Buddha – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Buddha
n.
(born Siddhartha Gautama) Nepali religious leader and the founder of Buddhism (c.563-c.483 BC); spiritual teacher; person who has reached full enlightenment
Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha, also known as
Siddhartha Gautama,
Shakyamuni, or simply the
Buddha, was a
sage on whose teachings
Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the eastern part of the
Indian subcontinent sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries
BCE.
Buddha
Noun
1. founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)
(synonym) the Buddha, Siddhartha, Gautama, Gautama Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha
(hypernym) mystic, religious mystic
2. one who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment
(hypernym) saint, holy man, holy person, angel
Buddha
n.
Buddha, Indian religious leader and the founder of Buddhism; Indian spiritual teacher; person who has reached full enlightenment
Buddha
(n.)
The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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