Shakya, transliteration of the Sanskrit word Sakyamuni, founder of Buddhism. Shakya is the name of an ancient Indian tribe meaning "able"; "Muni" can be translated as "Wen", which is an honorific title, containing the meanings of "ren, Confucian, silent, forbearant", etc., and the meaning can also be synthesized into "Nengren", "Nengren", "Nengren", "Nengru", "Nenglone", etc., meaning the saint of the Shakya tribe. The festival of Vesak, which commemorates the birth, enlightenment and nirvana of Buddha Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, is an official holiday of the United Nations.
Born in 623 BC, Gautama Siddhartha was originally the crown prince of the Shakya Kingdom, and at the age of twenty-nine he became a monk and practiced meditation from the famous Shamen Arokarama and Udhagarama at that time. Soon he reached everything they taught, but it did not satisfy his desires, and after six years of hard practice, in a night meditation, he went through the four realms of Zena in turn, and then continued to concentrate and do his best, and on that night he realized the truth of life and achieved enlightenment. From then on, he was known as the Buddha. He also preached everywhere and organized the Sangha until his death in 543 BC. Abbreviated as "Shakya".
Shakyamuni Buddha was born into an aristocratic family in India, surnamed Gautama, his name was Siddhartha, and his father was King Johan, who was the hereditary king of the Kapila kingdom at that time. When Shakyamuni was born, he would walk, and when he reached seven steps, he pointed to the sky and the other to the ground, saying: "Heaven and the world, only I am respected", this solipsistic "I" does not refer to the Buddha himself, but teaches all people to go to heaven on their heads, be down-to-earth, respect their spiritual teachings, and master the keys of their own destiny.
Just as the Buddha was speaking, suddenly the rain was fragrant and the nine dragons spit out water, so on this day, some temple monks would use licorice tea to make bath Buddha water, also known as fragrant soup, imitating this scene as a Shakya statue bath, so it is called Buddha washing festival (Chinese called bathing Buddha festival). The ritual of bathing the Buddha is usually held in a Buddhist hall or in an open-air pure place. The way to bathe the Buddha is to set up a small bath pavilion in front of the temple, the pavilion is dedicated to the small statue of Shakya, and the Buddha water is stored next to it, the Buddha water is made of medicinal herbs, there is licorice, passion herbs, etc., and the believers drink it every time they are poured with water.
One day, when he was traveling to the four gates of the southeast, southwest and northwest, he saw the elderly, the sick, the dead, and the ascetics; I also saw insects being eaten by birds under trees in the countryside, and birds being pecked by eagles, and I felt quite shocked and shocked in my heart, and thus experienced the sufferings of life, old age, illness and death in the world, so I became a monk and realized (the date of ordination is the eighth day of the first month of February, so this day is called Buddha Renunciation Day). After years of practice and hard thinking, he finally comprehended the philosophy of "all actions are impermanent, all laws are selfless, and everything is empty", and finally achieved positive results, and began 45 years of missionary activities, inspiring the minds of the world.
The objects of Shakya's mission, including all strata of society at that time, many royal families and rich people gave him great political and economic support, and later the increasing number of believers replaced the original religion in India, established a huge Buddhist sangha, and transformed countless monks and lay disciples, so that they could find an eternal basis in life. The Buddhist ideology and culture conveyed by him have long become a mainstream of oriental culture through generations, and have left rich cultural treasures for world history.
In the early days of his mission, Shakya traveled widely and had no fixed place to live, but later in order to adapt to the rainy season and gatherings, he established a monastery, and later formulated the precepts that the monks observed, which is the origin of today's monasteries.
Shakya died at the age of eighty and finally died in a dense forest by the river outside the city of Naga (present-day Gashya, United State of India). After the death of Shakya, the body was cremated, and the Buddhist relics (bones) were distributed to the messengers of various countries, regarded as holy relics, and pagodas were built to worship.