha.

One of the Buddha’s foremost hearer disciples.

One of the five companions of Śākyamuni in asceticism and later one of his first five pupils, attaining the state of a stream entrant. After the Buddha’s death he is said to have headed the great council of ten thousand that established a canon of the Buddha’s teachings (while Kāśyapa was the head of a smaller council elsewhere who did the same).

One of Siddhārtha's five ascetic companions, who abandoned him when he renounced asceticism. When those five later became the Buddha’s first disciples, Vāṣpa attained the state of a stream entrant.

He was one of the five companions of Śākyamuni in asceticism and later one of his first five pupils, attaining the state of a stream entrant.

One of the monks attending this teaching in Śrāvastī, at Jeta’s Grove. He was one of the five companions who joined Prince Siddhārtha while practicing austerities and attended his first turning of the wheel of Dharma at the Deer Park, after the Buddha’s awakening.