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  2. The Buddha - Wikipedia

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    Christ and Buddha by Paul Ranson, 1880. The Christian saint Josaphat is based on the Buddha. The name comes from the Sanskrit Bodhisattva via Arabic Būdhasaf and Georgian Iodasaph. [444] The only story in which St. Josaphat appears, Barlaam and Josaphat, is based on the life of the Buddha. [445]

  3. Family of Gautama Buddha - Wikipedia

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    [35] [36] The final period of the Buddha's life also shows that Ānanda is still very much attached to the Buddha's person, and he witnesses the Buddha's passing with great sorrow. [37] Shortly after the Buddha's death, the First Council is convened, and Ānanda manages to attain enlightenment just before the council starts, which is a ...

  4. Buddhahood - Wikipedia

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    The fourth Buddha, Dīpankara, is especially important, as he was the Buddha who gave niyatha vivarana (prediction of future Buddhahood) to the Brahmin youth who would in the distant future become the bodhisattva Gautama Buddha. [95] After Dīpankara, 25 more noble people (ariya-puggala) would attain enlightenment before Gautama, the historical ...

  5. Rāhula - Wikipedia

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    [9] [45] After the Buddha had a meal, Rāhula followed the Buddha and asked him for his inheritance. [17] The Buddha did not try to prevent Rāhula from following him, [48] but in some versions of the story, some women from the court did try to, yet Rāhula persisted. [49] He then looked at his father and says, "Pleasant is your shadow, recluse ...

  6. Maya (mother of the Buddha) - Wikipedia

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    Although sometimes shown in other scenes from her life, such as having a dream foretelling her pregnancy with Gautama Buddha or with her husband King Śuddhodana seeking prophecies about their son's life, shortly after his birth, she is most often depicted whilst giving birth to Gautama, an event that is generally accepted to have taken place in Lumbini in modern-day Terai.

  7. Ten principal disciples - Wikipedia

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    Pippali later met the Buddha, under whom he was ordained as a monk, named Kāśyapa, [45] but later called Mahākāśyapa to distinguish him from other disciples. [46] Mahākāśyapa became an important disciple of the Buddha, to the extent that the Buddha exchanged his robe with him, which was a symbol of the transmittance of the Buddhist ...

  8. Asita - Wikipedia

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    Asita or Kaladevala or Kanhasiri was a hermit ascetic depicted in Buddhist sources as having lived in ancient India.He was a teacher and advisor of Suddhodana, a sage and seer, the father of the Buddha, and is best known for having predicted that prince Siddhartha of Kapilavastu would either become a great chakravartin or become a supreme religious leader; Siddhartha was later known as Gautama ...

  9. Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Early texts have the Buddha's family name as "Gautama" (Pali: Gotama), while some texts give Siddhartha as his surname. He was born in Lumbini, present-day Nepal and grew up in Kapilavastu, [note 3] a town in the Ganges Plain, near the modern Nepal–India border, and he spent his life in what is now modern Bihar [note 4] and Uttar Pradesh.