Buddhism: Buddha Shakyamuni

| frame | Buddha Shakyamuni 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 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

• Buddha Shakyamuni's Disciples | Buddha Shakyamuni's Disciples

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.<ref>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།</ref>

• Buddhacharita by Ashvaghosha
• Lalitavistara Sutra
• White Lotus of Compassion Sutra

• 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'.

• 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 here

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• Mantra of Buddha Shakyamuni
• Twelve deeds
• Two images of Buddha Shakyamuni
• Sutras, a collection of quotations from different sutras.

• Shakyamuni Buddha Outline page at Himalayan Art
• 'Who Was Shakyamuni Buddha?' by Alexander Berzin
• 'The Life of the Buddha As Pieced Together from the Pali Canon' by Alexander Berzin

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