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
Sakyamuni, another name for Buddhism, means also illumination, or realization of the saving character of the light within.
From Cosmic Consciousness by McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
M. Thou art ahungered, worthy Sakyamuni, Ahungered art thou from continued fasts, And thou wilt starve unless thou take and eat.
From The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes by Carus, Paul
It was in this town, or in its neighbourhood, that Sakyamuni spent many years of his life after he became Buddha.
From A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline by Faxian, ca. 337-422
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