Śakra

शक्र sa བརྒྱ་བྱིན། (ནང་བསྟན།) bo 帝釋天 zh

Deva and heavenly king in Buddhism; lord of the heavenly realm Trāyastriṃśa; regarded as king of the gods and wielder of the thunderbolt

A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.

Accounts kept apart

Overview

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Connections

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

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What this means

One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.

Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification

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Sources

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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