Gautama
Americannoun
noun
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Siddhartha Gautama is accepted by most scholars as the historical figure Shakyamuni Buddha, or sage of the Shakya clan, who was born in Nepal and lived in India around the 5th century BCE.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025
Also called Buddha’s Enlightenment Day, it commemorates when Siddhartha Gautama attained awakening — or enlightenment — some 2,600 years ago, becoming the Buddha.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Currently, Gautama Buddha and Pokhara have a combined traffic of 80-85 domestic flights per day.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2023
Pali was and still is the common tongue of the Magadha region, where Prince Siddhartha Gautama lived a life of luxury before renouncing wealth to attain enlightenment.
From Salon • May 21, 2023
The Buddha Gautama discovered and offered to man a way of salvation in which the efficient power was not an external, personal power, but an indwelling, psychic principle.
From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by Leuba, James H. (James Henry)
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