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Gautama Buddha
(redirected from Shakyamuni Buddha)

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Noun1.Gautama Buddha - founder of BuddhismGautama Buddha - founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)


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Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Supreme Compassion is He who holds the lotus or Padmapani (and alongside Vajrapani seated on either side of Shakyamuni Buddha constitutes the garbhadhatu; from which trinity emanate all forms of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas).
And then there's the art, including the magnificent Great Parinirvana Image, a 16-foot-long golden sculpture of a reclining Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, propped up on one elbow speaking to his followers just before he dies and enters nirvana.
The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin is based on the Lotus Sutra, the highest teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha, who lived and taught in India 3,000 years ago.
 
 
 
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