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	The dates of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain. Within the Eastern Buddhist tradition of [[China]], [[Vietnam]], [[Korea]] and [[Japan]], the traditional date for Buddha's death was 949 [[BCE]], but according to the Ka-tan system of the [[Kalachakra]] tradition, Buddha's death was about 833 BCE.		The dates of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain. Within the Eastern Buddhist tradition of [[China]], [[Vietnam]], [[Korea]] and [[Japan]], the traditional date for Buddha's death was 949 [[BCE]], but according to the Ka-tan system of the [[Kalachakra]] tradition, Buddha's death was about 833 BCE.

	Buddhist texts present two chronologies which have been used to date the lifetime of the Buddha.The "long chronology", from [[Sri Lankese]] chronicles, states the Buddha was born 298 years before Asoka's coronation and died 218 years before the coronation, thus a lifespan of about 80 years. According to these chronicles, Asoka was crowned in 326 BCE, which gives Buddha's lifespan as 624–544 BCE, and are the accepted dates in [[Sri Lanka]] and South-East Asia. Alternatively, most scholars who also accept the long chronology but date Asoka's coronation around 268 BCE (based on Greek evidence) put the Buddha's lifespan later at 566–486 BCE.		Buddhist texts present two chronologies which have been used to date the lifetime of the Buddha.The "long chronology", from [[Sri Lankese]] chronicles, states the Buddha was born 298 years before Asoka's coronation and died 218 years before the coronation, thus a lifespan of about 80 years. According to these chronicles, Asoka was crowned in 326 BCE, which gives Buddha's lifespan as 624–544 BCE, and are the accepted dates in [[Sri Lanka]] and South-East Asia. Alternatively, most scholars who also accept the long chronology but date Asoka's coronation around 268 BCE (based on Greek evidence) put the Buddha's lifespan later at 566–486 BCE.<ref>[https://books.google.com.bd/books?id=BVvFBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Anthony+Tribe%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Buddhist Thought] Williams, Paul (2002). Routledge.[[ISBN]] [[978-0-415-20701-0]]</ref>

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	A couple of centuries after his death, he came to be known by the title Buddha, which means 'Awakened One' or 'Enlightened One'. His teachings were compiled by the Buddhist community in the Vinaya, his codes for monastic practice, and the [[Sutta Piṭaka]], a compilation of teachings based on his discourses. These were passed down in Middle Indo-Aryan dialects through an oral tradition. Later generations composed additional texts, such as systematic treatises known as [[Abhidharma]], biographies of the Buddha, collections of stories about his past lives known as Jataka tales, and additional discourses, i.e., the Mahayana sutras.		A couple of centuries after his death, he came to be known by the title Buddha, which means 'Awakened One' or 'Enlightened One'. His teachings were compiled by the Buddhist community in the Vinaya, his codes for monastic practice, and the [[Sutta Piṭaka]], a compilation of teachings based on his discourses. These were passed down in Middle Indo-Aryan dialects through an oral tradition. Later generations composed additional texts, such as systematic treatises known as [[Abhidharma]], biographies of the Buddha, collections of stories about his past lives known as Jataka tales, and additional discourses, i.e., the Mahayana sutras.

	Buddhism evolved into a variety of traditions and practices, represented by [[Theravada]], [[Mahayana]] and [[Vajrayana]], and spread beyond the Indian subcontinent. While Buddhism declined in [[India]], and mostly disappeared after the 8th century CE due to a lack of popular and economic support, Buddhism is more prominent in Southeast and [[East Asia]].		Buddhism evolved into a variety of traditions and practices, represented by [[Theravada]], [[Mahayana]] and [[Vajrayana]], and spread beyond the Indian subcontinent. While Buddhism declined in [[India]], and mostly disappeared after the 8th century CE due to a lack of popular and economic support, Buddhism is more prominent in Southeast and [[East Asia]].<ref>[https://www.e-reading.link/bookreader.php/134839/The_Origin_of_Buddhist_Meditation.pdf The Origin of Buddhist Meditation] (PDF), Routledge, [[ISBN 978-0-203-96300-5]] ,(PDF)</ref>

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	Buddhist texts present two chronologies which have been used to date the lifetime of the Buddha.The "long chronology", from [[Sri Lankese]] chronicles, states the Buddha was born 298 years before Asoka's coronation and died 218 years before the coronation, thus a lifespan of about 80 years. According to these chronicles, Asoka was crowned in 326 BCE, which gives Buddha's lifespan as 624–544 BCE, and are the accepted dates in [[Sri Lanka]] and South-East Asia. Alternatively, most scholars who also accept the long chronology but date Asoka's coronation around 268 BCE (based on Greek evidence) put the Buddha's lifespan later at 566–486 BCE.		Buddhist texts present two chronologies which have been used to date the lifetime of the Buddha.The "long chronology", from [[Sri Lankese]] chronicles, states the Buddha was born 298 years before Asoka's coronation and died 218 years before the coronation, thus a lifespan of about 80 years. According to these chronicles, Asoka was crowned in 326 BCE, which gives Buddha's lifespan as 624–544 BCE, and are the accepted dates in [[Sri Lanka]] and South-East Asia. Alternatively, most scholars who also accept the long chronology but date Asoka's coronation around 268 BCE (based on Greek evidence) put the Buddha's lifespan later at 566–486 BCE.
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			{{SHORTDESC:Founder of Buddhism}}
	'''Siddhartha Gautama''', also known as [[The Buddha]] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. 'the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in [[South Asia]], 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").<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140827205858/http://www.bdkamerica.org/digital/dbet_t0192_buddhacarita_2009.pdf Willemen, Charles, transl. (2009), ](PDF).</ref>		'''Siddhartha Gautama''', also known as [[The Buddha]] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. 'the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in [[South Asia]], 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").<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140827205858/http://www.bdkamerica.org/digital/dbet_t0192_buddhacarita_2009.pdf Willemen, Charles, transl. (2009), ](PDF).</ref>

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	'''Siddhartha Gautama''', also known as [[The Buddha]] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. 'the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in [[South Asia]], 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").		'''Siddhartha Gautama''', also known as [[The Buddha]] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. 'the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in [[South Asia]], 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").<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140827205858/http://www.bdkamerica.org/digital/dbet_t0192_buddhacarita_2009.pdf Willemen, Charles, transl. (2009), ](PDF).</ref>

	==History==		==History==

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	Buddhism evolved into a variety of traditions and practices, represented by [[Theravada]], [[Mahayana]] and [[Vajrayana]], and spread beyond the Indian subcontinent. While Buddhism declined in [[India]], and mostly disappeared after the 8th century CE due to a lack of popular and economic support, Buddhism is more prominent in Southeast and [[East Asia]].		Buddhism evolved into a variety of traditions and practices, represented by [[Theravada]], [[Mahayana]] and [[Vajrayana]], and spread beyond the Indian subcontinent. While Buddhism declined in [[India]], and mostly disappeared after the 8th century CE due to a lack of popular and economic support, Buddhism is more prominent in Southeast and [[East Asia]].

			==Historical Person==
			Scholars are hesitant to make claims about the historical facts of the Buddha's life. Most of them accept that the Buddha lived, taught, and founded a monastic order during the [[Mahajanapada]], and during the reign of [[Bimbisara]] (his friend, protector, and ruler of the Magadha empire); and died during the early years of the reign of [[Ajatashatru]] (who was the successor of [[Bimbisara]]), thus making him a younger contemporary of Mahavira, the Jain tirthankara.

			There is less consensus on the veracity of many details contained in traditional biographies, as "Buddhist scholars have mostly given up trying to understand the historical person." The earliest versions of Buddhist biographical texts that we have already contain many supernatural, mythical, or legendary elements. In the 19th century, some scholars simply omitted these from their accounts of the life, so that "the image projected was of a Buddha who was a rational, socratic teacher—a great person perhaps, but a more or less ordinary human being". More recent scholars tend to see such demythologisers as remythologisers, "creating a Buddha that appealed to them, by eliding one that did not".

			==Dating==
			The dates of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain. Within the Eastern Buddhist tradition of [[China]], [[Vietnam]], [[Korea]] and [[Japan]], the traditional date for Buddha's death was 949 [[BCE]], but according to the Ka-tan system of the [[Kalachakra]] tradition, Buddha's death was about 833 BCE.

			Buddhist texts present two chronologies which have been used to date the lifetime of the Buddha.The "long chronology", from [[Sri Lankese]] chronicles, states the Buddha was born 298 years before Asoka's coronation and died 218 years before the coronation, thus a lifespan of about 80 years. According to these chronicles, Asoka was crowned in 326 BCE, which gives Buddha's lifespan as 624–544 BCE, and are the accepted dates in [[Sri Lanka]] and South-East Asia. Alternatively, most scholars who also accept the long chronology but date Asoka's coronation around 268 BCE (based on Greek evidence) put the Buddha's lifespan later at 566–486 BCE.

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	'''Siddhartha Gautama''', also known as [[The Buddha]] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. 'the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in [[South Asia]], 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").		'''Siddhartha Gautama''', also known as [[The Buddha]] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. 'the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in [[South Asia]], 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").

			==History==
			According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and severe asceticism, leading to freedom from ignorance, craving, rebirth, and suffering. His core teachings are summarized in the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path, a training of the mind that includes ethical training and kindness toward others, and meditative practices such as sense restraint, mindfulness, dhyana (meditation proper). Another key element of his teachings are the concepts of the five skandhas and dependent origination, describing how all dharmas (both mental states and concrete 'things') come into being, and cease to be, depending on other dharmas, lacking an existence on their own svabhava).

			A couple of centuries after his death, he came to be known by the title Buddha, which means 'Awakened One' or 'Enlightened One'. His teachings were compiled by the Buddhist community in the Vinaya, his codes for monastic practice, and the [[Sutta Piṭaka]], a compilation of teachings based on his discourses. These were passed down in Middle Indo-Aryan dialects through an oral tradition. Later generations composed additional texts, such as systematic treatises known as [[Abhidharma]], biographies of the Buddha, collections of stories about his past lives known as Jataka tales, and additional discourses, i.e., the Mahayana sutras.

			Buddhism evolved into a variety of traditions and practices, represented by [[Theravada]], [[Mahayana]] and [[Vajrayana]], and spread beyond the Indian subcontinent. While Buddhism declined in [[India]], and mostly disappeared after the 8th century CE due to a lack of popular and economic support, Buddhism is more prominent in Southeast and [[East Asia]].

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'''Siddhartha Gautama''', also known as [[The Buddha]] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. 'the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in [[South Asia]], 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").