The name of Sakyamuni, the founder of the Buddhist religion, is familiar enough to most people. But few realize that "Sakya" is the clan into which he was born while "Muni" means a sage, so his name really means "the sage of the Sakya clan."
提起佛教，就令人想到釋迦牟尼，一般人只知其名，卻不清楚這個稱號的意思是﹘﹘釋迦族出身的聖者。