5 results for “गौतम बुद्ध”
Siddhartha Gautama was a historical religious teacher associated with the Shakya community. Buddhist tradition connects his birth with Lumbini, enlightenment with Bodh Gaya, first sermon with Sarnath and Mahaparinirvana with Kushinagar. His path rejected both sensual indulgence and extreme self-mortification in favour of the Middle Way.
Buddhism developed into many schools and traditions. Hinayana is a later polemical term and is not an exact synonym for Theravada. Theravada preserves the Pali canonical tradition, while Mahayana strongly developed the Bodhisattva ideal, additional sutras and major philosophical traditions.
Buddhist traditions remember a series of councils concerned with preserving the Buddha's teachings and monastic discipline. The First is associated with Rajagriha, the Second with Vaishali and the Theravada account of the Third with Pataliputra under Ashoka. The term Fourth Council refers to different events in different Buddhist traditions.
Buddhism spread from northern India to Sri Lanka, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and Tibet. Royal patronage, trade routes, monasteries, travelling monks, translation movements and local adaptation all played major roles in this expansion.
By around the sixth century BCE, a number of large territorial states known as Mahajanapadas had emerged across northern India and adjoining regions. The Anguttara Nikaya preserves a famous list of sixteen. Magadha, Kosala, Vatsa and Avanti became major powers, while polities such as Vajji followed forms of gana-sangha political organisation.
