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Definition of Gautama buddha

1. Noun. Founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gautama Buddha

Literary usage of Gautama buddha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"According to Indian belief there have been many such Buddhas; gautama buddha is only the latest one of a series. But it is doubtful if he himself accepted ..."

2. History of India by Romesh Chunder Dutt, Vincent Arthur Smith, A. V. Williams Jackson, Stanley Lane-Poole, Henry Miers Elliot, William Wilson Hunter, Alfred Comyn Lyall (1906)
"CHAPTER XXVIII DOCTRINES OF gautama buddha IT is not possible, within the limits of a single chapter, to give our readers anything like a complete summary ..."

3. Eleven Years in Ceylon: Comprising Sketches of the Field Sports and Natural by Jonathan Forbes, George Turnour (1841)
"THE religion of Ceylon is properly that of gautama buddha; but his moral system is there found to be conjoined with the ancient superstitions of the ..."

4. The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest by Esther Singleton (1916)
"... I gautama buddha (BC 623—543) TW RHYS-DAVIDS The birth of ' T was at Kapilavastu, a few days' journey north of Benares, that in the Fifth Century, BC, ..."

5. The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest by Esther Singleton (1916)
"... gautama buddha (BC 623-543) TW RHYS-DAVIDS The birth ot * IT was at Kapilavastu, a few days' journey north of Benares, that in the Fifth Century, BC, ..."

6. A Dictionary of the Päli Language by Robert Cæsar Childers (1875)
"Gotamo Buddho, gautama buddha (Mah. 2). ... one named gautama buddha shall be born (Dh. 130). Unconverted brahmins in addressing Buddha called him simply ..."

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