diff --git a/buddha.md b/buddha.md
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 - A [[person]].
   - [[philosopher]] [[role model]].
-  - [[pull]] [[buddha nature]].
+  - [[pull]] [[buddha nature]] [[shakyamuni]].
   - I consider myself a [[rational]] [[buddhist]].
   - [[meta]] 
     - Ha, I can't believe I hadn't noded him until [[2020-12-11]].
diff --git a/journal/2021-11-20.md b/journal/2021-11-20.md
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   - this slipped my mind somehow :) twitter embeds are broken. I think because of a fix to an org mode bug/interaction with my hacky hacky code.
   - shouldn't take long to fix.
 - [[buddha]]
+  - [[shakyamuni]]
 - [[sadalsvvd]]
diff --git a/shakyamuni.md b/shakyamuni.md
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+# shakyamuni
+
+- [[pull]] [[buddha shakyamuni]] [[gautama buddha]] [[siddharta gautama]] [[siddhattha gotama]]
+