Śākyamuni (14900)

Śākyamuni
Entry 14900, Page 525, Col. 1

(SAkyamuni, SAkyamuni)
Śākyamuni¦ (= Pali Sak°; see also Śākyasiṃha), (1) ep. of the historic Buddha, passim; as 7th of the ‘seven Buddhas’, beginning with Vipaśyin, Dharmas 6; in SP 185.3 he is one of two Buddhas in the northeast, yet is located asyāṃ sahāyāṃ lokadhātau; Gv 419.20, see also Vairocana, who is identified with Ś. esp. in Gv; (2) n. of a former Buddha under whom ‘this’ (historic) Ś. made a praṇidhāna and received a prediction of Buddha- hood: Mv i.1.6; 47.13 ff.; in 57.8 thirty crores of Buddhas of this name were worshipped by, and predicted the Buddhahood of, (the historic) Ś. while he was cakravartin; in LV 172.5 also a former B. of this name, to whom the historic Ś. made a gift; (3) n. of (presumably) another past Buddha: Mv iii.238.10 ff.; (4) n. of still another past Buddha, in the same list as (3), next in line to a Buddha named Yaśottara: Mv iii.240.4; 243.9, 10; 245.11; 247.7; 248.14; (in the same list, 240.10, the historic Ś. also names himself;) (5) n. of a future Buddha, rebirth of a girl who made a praṇidhāna under the historic Ś. and for whom he predicted Buddhahood: Divy 90.5, 28; (6) n. of a future Buddha, rebirth of Vaḍika, similarly predicted by the historic Ś.: Av i.35.3.