The Buddha ( World of Darkness )

## The Bouddha

> Drahma is the final realization that Self and other, natural and supernatural, profane and divine, are but arbitrary divisions. The sage stands at the centre. Listening to Meru’s song, he is like the first mountain itself, the centre of a lotus from which the cosmos unfolds. Meru is the symbol for the Absolute, the Buddha nature and the eternal principle of Drahma that underlies the world of illusion. Their patron, Tiger, smashes down barriers and illuminates the universe of possibilities, while tearing away the “truths” that hide an even more profound vision of the Absolute.
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## 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 behaviour, 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

**Tier:** 0 | Varies, up to High 1-A

**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:** Inapplicable, though referred to as Male | As the Weaver is referred to as Female, while the Wyrm is referred to as Male and the Wyld is without gender | Varies

**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, Abstract Existence (Type 2), Immortality (Type 1, 2, 3, 8, 9), Transduality (Type 3), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1: All Gods and Divine beings may manifest Quintessence which is the sea of infinite energy Mage The Ascension (Revised), 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 it Mage The Ascension (Revised), pg. 145), Nonexistent Physiology (Type 2: Sees all creation of Unreality.]), Abstract Existence (Type 1), Acausality (Type 5), Avatar Creation, Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2), Causality Manipulation, Cosmic Awareness, Creation, Curse Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Immortality (Type 9), 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), Law Manipulation, Life Manipulation and Death Manipulation, Magic, Matter 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), Omniscience, Power Nullification, Probability Manipulation, Quantum Manipulation, Reality Warping, Soul Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Vector Manipulation

**Speed:** **Omnipresent** ( Through the Drahma, one understands the Illusion of difference and nothing is different from ones own intrinsic nature.]) | **Omnipresent** (Exists as the Manifestation of Order, Change and Destruction everywhere.)

**Lifting Strength: Immeasurable**

**Striking Strength: Boundless | Boundless | Varies, up to High Outerverse level**

**Durability: Boundless** | **Boundless** | **Varies**, up to **High Outerverse level**

**Stamina:** Infinite | Infinite | Infinite

**Range:** Boundless | Boundless | Varies, up to High Outerversal

**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

**Key:** **True Buddha-Nature** | **The Trikaya** | **Other Avatars**