Śākyamuni

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNameTib	ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་
MainNameWylie	shAkya thub pa
AltNamesOther	Siddhārtha Gautama
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	In Sanskrit, “Sage of the Śākya Clan,” one of the most common epithets of Gautama Buddha, especially in the Mahāyāna traditions, where the name Śākyamuni is used to distinguish the historical buddha from the myriad other buddhas who appear in the sūtras. The Śākyas were a tribe in northern India into which was born Siddhārtha Gautama, the man who would become the historical buddha. According to the texts, the Śākya clan was made up of kṣatriyas, warriors or political administrators in the Indian caste system. The Śākya clan flourished in the foothills of the Himālayas, near the border between present-day Nepal and India. (Source: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, p. 741.)
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Names

• shakya thub pa
• Buddha Shakyamuni

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.