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One who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment
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Buddha \Bud"dha\, n. [Skr. buddha wise, sage, 'the enlightened' fr. budh to know.] The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom. The title of Siddhartha or Gautama, a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists and the founder ...
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Usage examples of buddha.
Its aestheticism, exclusivity, and promise of realizing through arcane practices the buddha nature in this life were irresistible to the courtiers.
Hope said he had always wanted to be like Asoka, and mentioned the four great truths Buddha spoke of: existence is suffering, the origin of suffering is desire, suffering ceases when desire ceases, and the way to reach the end of desire was to follow the Eightfold Path.
Buddha is arrived at by adding together two numbers, one being the date of the accession of Asoka to the throne, the second being the length of the interval between that date and that of the death of the Buddha.
Joshua of Nazereth, Mohammed, even Vishnu in his ninth avatara as the Buddha.
Mahayana was accompanied both by a tendency to regard the Buddha as a transcendent, rather than earthly, being and by adulation for the bodhisattva, or Buddha-to-be, who would assist others on the path to Buddhahood.
The pattern of their striving was the career of the historical Buddha as a bodhisattva in his numerous previous lives: in each was performed some act of pre-eminent charity and self-sacrifice by which merit was accumulated and the entitlement to full Enlightenment was brought nearer.
Sanskrit, meaning he awakes, is enlightened, and thus Bodhisattva, and Buddha.
Buddha emerged out of Brahmanism, which may also have given elements to early Judaism and thence to Christianity.
The modified Brahminism after Buddha, in connection with the worship of Vishnu and Siva.
You may be a sincere follower of the Buddha, but what if that allegiance should prove in the end to be mistaken?
Examples of these were Father Abraham, who was of the Chaldees, and was entrusted with the secret teachings and doctrines laid down by the Babylonians of old Moses, Jacob, Quetzalcoatl, Mohammed, Buddha and many others.
Taoist religion is in many ways the opposite of Confucianism, though it still shares many similarities with Aristotle and the Buddha.
Buddha, leaning slightly forward, the Dalai Lama was sitting on a throne covered with costly brocade.
Dalai Lama to Kalimpong, east of Darjeeling, in order to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the manifestation of Buddha, Tsarong remained in India.
Indra, from the meanest worm to the supreme Buddha, constitute one fraternal race, by the unavoidable effects of the law of retribution constantly interchanging their residences in a succession of rising and sinking existences, ranging through all the earths, heavens, and hells of the universe, bound by the terrible links of merit and demerit in the phantasmagoric dungeon of births and deaths.