Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia (the Himalayan foothils of present-day Nepal and the eastern Ganges plain of northern India), during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic. After leading a life of mendicancy, asceticism, and meditation, he attained nirvana at Bodh Gaya in what is now India. The Buddha then wandered through the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain, teaching and building a monastic order. Buddhist tradition holds he died in Kushinagar and reached parinirvana ("final release from conditioned existence").
Other uses include:
Arts and entertainment
edit- Buddha (album), by Blink-182, 1994
- Buddha (manga), by Osamu Tezuka, 1972–1983
- A Buddha, a 2005 Argentine film
- Buddha (2007 film) or Gautama Buddha, an Indian film
- The Buddha (2010 film), an American television documentary film
- Buddha (TV series), a 2013 Indian historical drama series
Other uses
edit- Buddha Air, a Nepalese airline
- Buddha, Indiana, an unincorporated community in the United States
See also
edit- Bodhi (disambiguation)
- Bodh (disambiguation)
- Budda (disambiguation)
- Buda (disambiguation), other uses of the term Buda
- Buda, western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest
- Buddha Temple, a summit in the Grand Canyon
- Buddah Records, an American record label
- Budha, a Sanskrit word that connotes the planet Mercury, or deity in Hinduism and Hindu astrology
- Budai, a Chinese monk venerated as Maitreya Buddha and often confused with Siddhartha Gautama
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