
Gautam Buddha
Gautam Buddha
Buddha, (Sanskrit: “Awakened One”) clan name (Sanskrit) Gautama or (Pali) Gotama, individual name (Sanskrit) Siddhartha or (Pali) Siddhattha, (born c. sixth – fourth century BCE, Lumbini, close to Kapilavastu, Shakya republic, Kosala realm [now in Nepal]—died, Kusinara, Malla republic, Magadha realm [now Kasia, India]), the founder of Buddhism, one of the significant religions and philosophical systems of southern and eastern Asia and of the world. Buddha is one of the numerous appellations of a teacher who lived in northern India at some point between the sixth and the fourth century before the Common Era.