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autam Buddha (Shakyamuni Buddha) is believed to have had 550incarnations. Many previous Buddhas and other Buddhas yet to comeare known as Buddhas. To distinguish from all other Buddhhas. Hehas been called Shakyamuni( The lion of Shakya calan), the son ofking Suddhodana and queen mayadevi. Shakyamuni Buddha had attained"Bodhi" or knowledge after 6 years in fasting and meditation andthen he was called " Buddha" as he was " the enlightened one" hedied at age of 80 at Kusinagara. A statue or painting of a Buddhais called in Sanskrit a "Buddharupa, " meaning "the form of anEnlightened One." Buddhists have used such images for thousands ofyears to show how the Truth can be found within oneself through thepractice of meditation and spiritual training. Thus, a statue ofShakyamuni does more than commemorate an historical figure; it is areminder of the spiritual potential inherent within all of us toawaken to the Truth as He, a fellow human being, did. Buddhistsusually place figures of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas on their altars.Bowing and offering incense at these altars expresses both therecognition of the sublime spiritual qualities shown by thesestatues and the aspiration to manifest these same qualities withinourselves.
