Muni (Saint)

The words "Bu-dha" (the Buddha) and "Sa-kya-mu-nī " ("Sage of the Shakyas") in the Brahmi script, on Ashoka's Rummindei Minor Pillar Edict (circa 250 BCE).

Muni (Sanskrit मुनि , "silent",[1] the "Mauna" - pause) – a term for types of indian sages and hermits or indian ascetics.[2] The sages of this type do not possess the knowledge of the truth of existence on the basis of science texts but through self-realization.[3]

Buddhism

In Buddhism the term "Muni" is used as a title of Gautama Buddha, who being born among the tribe of the Shakyas, is called Sakyamuni (sage of the Shakyas).[4]

Hinduism

  • In Rigveda name muni refer to ekstatyków known Vedic Rishi, however prosperous beyond orthodoxy ritualistic Brahmanism [5]
  • In a much later work Laghujogawasisztha [6] munich divided into two types :
  1. kaszthatapaswinów - ascetics permanently residing in stillness
  2. Jivanmukta - liberated for life in a physical body

See also

References

  1. ↑ Marta Kudelska: Dlaczego istnieje raczej "Ja" niż "to"?
  2. ↑ Muni.
  3. ↑ Marta Kudelska: Dlaczego istnieje raczej "Ja" niż "to"?
  4. ↑ Jr, Robert E. Buswell; Jr, Donald S. Lopez (2013). The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton University Press. p. 741. ISBN 9781400848058.
  5. ↑ Muni.
  6. ↑ ( 6.7.3 )
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