An epithet used for the Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, who lived sometime between the fourth to sixth century BCE. From the Sanskrit word shakyamuni, meaning “Sage of the Shakyas”; the epithet refers to the aristocratic birth clan of the Buddha, the Shakyas, who inhabited the area comprising present-day southern Nepal and northern India.
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