Buddha
बुद्ध
From Sanskrit buddha, "awakened, enlightened", from the verb root budh, "to wake, to understand".
Meaning and origin
Buddha, "the awakened one", is the title given to Siddhartha Gautama, the teacher whose life and doctrine became the foundation of Buddhism around the fifth century BCE, and, in Buddhist cosmology, to a handful of other…
How to pronounce Buddha
| Hindi | BOOD-dhuh /ˈbud̪d̪ʱə/ |
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