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There are 17 total results for your buddha shakyamuni search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

釈迦

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 shaka
    しゃか

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Shakyamuni / The Buddha
Gautama Buddha (san: Śākya); Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha; (p,s,g) Shaka

釋迦牟尼


释迦牟尼

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shì jiā móu ní
    shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2
shih chia mou ni
 Shakamuni

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Shakyamuni / The Buddha
Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
釋迦文 (釋迦文尼); 釋伽文 Śākyamuni, the saint of the Śākya tribe. muni is saint, holy man, sage, ascetic monk; it is: intp. as 仁 benevolent, charitable, kind, also as 寂默 one who dwells in seclusion. After '500 or 550' previous incarnations, Śākyamuni finally attained to the state of Bodhisattva, was born in the Tuṣita heaven, and descended as a white elephant, through her right side, into the womb of the immaculate Māyā, the purest woman on earth; this was on the 8th day of the 4th month; next year on the 8th day of the 2nd month he was born from her right side painlessly as she stood under a tree in the Lumbinī garden. For the subsequent miraculous events v. Eitel. also the 神通遊戲經 (Lalitavistara), the 釋迦如來成道記, etc. Simpler statements say that he was born the son of Śuddhodana, of the kṣatriya caste, ruler of Kapilavastu, and Māyā his wife; that Māyā died seven days later, leaving him to be brought up by her sister Prājapati; that in due course he was married to Yaśodharā who bore him a son, Rāhula; that in search of truth he left home, became an ascetic, severely disciplined himself, and finally at 35 years of age, under a tree, realized that the way of release from the chain of rebirth and death lay not in asceticism but in moral purity; this he explained first in his four dogmas, v. 四諦 and eightfold noble way 八正道, later amplified and developed in many sermons. He founded his community on the basis of poverty, chastity, and insight or meditation, ad it became known as Buddhism, as he became known as Buddha, the enlightened. His death was probably in or near 487 B.C., a few years before that of Confucius in 479. The sacerdotal name of his family is Gautama, said to be the original name of the whole clan, Śākya being that of his branch, v. 瞿, 喬.; his personal name was Siddhārtha, or Sarvārthasiddha, v. 悉.

前仏

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 zenbutsu
    ぜんぶつ
(1) {Buddh} Buddha prior to Gautama; (2) {Buddh} (See 後仏) Gautama Buddha; Shakyamuni; (surname) Zenbutsu

彌勒


弥勒

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mí lè
    mi2 le4
mi le
 miroku
    みろく
Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan; Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
(surname) Miroku
Maitreya, friendly, benevolent. The Buddhist Messiah, or next Buddha, now in the Tuṣita heaven, who is to come 5,000 years after the nirvāṇa of Śākyamuni, or according to other reckoning after 4,000 heavenly years, i.e. 5,670,000,000 human years. According to tradition he was born in Southern India of a Brahman family. His two epithets are 慈氏 Benevolent, and Ajita 阿逸多 'Invincible'. He presides over the spread of the church, protects its members and will usher in ultimate victory for Buddhism. His image is usually in the hall of the four guardians facing outward, where he is represented as the fat laughing Buddha, but in some places his image is tall, e.g. in Peking in the Yung Ho Kung. Other forms are彌帝M075962; 迷諦隸; 梅低梨; 梅怛麗 (梅怛藥 or 梅怛邪); 每怛哩; 昧怛 M067070曳; 彌羅. There are numerous Maitreya sūtras.

仏涅槃

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 butsunehan
    ぶつねはん
(1) {Buddh} the death of Shakyamuni Buddha; (2) (abbreviation) {Buddh} (See 仏涅槃忌) Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month)

彌勒佛


弥勒佛

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mí lè fó
    mi2 le4 fo2
mi le fo
 Miroku butsu
Maitreya; the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
Maitreya Buddha

燃燈佛


燃灯佛

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rán dēng fó
    ran2 deng1 fo2
jan teng fo
 Nentō Butsu
Dipamkara Buddha, the former Buddha before Shakyamuni Buddha and the bringer of lights
Dīpaṃkara

お釈迦様

see styles
 oshakasan
    おしゃかさん
    oshakasama
    おしゃかさま
Buddha; Shakyamuni

御釈迦様

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 oshakasan
    おしゃかさん
    oshakasama
    おしゃかさま
Buddha; Shakyamuni

釈迦三尊

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 shakasanzon
    しゃかさんぞん
{Buddh} Shakyamuni triad; Gautama triad; image of Shakyamuni (Gautama) Buddha flanked by two attendants

釈迦如来

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 shakanyorai
    しゃかにょらい
Gautama Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha (5th c. BCE?); (surname) Nikurube

釈迦牟尼

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 shakamuni
    しゃかむに
Gautama Buddha (san: Śākyamuni); Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha (5th c. BCE?)

お釈迦さん

see styles
 oshakasan
    おしゃかさん
Buddha; Shakyamuni

Variations:
仏(P)
佛(oK)

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 hotoke
    ほとけ
(1) Buddha; Shakyamuni; (2) Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; (3) the dead; dead person; departed soul; (4) merciful person

Variations:
お釈迦さん
御釈迦さん

see styles
 oshakasan
    おしゃかさん
(See お釈迦様・おしゃかさま) Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha (5th c. BCE?)

Variations:
お釈迦様
お釈迦さま
御釈迦様

see styles
 oshakasama
    おしゃかさま
(See 釈迦・しゃか) Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha (5th c. BCE?)

Variations:
お釈迦様
お釈迦さま
御釈迦様(rK)
おしゃか様(sK)

see styles
 oshakasama
    おしゃかさま
(See 釈迦・しゃか) Buddha; Shakyamuni; the historical Buddha (5th c. BCE?)

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 17 results for "buddha shakyamuni" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



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A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

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