- name is of Austro-Asiatic
Munda origin (see above, page 148).
While the
Sakyans'
rough speech and
Munda ancestors do not
prove that they
spoke a non-IA...
-
Followers of Buddhism,
called Buddhists in English,
referred to
themselves as
Sakyan-s or
Sakyabhiksu in
ancient India.
Buddhist scholar Donald S.
Lopez ****erts...
- of
North India at that time were
kingdoms and
others republics, and the
Sakyan republic was
subject to the
powerful king of
neighbouring Kosala, which...
-
several Vinaya rules are
mentioned as
being first promulgated there.
Various Sākyans came to see the
Buddha at the Nigrodhārāma,
among them, Mahānāma, Godha...
-
extremely well-bred,
graceful and beautiful. To
disambiguate her from
Sakyans by the same name, she was also
known as "Rupa-Nanda," "one of delightful...
- discourses,
Suddhodana is
represented simply as the Buddha's
father and as a
Sakyan ruler. For a
translation of the
latter discourse, see Thanissaro, 1998....
- to an
account in
several Buddhist texts,
Kapilavatthu (the town of the
Sakyans) and Koli (the town of the Koliyans) were
situated on
either side of the...
-
Sutta Nipáta (vs. 683)
states that the
Buddha was born in a
village of the
Sákyans in the
Lumbineyya Janapada. The
Buddha sta**** in Lumbinívana
during his...
- this term can be
found in the
Sakya Sutta (AN 10.46): "What do you think,
Sakyans.
Suppose a man, by some
profession or
other [Pali: yena
kenaci kammaṭṭhānena]...
-
magnificent sight. Ajita, the
Licchavi army general, was
reborn here. Gopika, the
Sākyan girl, was
reborn as a male god in this realm. Any
Buddhist reborn in this...
