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The Lord Buddha
The Lord buddha Siddhattha Gautam Siddhartha Gautam or Shakyamuni was a philosopher, monk, spiritual teacher and religious leader who lived in ancient India. Buddhism was established on the basis of his teachings. It took 45 years for him to teach Buddhism. Their teachings are based on liberation nibbana ,,
where was buddha born
The Buddha was born into a royal family of the Shakya dynasty but eventually renounced all and became a sage. According to Buddhist legends, after years of suffering, meditation and renunciation, he attained enlightenment and understood the mechanism that binds people in the wheel of life and death. The Buddha then traveled all over the Indus-Ganga plain teaching everyone and establishing the Sangha
The Lord buddha taught the Indian Sramana tradition a middle path between sensual pleasure and serious penance. He taught a spiritual path, including moral teachings and meditative skills such as jhyana and sati. The Buddha also opposed the traditions of the Brahmins, such as animal sacrifice
Meaning of the word Buddha
The word Buddha means a person who has attained Bodhi (meaning knowledge) and is considered the greatest enlightened person in Buddhism and is called Sammasambuddha or Samyakasambuddha. He is called Shakyamuni because of his birth in the Shakya clan. He was born in the Gotama clan and after his birth was named Siddhartha, hence his name Siddhartha Gautama Once enlightenment (Bodhi) was attained, he was called Buddha, Gautama Buddha, Mahatma Buddha and Lord Buddha. The true nature of knowledge or Bodhi cannot be described by language and speech but can only be pointed out. That is why Gautama Buddha is also called Tathagata, which means ‘one who has reached there or ‘one who has (knowledge). to have obtained/have obtained,,
Gautam Buddha as a historical figure
It is very difficult to determine the time of the life of the historical Gautama Buddha. Because there is no definite time and date of his birth and death, most scholars believe that Gautama Buddha lived between 563 BC and 483 BC. However, just a few days ago, a possible Buddhist site, the Maya Temple, was excavated at LumbinI which is dated to before 550 BC
Traditional sources
Traditionally, the life of Lord Buddha is described in the Buddhacharita, Lalitvistara Sutra, Mahavastu and Nidankatha. The oldest of these is the Buddhacharitam, believed to be a second century work, an epic poem by Ashwaghosa
Tradition believes that the Lalitavistarasutram was composed in the third century and the Mahavastu in the fourth century. The Abhiniskrama Sutra is the largest biography in the Dharmaguptaka tradition and has several Chinese translations. The Nidankatha is a text of the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka, written by Buddhaghosa in the fifth centuryll