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Buddha
[boo-duh, bood-uh]
noun
Also called Gautama.Also called Butsu.Also called Goutama Buddha.Also called Goutama.Also called Gautama Buddha,.Prince Siddhāttha or Siddhartha, 566?–c480 b.c., Indian religious leader: founder of Buddhism.
any of a series of teachers in Buddhism, of whom Gautama was the last, who bring enlightenment and wisdom.
(sometimes lowercase)a person who has attained full prajna, or enlightenment; Arhat.
buddha
1/ ˈʊə /
noun
Buddhism (often capital) a person who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment
an image or picture of the Buddha
Buddha
2/ ˈʊə /
noun
?563–483 bc , a title applied to Gautama Siddhartha, a nobleman and religious teacher of N India, regarded by his followers as the most recent rediscoverer of the path to enlightenment: the founder of Buddhism
Word History and Origins
Origin of Buddha1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Buddha1
Example Sentences
Waiting our turn, we’re left to contemplate the soles of his feet — a familiar symbol of path-following humility, whether in Andrea Mantegna’s Italian Renaissance painting of a “Dead Christ” or countless Asian sculptures of Buddha.
The auction house Sotheby's has postponed its sale in Hong Kong of hundreds of sacred jewels linked to the Buddha's remains, after a threat of legal action by the Indian government.
The Indian government has threatened to take legal action against Sotheby's in Hong Kong unless they stop an upcoming auction of jewels linked to the Buddha's remains and requested their return to India.
There was also our Buddha statue in the backyard.
They come from a glittering hoard of nearly 1,800 pearls, rubies, topaz, sapphires, and patterned gold sheets, first glimpsed deep inside a brick chamber near the Buddha's birthplace in present-day Uttar Pradesh in India.
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