Knowra The Buddha The Buddha Siddhartha Gautama was an ancient Indian spiritual teacher whose teachings became the basis of Buddhism. Buddhist traditions honor him as an awakened teacher who showed a path to liberation from suffering.
Four Noble Truths : The Buddha’s framework describing suffering, its origin, its cessation, and a path to its cessation. This is the central diagnosis and prescription attributed to his first teaching.
Birth of the Buddha : The traditional account of Siddhartha Gautama’s birth to the Shakya royal family at Lumbini. His birth stories establish the setting and extraordinary expectations surrounding his life.
Early Buddhism : The earliest recoverable forms of Buddhist teaching and community after the Buddha’s death. It offers a historical frame for teachings attributed to Gautama.
Maitreya : The future Buddha expected in Buddhist traditions to appear when the teachings of Gautama have disappeared. Unlike Gautama, Maitreya’s awakening and teaching belong to a future age.
Noble Eightfold Path : A Buddhist training path of eight interrelated practices in wisdom, ethical conduct, and mental discipline. It lays out the practical discipline associated with the Buddha’s route to awakening.
Four Sights : The traditional Buddhist account of encounters with an old person, a sick person, a corpse, and an ascetic. These encounters are said to have prompted his departure from palace life.
Pali Canon : The collection of scriptures preserved in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, written in Pali. Its discourses preserve extensive accounts of the Buddha’s teachings and life.
Amitabha : A celestial Buddha central to Pure Land traditions, associated with the western Pure Land of Sukhavati. Amitabha represents a distinct devotional focus from the historical Gautama.
Nirvana : In Buddhism, liberation from the causes of suffering and repeated rebirth. The Buddha taught liberation as the end toward which practice is directed.
Great Renunciation : Siddhartha Gautama’s traditional departure from family and princely life to seek liberation. It marks the decisive turn from privilege toward spiritual searching.
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