The Buddha (World of Darkness)

==Summary==
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, the Enlightened One, is the founder of Buddhism. The Buddha founded his religion with a sermon entitled "The turning of the Wheel of Law" to five disciples. From this humble beginning grew a religion that would spread from his native home of India all the way to the Middle Kingdom and beyond. That first sermon contained the core of his philosophy, the Four Noble Truths:
The first, the World is full of suffering, the second, suffering is caused by human desire, the third, renunciation of desire is the way to salvation, and the fourth, salvation, Nirvana, is the Eightfold Path. The strictures of the Eightfold Path are difficult for humans and nearly impossible for vampires; the rigors of adhering to the tenets of right knowledge, right aspiration, right speech, right behavior, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right meditation require the full, undistracted focus of the mind and body.
The Buddha rejected the Brahmin's emphasis on ritual sacrifice as an unnecessary distraction and likewise rejected the caste system. The wisdom and open nature of his teaching brought him astounding numbers of followers in a very short time, especially for those castes that were repressed or undervalued in the traditional system. 
==Powers and Stats==
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Key: Other Avatars | The Trikaya | True Buddha-Nature
Name: Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha, Buddha, Shakyamuni, Lord Buddha, the Enlightened One | The Triat, The Weaver, The Wyrm, The Wyld | Varies 
Origin: World of Darkness 
Gender: Varies | As the Weaver is referred to as Female, while the Wyrm is referred to as Male and the Wyld is without gender | Inapplicable, though referred to as Male
Age: Not Applicable | Roughly 2500 years old
Classification: Buddha, Blessed lord, Sage of the Shakyas, Most Honoured One, Perfectly Enlightened One, Honourable One, World-Honoured One, 
Powers and Abilities:
*Superhuman Physical Characteristics
**Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 8 & 9)
*Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2)
**Abstract Existence (Types 1 & 2)
***Avatar Creation
***Acausality (Type 4) & Transduality (Type 3)
**Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1 - All Gods and Divine beings may manifest Quintessence which is the sea of infinite energyMage The Ascension (Revised), pg. 179 that fuels the latticework of all Creation,Mage The Ascension (20th Anniversary Edition), pg. 79 existing as "the archetype of all things"Mage The Ascension (Revised), pg. 127 and a "perfected model of reality"Order of Hermes (Revised), pg. 63 from which everything in the Tellurian originates, and to which it will eventually return,Mage The Ascension, pg. 65 with even the element of Spirit, which comprises the whole of the Umbra,Mage The Ascension (Revised), pg. 185 being simply a reduced form of itMage The Ascension (Revised), pg. 145)
**Nonexistent Physiology (Type 2 - Sees all creation of Unreality)
***Omniscience & Cosmic Awareness
*Magic
**Information Manipulation (Magic is described as being akin to "the keyboard of Reality," which Mages as a whole access in order to hack at its underlying code)
*Reality Warping
**Soul Manipulation
**SpaceTime Manipulation
**Vector Manipulation
**Power Nullification
**Probability Manipulation
**Matter Manipulation (Quantum)
***Quantum Manipulation
**Causality Manipulation
**Law Manipulation
**Life and Death Manipulation
**Mind Manipulation (The Epiphamies are the source of all human thought and mental activity, and altering them in any way often causes intellectual turmoil in the material world)
**Creation
**Curse Manipulation
**Darkness Manipulation
**Dream Manipulation & Fate Manipulation
**Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (Uncountably Infinite-D)
**Holy Manipulation
Attack Potency: Varies, up to Boundless (Before being enlightened, Siddhartha Gautama was unable to be moved by the Lord of Darkness, Mara) | Boundless (The Trikaya manifestations of the Buddha are in fact simply the Triat, which are Supernal entities, existing outside of the Time and Space of the Tellurian, having created the Tellurian and existing as fundamental aspects of it such as Meaning and Definition itself) | Boundless (Founder of the Dharma, the ultimate realisation that Self and other, natural and supernatural, profane and divine are but arbitrary conceptions. The Buddha himself surpassed all the Gods by achieving perfect enlightenment, surpassing beings such as Jehovah, Bondye and other beings that created their own Tellurian, which encompasses the Etherspace that contains and transcends the Epiphamies of Earth's Shard Realm, as well as the void of the Deep Umbra. Surpasses the likes of the Jade Emperor who both embodies all creation and who commands other Gods such as Celestines, Incarna and the Dragon Kings. Transcends the Consensus hierarchy (Samsāra), a recursive hierarchy of Greater consensuses containing the world as we know it, each consensus being described as containing the other, turtles all the way down)
Speed: Omnipresent (Exists as the Manifestation of Order, Change and Destruction everywhere) | Omnipresent (Through the Dharma, one understands the Illusion of difference and nothing is different from ones own intrinsic nature)
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable 
Striking Strength: Varies, up to Boundless |Boundless | Boundless
Durability: Varies, up to Boundless | Boundless | Boundless
Stamina: Infinite | Infinite | Infinite 
Range: Varies, up to Boundless | Boundless | Boundless 
Standard Equipment: None notable 
Intelligence: Incomprehensible (Mere Avatars of the Buddha exist completely beyond the parameters of Human intelligence, and lack such concepts like "thinks, wants, desires," or even having personalities, their actions are so beyond that asking "why" becomes meaningless, as nobody could comprehend the answer) 
Weaknesses: None notable
==Notable Matchups==
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