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=Buddhism: Buddha Shakyamuni==
#redirect Buddha Shakyamuni
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Buddha Shakyamuni (Skt. Śākyamuni; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་, Wyl. sangs rgyas shAkya thub pa) — the Indian prince Gautama Siddhartha, who reached enlightenment (and thus became a buddha) in the sixth century B.C., and who taught the spiritual path followed by millions all over the world, known today as Buddhism.
Dates
Dates for the parinirvana according to:
*2420 B.C.E. the Pandita Sureshamati
*2150 B.C.E. the rGya-bod-yig-tshang
*2146 B.C.E. Üpa Losal
*2136 B.C.E. Atisha
*2133 B.C.E. Sakya Pandita
*949 B.C.E. The Blue Annals refering to a Chinese tradition from Fo-lin and accepted by the Japanese schools: Jodo, Jodo-Shinshu and Nichirenshu
*881 B.C.E. Pakpa Lhundrup (followed by Butön and Dudjom Rinpoche)
*876 B.C.E. Butön based on the Kalachakra tantra
*835 B.C.E. Jonangpa school scholars
*750 B.C.E. Tshalpa Kunga Dorje, based on the history of the Sandalwood Buddha
*718 B.C.E. Kamalashila
*651 B.C.E. Orgyenpa
*544/543 B.C.E. Shakyashri, last abbot of Vikramashila
*544 B.C.E. Theravadin tradition
*489 B.C.E. based on the reign of Ashoka being 218 years after the parinirvana
*486 B.C.E. "dotted record" which came to China through Samghabhadra
*483 B.C.E. some modern scholars (an adjustment to the "dotted record")
*386/383 B.C.E. modern Japanese scholars
*371 B.C.E. based on the reign of Ashoka being 100 years after the parinirvana
Disciples
*:Category:Buddha Shakyamuni's Disciples|Buddha Shakyamuni's Disciples
Epithets
There are many epithets for the Buddha. The Amarakosha lists them as follows:
:Omniscient One, Gone to Bliss (Skt. Sugata), Awakened One, King of Dharma, Thus Gone One (Skt. Tathāgata),
:Always Good, Blessed Lord (Skt. Bhagavan), Victor over Māra, Victor of the World, Victorious One,
:Possessor of Six Super-Knowledges, Possessor of ten strengths|Ten Strengths, Speaker of Non-Duality, Remover of Obstacles,
:King of Sages, Full of Glory, Teacher, The Sage, Sage of the Śākyas,
:Lion of the Śākyas, Accomplisher of All Aims, Son of Śuddhodana,
:Gautama, Kinsman of the Sun, Son of Māyādevī.[The Sanskrit is as follows: ]
:sarvajñaḥ sugato buddho dharmarājastathāgataḥ
:samantabhadro bhagavān mārajillokajijjinaḥ
:ṣaḍabhijño daśabalo 'dvayavādī vināyakaḥ
:munīndraḥ shrīghanaḥ shāstā muniḥ śākyamunistu yaḥ
:saḥ śākyasiṃhaḥ sarvārthasiddhaḥ śauddhodaniśca saḥ
:gautamaścārkabandhuśca māyādevīsutaśca saḥ
And the Tibetan translation:
:བདེ་གཤེགས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན། ། ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས ། །
:ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས། །བདུད་འདུལ་འཇིག་རྟེན་རྒྱལ་བ་པོ། །
:མངོན་ཤེས་དྲུག་ལྡན་སྟོབས་བཅུ་པ། །གཉིས་མེད་གསུངས་རྔུ་དང་རྣམ་པར་འདྲེན། །
:ཐུབ་པའི་དབང་པོ་དཔལ་སྟུག་དང་། །སྟོན་པ་ཐུབ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམས་སོ། །
:ཤཱཀ་ཐུབ་ཤཱཀྱའི་སེང་གེ་དང་། །དོན་རྣམས་གྲུབ་པ་ཟས་གཙང་སྲས། །
:གོ་ཏ་མ་དང་ཉི་མའི་གཉེན། །ལྷ་མོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་སྲས་རྣམས་སོ།
Traditional Biographical Sources
*Buddhacharita by Ashvaghosha
*Lalitavistara Sutra
*White Lotus of Compassion Sutra
Further Reading
*Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, What Makes You Not a Buddhist (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2007)
*Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia
*Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path White Clouds (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1991)
*Tulku Thondup, Masters of Meditation and Miracles, edited by Harold Talbott (Boston: Shambhala, 1999), 'Shākyamuni Buddha'.
Oral Teachings Given to the About Rigpa|Rigpa Sangha
*Dzogchen Rinpoche, Buddha’s Life and Path of Liberation, Lerab Ling, 6-7 June 1998
*Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 9 September 2011
*Dominique Side, Melbourne, Australia, 21-22 October 2017
*Philippe Cornu, Rigpa centre, Levallois, 4 November 2019
*Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Sikkim, India, June/July 2020: The Life of the Buddha: Heart Lessons, available as video on demand [https://billetweb.fr/the-life-of-the-buddha here]
Notes
Internal Links
*Mantra of Buddha Shakyamuni
*Twelve deeds
*Two images of Buddha Shakyamuni
*Quotations: Sutras, a collection of quotations from different sutras.
External Links
*{{LH|topics/buddha-prayers/|Buddha Śākyamuni Prayers & Practices on Lotsawa House}}
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/shakyamuni/index.html Shakyamuni Buddha Outline page at Himalayan Art]
*[http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/approaching_buddhism/teachers/lineage_masters/who_was_shakyamuni_buddha/transcript.html 'Who Was Shakyamuni Buddha?' by Alexander Berzin]
*[http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/approaching_buddhism/teachers/lineage_masters/life_buddha_pali_canon.html 'The Life of the Buddha As Pieced Together from the Pali Canon' by Alexander Berzin]
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