Gautama
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noun
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Also called Buddha’s Enlightenment Day, it commemorates when Siddhartha Gautama attained awakening — or enlightenment — some 2,600 years ago, becoming the Buddha.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Currently, Gautama Buddha and Pokhara have a combined traffic of 80-85 domestic flights per day.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2023
In “Such Kindness,” Andre Dubus III offers Tom as an angry Siddhartha Gautama, the pre-enlightenment Buddha, resentful and grieving all that he has lost and as yet unaware of any path forward.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023
Pali was and still is the common tongue of the Magadha region, where Prince Siddhartha Gautama lived a life of luxury before renouncing wealth to attain enlightenment.
From Salon • May 21, 2023
The ideal of Thomas � Kempis, in spite of its beauty, is no more that of Jesus than was the ideal of Gautama.
From The Making of an Apostle by Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John)
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