The Buddha

Cultural  

1. A prince, originally named Gautama, who lived in India several hundred years before Jesus. After years of solitary contemplation, he began to teach a religion of self-denial and universal brotherhood. (See Buddhism.)

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Example Sentences

The Buddha -- who renounced material wealth to embrace and preach a life of non-attachment -- founded a religion that now has more than 500 million adherents.

From Barron's • Jan. 3, 2026

The Buddha survived, but the coral tree that shaded it was gone.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

The Buddha suggests that we work with the fundamental dissatisfaction we feel by releasing craving, and attuning to the sensory richness of the present moment.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2024

Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia writer, is also sharing a recent traumatic experience with his book, Shattered, about the fall he suffered at the end of 2022 which left him paralysed.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2023

Yes, it was he, and they followed him and watched him The Buddha went quietly on his way, lost in thought His peaceful countenance was neither happy nor sad.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse