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Buddha

སངས་​རྒྱས།

[Skt. Siddhartha]

or "one who accomplishes his purpose"; later known as རྒྱལ་​སྲས་​དོན་​དྲུབ། Prince Siddhartha; and after his enlightenment, སངས་​རྒྱས། . The Buddha lived at roughly the same time as Jesus' ancestor Zerubbabel and Cyrus the Persian; his life probably began before and ended after the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. Honorific titles attached to him and to his non-historical counterparts include: ཀུན་​མཁྱེན། all-knowing, ཀུན་​ཏུ་​བཟང་​པོ། good to all, རྐང་​གཉིས་​གཙོ་​བོ། lord of men, སྐུ་​གསུམ་​པ། three-bodied, ཁྱབ་​བདག all-pervading, རྒྱལ་​བ། conqueror, མངོན་​ཤེས་​དྲུག་​ལྡན། possessor of the six foreknowledges, བཅོམ་​ལྡན་​འདས། transcendent victor, ཆགས་​འཇོམས། desire-subduer, འཇིག་​རྟེན་​འདུལ། world-tamer, སྟོན་​པ། teacher, སྟོབས་​བཅུ་​བ། having ten powers, ཐམས་​ཅད་​མཁྱེན། all-perceiving, ཐམས་​ཅད་​སྒྲོལ། all-saving, ཐམས་​ཅད་​རྟོགས། all-knowing, ཐམས་​ཅད་​གཟིགས། all-seeing, དུས་​གསུམ་​མཁྱེན། knowing the three times, བདུད་​འདུལ། devil-subduer, བདེ་​གཤེགས། gone to nirvana, སངས་​རྒྱས་​དཀོན་​མཆོག Buddha jewel; portion of the triple refuge. Non-historical Buddhas include འཇམ་​དཔལ། Manjushri, སྤྱན་​རས་​གཟིགས། Chenresi, ཕྱག་​ན་​རྡོ་​རྗེ། Vajrapani.