Gautama
Americannoun
noun
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Siddhartha Gautama spent years seeking the answer to the problem of suffering.
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
Gautama, according to the best authorities, lived in the sixth century before the Christian era, and Sakya in the first century after the birth of our Lord.
From An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Hamilton, Francis
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