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Gotama

/ ˈɡəʊtəmə /

noun

  1. the Pali form of the name Gautama
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Whisk—and where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus?

I picked up a copy of Ifukube’s late, 40-minute symphonic ode “Gotama the Buddha,” but, this being 2014, I will have to wait until I’m home to hear it.

Once, when both youths had lived with the Samanas about three years and shared their practices, they heard from many sources a rumor, a report Someone had appeared, called Gotama, the Illustrious, the Buddha.

His enemies and doubters, however, said that this Gotama was an idle fraud; he passed his days in high living, scorned the sacrifices, was unlearned and knew neither practices nor mortification of the flesh.

He had heard that this alleged Buddha had formerly been an ascetic and had lived in the woods, had then turned to high living and the pleasures of the world, and he held no brief for this Gotama.

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