{"id":1494,"date":"2018-10-12T01:31:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hp-design.at\/palpung\/buddha-shakyamuni\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:26:36","slug":"buddha","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/buddhism-in-austria\/buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddha Shakyamuni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-loh3klr1-87e885ff6a6a79f20c36318ef5a0e6a5\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-loh3klr1-87e885ff6a6a79f20c36318ef5a0e6a5{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-loh3klr1-87e885ff6a6a79f20c36318ef5a0e6a5 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-loh3klr1-87e885ff6a6a79f20c36318ef5a0e6a5 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-loh3klr1-87e885ff6a6a79f20c36318ef5a0e6a5 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_image  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Lord Buddha Shakyamuni<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-jqfir1vx-560109e3785ebaaffdac84dad8ab2214\">\n.avia-image-container.av-jqfir1vx-560109e3785ebaaffdac84dad8ab2214 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-jqfir1vx-560109e3785ebaaffdac84dad8ab2214 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-jqfir1vx-560109e3785ebaaffdac84dad8ab2214 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_textblock '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-34252 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-34252 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1.jpg\" alt='' title='buddha paleu1'  height=\"1600\" width=\"2500\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1-600x384.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1-735x470.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1-1536x983.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1-2048x1311.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1-1500x960.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1-705x451.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/buddha-paleu1-1320x845.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jnyh8cai-f072849292ef9c8fcf5f2d000db7c8a2 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"bodytext\">What we nowadays call Buddhism which Buddhist call the <strong>Buddhadharma<\/strong>, can be traced back 2600 years to <strong>Prince Siddharta<\/strong> in India, although we need to know that he was not the first historical Buddha, nor will he be the last. For the benefit of all sentient beings, he renounced princehood and began to search for the truth of all being, the end of all suffering for the sake of all living creatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">On his search he met many\u00a0 people involved in spiritual practice. He recognized that the path they followed could not lead to the ultimate goal. So he entered a solitary retreat and <a href=\"\/en\/practising-buddhism\/\"><b>practiced <\/b><\/a>until his mind had fully overcome all extremes. Finally he attained the state of mind which is known as enlightenment or Buddhahood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">From then on known as Buddha Shakyamuni, the Enlightened One out of the clan of the Sakyas, he manifested his all-tanscending and allpervasive wisdom\u00a0for 50 year. All the means necessary to liberate from the cycle of sufferings, Samsara. That which we call <strong>Dharma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Buddha taught the <strong>Three Turnings of the Dharma Wheel<\/strong>: for the first time in Deer Park when he manifested the <em>Four Noble Truths<\/em>, known as <strong>Theravada<\/strong>, the second time in Rajgir when he manifested the truth of <em>emptiness and bodhicitta<\/em>, known as <strong>Mahayana<\/strong> and the third time<em> Buddha Nature<\/em>, at different places; the basis for <strong>Vajrayana<\/strong>,\u00a0 the so-called three different levels, also called <b>Three Yanas<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Although very wide and comprehensive, both in scriptures and methods, Buddhism\u00a0roots on the simple virtues of <strong>loving kindness and compassion<\/strong> to become more elaborate and deeper from Yana to Yana. Developing these virtues, peace arises in our mind continuum \u2013 peace for us, for the world, for all sentient beings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Throughout the ages, Buddhism spread and reached many countries, taking on particular styles of life without ever changing in essence.What evolved were not the thousands year old teachings to attain the Absolute. That which changed the appearance of <a href=\"\/en\/mediacenter\/choeje-lama-palmo\/short-notices\/three-jewels-dharma\/\">dharma<\/a> was the respective cultural environment enrichting the teachings so they hence became part of a way of living.<\/p>\n<p>Buddhism came to\u00a0<a href=\"\/en\/about-us\/lineage\/vajrayana\/\"><b>Tibet<\/b>\u00a0<\/a>in the 5th century, tantric Buddhism or Vajrayana, in the 9th century with Guru Rinpoche, both from India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\"><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">excerpted from <\/span><\/i><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201c<a href=\"\/publications\/en\/produkt\/the-himalayas-and-beyond-karma-kagyu-buddhism-in-india-and-nepal\/\">The Himalayas and Beyond<\/a>\u201c<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":34223,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buddha Shakyamuni - Palpung Europe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/buddhism-in-austria\/buddha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buddha Shakyamuni - Palpung Europe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/en\/about-us\/buddhism-in-austria\/buddha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Palpung Europe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-02T11:26:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.palpung.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Buddha.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"717\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/buddhism-in-austria\\\/buddha\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/buddhism-in-austria\\\/buddha\\\/\",\"name\":\"Buddha Shakyamuni - Palpung Europe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-11T23:31:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-02T11:26:36+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/buddhism-in-austria\\\/buddha\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/buddhism-in-austria\\\/buddha\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/buddhism-in-austria\\\/buddha\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/home\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"About us\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Buddhism in Austria\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/about-us\\\/buddhism-in-austria\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Buddha Shakyamuni\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.palpung.eu\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Palpung Europe\",\"description\":\"European Seat of H.H. 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