Buddha | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-09

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00:01:38 1 Historical Siddhārtha Gautama
00:03:34 1.1 Historical context
00:07:14 1.2 Earliest sources
00:09:53 2 Traditional biographies
00:10:04 2.1 Biographical sources
00:12:09 2.2 Nature of traditional depictions
00:16:24 3 Biography
00:16:34 3.1 Conception and birth
00:20:35 3.2 Early life and marriage
00:22:10 3.3 Renunciation and ascetic life
00:24:26 3.4 Awakening
00:27:53 3.5 Formation of the sangha
00:29:30 3.6 Travels and teaching
00:34:58 3.7 Mahaparinirvana (Death)
00:41:14 3.8 Relics
00:41:49 4 Physical characteristics
00:44:46 5 Nine virtues
00:46:16 6 Teachings
00:46:25 6.1 Use of Brahmanical motifs
00:47:13 6.2 Tracing the oldest teachings
00:48:31 6.3 iDhyana/i and insight
00:49:06 6.4 Earliest Buddhism
00:52:12 6.5 Later developments
00:53:26 7 Other religions
00:55:49 8 Depiction in arts and media
00:57:24 8.1 Painting
00:57:37 9 See also



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Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama (सिद्धार्थ गौतम) in Sanskrit or Siddhāttha Gotama (शिद्धत्थ गोतम) in Pali , Shakyamuni (i.e. "Sage of the Shakyas") Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was a monk (śramaṇa), mendicant, and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the northeastern part of ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the śramaṇa movement common in his region. He later taught throughout other regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala.Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism. He is believed by Buddhists to be an enlightened teacher who attained full Buddhahood and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering. Accounts of his life, discourses and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarised after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.