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- proper noun an older name for the
Gautama Buddha
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A relic of Sakyamuni is contained inside, along with some of his cremated remains.
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He would often be known as Sakyamuni, the Silent One from the republic of Sakka, because the knowledge he had acquired was ineffable and could not be described in words.
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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Concerning the virtue of the representation of the footprints of the Buddha, there is sometimes quoted a text from the Kwan-butsu - sanmai-kyo [ "Buddha-dhyana-samadhi-sagara-sutra"], thus translated for me: -- "In that time Shaka [" Sakyamuni "] lifted up his foot ....
In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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The clergy will ring giant bells, then line up to ladle flower-perfumed water on statues of Sakyamuni standing as a newborn, therefore symbolically "bathing the baby Buddha."
Buddha's Birthday 2008
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“Sakya Buddha,” = “The Buddha of the Sakya tribe,” and “Sakyamuni,” = “The Sakya sage.”
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When was this first assembly in the time of Sakyamuni held?
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Thou didst return, I saw even now, a follower of Sakyamuni, the
Kim 2003
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Sakyamuni, and who, so long before, gave him the assurance that he would by-and-by be Buddha.
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Tushita heaven that Sakyamuni met him and appointed him as his successor, to appear as Buddha after the lapse of 5000 years.
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A prince of Magadha and a maternal uncle of Sakyamuni, who gave him the name of Ajnata, meaning automat; and hence he often appears as Ajnata Kaundinya.
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