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Figure Buddhist traditions
The Buddha
𑀲𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀥𑀢𑁆𑀣 𑀕𑁄𑀢𑀫 pi गौतम बुद्धः sa སྟོན་པ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ། bo
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
- Child of Śuddhodana and Maya
- Married to Yaśodharā
- Dated 1st millennium BCE
- Recognised as Thaumaturge
In brief
The Buddha refers here to Siddhartha Gautama, whose teachings stand at the origin of Buddhism. Buddhist accounts of his life include renunciation, awakening and teaching; the Met’s overview follows these themes and their expression in art.
An image made centuries later tells us about how a community represented and remembered the Buddha. Early Indian art could indicate his presence with a sign rather than a human figure, while later traditions developed many figurative forms. The image’s making and the life it depicts belong on different clocks.
Sources: The Met: Buddhism and Buddhist Art
Overview
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)Wikidata record description. Read The Buddha in the Wikipedia reader.
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Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
Family tree
As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.
The family as a list · 8
Kinship in an account 1
Family 7
- child of (child) Maya queen; mother of the Buddha
- child of (child) Śuddhodana King of Shakya Kingdom
- of the house family of Gautama Buddha family of the founder of Buddhism
- parent of (father) Rāhula son of the Śākyamuni Buddha
- sibling of Sundarānanda Half-brother of Gautama Buddha
- sibling of Sundari Nanda Half-sister of Gautama Buddha
- married to Yaśodharā Wife of Prince Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha)
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 2
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The Buddha Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE) 
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
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Connections
Affiliation 1
Succession in office 2
Identification 3
Documented influence 6
- was influenced by Dīpankara Buddha figure of Buddhist mythology, one of the Buddhas of the past
- influenced Ashoka Mauryan emperor from 268 to 232 BCE
- influenced Leo Tolstoy Russian author (1828–1910)
- influenced Mahatma Gandhi Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
- influenced Marpa Chokyi Lodro Tibetan Buddhist teacher
- influenced Rahul Sankrityayan Indian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
Recorded events and days 1
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