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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.

釋迦牟尼佛


释迦牟尼佛

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shì jiā móu ní fó
    shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2 fo2
shih chia mou ni fo
 Shakamuni butsu
Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya); Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism
Śākyamuni Buddha

千百億化身釋迦牟尼佛


千百亿化身释迦牟尼佛

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qiān bǎi yì huà shēn shì jiā móu ní fó
    qian1 bai3 yi4 hua4 shen1 shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2 fo2
ch`ien pai i hua shen shih chia mou ni fo
    chien pai i hua shen shih chia mou ni fo
 senhyakuoku keshin Shakamuni butsu
Śākyamuni Buddha, of trillions of transformation bodies

大恩教主本師釋迦牟尼佛


大恩教主本师释迦牟尼佛

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dà ēn jiào zhǔ běn shī shì jiā móu ní fó
    da4 en1 jiao4 zhu3 ben3 shi1 shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2 fo2
ta en chiao chu pen shih shih chia mou ni fo
 Daion Kyōshu Honshi Śākyamuni Butsu
Our Great Benefactor and Founder of the Teachings, the Original Master Śākyamuni Buddha

釋迦牟尼佛成道在菩提樹降魔讚


释迦牟尼佛成道在菩提树降魔讚

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shì jiā mù ní fó chéng dào zài pú tí shù jiàng mó zàn
    shi4 jia1 mu4 ni2 fo2 cheng2 dao4 zai4 pu2 ti2 shu4 jiang4 mo2 zan4
shih chia mu ni fo ch`eng tao tsai p`u t`i shu chiang mo tsan
    shih chia mu ni fo cheng tao tsai pu ti shu chiang mo tsan
 Shakamuni butsujōdō zai bodaiju gōma san
Hymn to Śakyamūṇi's Path to Buddhahood Under the Bodhi Tree, and His Triumph over Māra

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

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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.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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