Sakyamuni
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Sakyamuni
From the Sanskrit word Śākyamuni
Example Sentences
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As Sakyamuni, the Buddha of our cosmos, teaches, if the denizens of Sukhavati "desire cloaks of different colors and many hundred thousand colors, then with these very best cloaks the whole Buddha country shines."
From Time Magazine Archive
And among the Brahmins’ sons in the towns and villages, every pilgrim and stranger was welcome if he brought news of him, the Illustrious, the Sakyamuni.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Buddha, bōōd′da, n. an epithet applied to Sakyamuni or Gautama, the founder of the Buddhist religion.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The exceptions which may be taken to this in religious systems are chiefly two, those supposed to have been founded by Buddha Sakyamuni and Confucius.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
And Kassapa went to the Buddha on the next morning and said: "Why did the great Sakyamuni not come?"
From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Paul Carus
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