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Bookmark or Share- The Buddha Shakyamuni (article) | Khan AcademyShakyamuni Buddha is the founder of the Buddhist religion. He lived and taught in India in the sixth century B.C.E., a time of burgeoning religious and philosophical thought from Greece to China.
- The Buddha - WikipediaAccording to the Buddhist tradition, Shakyamuni Buddha was a Shakya, a sub-Himalayan ethnicity and clan of north-eastern region of the Indian subcontinent. The Shakya community was on the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the eastern Indian subcontinent in the 5th century BCE.
- The Shakya Clan in India: A Rediscovered HeritageThe son of King Prasenjit, Bidudabha, from Shravasti, attacked Kapilavastu and Devdah and killed many Shakyas and Koliyas, while others migrated to different parts of India. Today, the Shakya people live mainly in Nepal and around Sankisa, in different districts of Uttar Pradesh.
- Shakya - Encyclopedia of BuddhismThe Shakya (Skt. Śākya; P. Sākiya; T. shA kya ཤཱ་ཀྱ་; C. shijia) were an ancient India tribe that inhabited an area near the border of present-day Nepal and India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. According to tradition, the Siddhartha Gautama, the future Buddha, was born into the Shakya tribe.
- Gautama Buddha - Encyclopedia of BuddhismGautama Buddha, also known as Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, was an Indian sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught in northeastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE. [1]
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