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ཤཱཀྱ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཤཱཀྱ།

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Publications: 22

Name of the ancient tribe in which the Buddha was born as a prince; their kingdom was based to the east of Kośala, in the foothills near the present-day border of India and Nepal, with Kapilavastu as its capital.

Translation by Fumi Yao
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The clan in which the Buddha Śākyamuni was born.

Translation by Gyurme Dorje
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Translation by Gareth Sparham
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

Name of the clan in Northern India in which the Buddha Śākyamuni was born as prince Siddhārtha.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The clan into which the Buddha was born.

Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

Name of the ancient tribe in which the Buddha was born as a prince; their kingdom was based to the east of Kośala, in the foothills near the present-day border of India and Nepal, with Kapilavastu as its capital.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The clan into which the Buddha was born.

Translation by Wiesiek Mical · Timothy Hinkle
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The name of the clan into which the Buddha was born.

Translation by Ani Jinpa Palmo
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The name of the family clan into which Buddha Śākyamuni was born.

Translation by Robert A. F. Thurman
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

Name of the tribe dwelling in Northern India in which Gautama, or Śākyamuni, Buddha was born as prince Siddhārtha.

Translation by Dr. Shenghai Li · Zhuo Siyu
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

Name of the clan into which the Buddha was born.

Translation by Timothy Hinkle
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The name of the family clan into which the Buddha Śākyamuni was born.

Translation by Karen Liljenberg · Ulrich Pagel
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

Clan to which the Buddha Śākyamuni belonged.

Translation by Benjamin Ewing
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The name of the clan into which the Buddha Śākyamuni was born.

Translation by Joshua Capitanio
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

Name of the clan into which the Buddha Śākyamuni was born.

Translation by Jed Forman · ErdeneBaatar Erdene-Ochir · Michael Ium
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The family name of the Buddha Śākyamuni.

Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

Name of the clan into which the Buddha Śākyamuni was born.

Translation by Dr. Thomas Doctor · Timothy Hinkle · Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The family into which the Buddha Śākyamuni was born.

Translation by Tom Tillemans
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The clan from which the Buddha was descended.

Translation by Dr. Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

Name of the clan into which Buddha Śākyamuni was born.

Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya AS
  • 釋迦
Translation by James Gentry
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Translation by Wiesiek Mical · Anna Zilman · Andreas Doctor · Adam Krug
  • Śākya
  • ཤཱཀྱ།
  • shAkya
  • śākya
Definition in this text:

The clan in which the Buddha Śākyamuni was born.